Toronto Star announces its 2016 Toronto Food And Drink market . This event in its 24th year will take place from April 8 to 11 at the Enercare Center. The show features the Food Truck Alley, wines, beer, and spirit booths, food suppliers, and an extensive cheese pavilion. Show times […]
Vintages management policy is to feature well known wine producing regions of countries in each release. This release features Italy, Israel and south-western France. Many other countries and regions are also represents with a variety of brands. The Italian offerings are impressive with a number of Tuscan wines including a […]
When Clemente Santi, while in inspecting his exclusively sangiovese planted vineyard, in 1865 observed a vine with bunches bearing small brownish berries, never imagined the wine would become world famous. He knew that small berries yield more flavourful wines, than large ones. He called his new “found” grape, a natural […]
Barberian’s Steak House – Toronto When Harry Barberian (age 71) died following complications of a surgery, the entire Toronto restaurant community mourned. Harry founded his eponymous steak house in 1959 and managed it until his death, attracting (artists, city, provincial, federal and international) politicians and steak-loving diners to his now […]
Small Italian wineries always promote their products even though they may sell most, if not all, their production locally. Family owned wineries try to increase their sales through exports. Italian, like most other European wine-producing countries, like to drink their regional wines for a variety of reasons – local foods […]
Iris Johansen created yet another interesting novel in Shadow Play. The plot involves Eve Duncan, a forensic sculptor, to help in the reconstruction of the skull of a murdered girl. After being buried for eight years the body was exhumed in an attempt to investigate, and possibly find the murderer. […]
Lonely Planet is one of the best-known travel guide publishers, and by all accounts produces well-reached and well-written books on travel-worthy destination or countries. Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan are all countries sharing the Caucasus between the Black Sea in the west, the Caspian Sea in the east, and Iran to […]
The Charlottetown conference and the birth of confederation Deirdre Kessler and Douglas Baldwin Nimbus Publishing Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia 123 pages, $ 15.95 Most colonies separate after tumultuous events, and many such independence movements turn violent. The English monarchy and politicians generally manage to give full or partial independence to […]
