Culinaria at UTSC

Don't miss this great symposium on sustainable food futures! May 23-25, in-person and online. Visit www.utsc.utoronto.ca/culinaria/node/3384 for program and zoom details.

Here's a lesson in what Toronto misses with their ludicrous restrictions on street food. Good food and economic opportunity...

Evelia’s Tamales, from Pushcart to Brick and Mortar Evelia Coyotzi, who started out selling her homemade tamales on a street corner in North Corona, Queens, has opened a storefront restaurant nearby, offering tortas and tortillas in addition to the main draw.

Night Falls on the Salt Marsh

April 28 - Exploring the Intersection Between Food and Disability

Students from DTS410 "Diasporic Foodways" are helping to organize Big Spoon Lil Spoon's (BSLS) First Annual Conference - Exploring the Intersection Between Food and Disability! BSLS is a non-profit organization providing affordable cooking classes for children with disabilities and has been operating out of UofT for three years now! The Conference, hosted virtually, will be held on Zoom on Thursday April 28, 2022 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. EDT. Those interested can register for the event here: https://forms.gle/NDBGZVnYE8yDfYaZ7 (Links to an external site.). All those who register for this FREE event are automatically entered into a raffle for a prize pack of gifts from local Toronto businesses, including two $50.00 gift cards to Nani’s Gelato and a gift card from Blackbird Baking Co.! Additional raffle entries are $5.00 each, payable via e-transfer to [email protected]. Feel free to invite family, friends, and colleagues to this event!

Big Spoon Lil Spoon's First Annual Conference - Exploring the Intersection Between Food and Disability: Registration Register for our first annual conference, "Exploring the Intersection Between Food and Disability" on April 28th, from 5-7pm (EST)! Registration is free and open to the public. Every registrant is automatically entered into our raffle for the chance to win a prize from local Toronto business, like t...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/travel/mount-etna-olive-oil.html

Cultivating Olives on the Slopes of Mount Etna For millenniums, farmers and vintners in northeastern Sicily have benefited from the area’s mineral-rich soil, a result of volcanic eruptions.

https://www.avmcuriosities.com/ #/digital-dinner-party

AVM Curiosities AVM Curiosities® has been exploring the relationship between art and the senses through a series of events and interventions since 2011. Founded by award-winning food historian Tasha Marks, AVM Curiosities champions the use of food and fragrance as artistic mediums, with projects ranging from museu...

Kind of an open secret by now but ...

"The consolidation runs deep: four firms or fewer controlled at least 50% of the market for 79% of the groceries. For almost a third of shopping items, the top firms controlled at least 75% of the market share"

Revealed: the true extent of America’s food monopolies, and who pays the price Investigation shows scale of big food corporations’ market dominance and political power

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/singapore-s-aging-street-food-hawkers-get-help-from-instagram-1.1623331

Singapore’s Aging Street Food Hawkers Get Help From Instagram - BNN Bloomberg Seah Hui Li rises before dawn every morning to make 400 traditional steamed buns filled with creamy red bean paste to sell in one of Singapore’s famed hawker markets. But as Covid-19 restrictions kept diners away, the 63-year-old stall holder struggled.

So excited to see you all at our Exhibitor Booth tonight!!!

https://youtu.be/tW9bh3tLZyo Our new promo video!

“Culinaria is Community”

Visit with our fantastic Archivists and Librarians at the UTSC Library in Q&A sessions in our Exhibitor Booth on Monday, June 14th (10-11am & 3-4pm EDT) and Tuesday June 15th (1-2pmEDT)!