A classic Chianti that needs some bottle age. Ruby colour; dry, savoury, cherry and sage leaf nose; well-extracted fruit, round and full on the palate with a dry, savoury finish and ripe tannins. Hold for two years.
It’s Thursday, and the weekend is fast approaching. Need stuff to see or do? We’ve got you covered. In this edition: a mysterious film screening, a feast to fight cancer, a gathering of the undead and more.
World MasterCard Fashion Week is in full force, and as per usual, all of society came out to play for Pink Tartan. Catherine Nugent laughed it up with friends, Suzanne Rogers looked her usual wide-eyed self alongside Glen Dixon, and Elisha Cuthbert caused a pre-show media ruckus.
Rob Ford has been the mayor of Toronto for close to three years now, and in that time he’s been lambasted, lampooned and ridiculed by the best of them. So if you’re looking to have a little fun at the mayor’s expense this Halloween, you’re going to need to be original. In short, it’s time to step up your Rob Ford costume game.
The weather moves gradually from summer to autumn. One day it rains and the wind blows; the next it’s sunny and too hot for a jacket. In terms of beer, it’s an abrupt jump from the warm weather lagers and pale ales to the quite wintry porters and stouts. I feel we need a beer to stand in between.
Even though he has made less than 10 features over the last 17 years, the films of Danish writer and director Nicolas Winding Refn are instantly recognizable, visually compelling and effectively unnerving. While technically savvy and refined, Refn has embraced seedy environments and a gritty template to create his dark dramas, all of which have flawed, brooding and wandering male figures at their centres.
From the outside, Osteria dei Ganzi doesn’t quite look like your average spot to grab dinner. The Italian restaurant is housed in a historical mansion commissioned by the Gooderham family in 1891. Inside, comestibles include charcuterie boards (with the likes of capicola and Parmesan), asparagus-studded pizza and a decadent take on tiramisu.
Boiling eggs is one of the first things that any aspiring cook learns in the kitchen, but peeling the eggs afterward can be tedious. Chef Nick auf der Mauer of Porchetta & Co. has a trick to speed up the process.
Food is providing the bridge back to pop stardom for Steven Page. The musician is on the phone to talk about The Illegal Eater, his hip new travel and food show on the national channel Travel + Escape, in which the former Barenaked Lady explores different cities’ buzzy underground food scenes.
Sarah Berthiaume’s expansive and chilling drama Yukonstyle, currently having its English language premiere at Berkeley Street Theatre until Oct. 27, delves into a host of raw social issues that really hit home. And when I say “home,” I mean Canada.
With Halloween only a couple of weeks away, we got to thinking about artificial sweeteners and whether they’re better or worse for us than the real stuff (sucrose or granulated sugar). So we consulted Toronto-based naturopathic doctor and best-selling author of The Carb Sensitivity Program, Dr. Natasha Turner, about the matter. Here’s what she had to say.
With the red carpet rolled up and Toronto reflecting proudly on another successful Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the business of film continues in our city and right here in Ward 25.
