 How to feed a working girl: PT II (Zoe's) TORONTO - I, Dee, am a working girl. I took my summer to relax and laze about and travel, but now am back to the grindstone, as they say. I can no longer meet friends and past colleagues for long lunches dressed in flip flops, enjoying a caprese in the middle of the day without aView More  River Rock CafeTORONTO - I offered to babysit a friend's children this weekend while they were celebrating their anniversary in Vegas. They have 3 children (ages 10, 8 and 6 (I think), plus I ended up with an extra in there somehow) and live in suburban Georgetown, an hour or (it feels like) moView More  Project: What to feed a working girl, pt. 1TORONTO - Not that kind of working girl. just the kind of girl who's, at the moment, working, and, generally, starving to death. A conundrum. It's 12:30ish. I have less than 30 minutes before my next meeting - the only not-quite-30 minutes I have free today - and have yet to preView More  High in Toronto: School of Circus ArtsTORONTO - There's that part in movies like cliffhanger where the lead character, likeable despite the careless mistakes he's made to alienate his friends, is closing in on death. He's falling from a precipice or hanging off the edge of a building, with only one chance of survivinView More  The Henderson Jersey Homecoming Tour: celebrating a Canadian momentTORONTO - I wasn’t alive in 1972, but everyone who remembers September 28, 1972 remembers it like a dream - everyone has their own story. My dad’s grade 12 science teacher became his all-time favourite when he wheeled a small television into the lab so the class could watch tView More  Following the Brick Street (Bakery)TORONTO - 'They' (whoever they is) apparently did a study some time ago on men's favourite smells - those smells that really get them randy - and what came out on top? No, not bacon, or axe body spray, as is implied on recent commercials, but freshly baked bread. Straight from thView More  Kensington market: Beating to the Toronto DrumTORONTO - I feel like a nutty crunchy tree hugger. There are second hand cowboy boots, lost soles piled together on the sidewalk, that tutu that I should be buying for Halloween, buskers on the street and empanadas in hand. Organic and rustic pies in the sky, the spice of your liView More  Toronto baseball: Take me outTORONTO - Take me out to the ballgame, take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and cracker jacks… oh, remember those? I remember when i was little, and we had cracker jacks in white boxes with red lettering and really cheap toys inside and it was terrible and fantastic View More  NADÈGE Toronto. At Peace with your Pastry.TORONTO - There are moments when I'm travelling, when the world is drowned (rest and relief on a Kauaian cliffside, solitude where Parisien lamps haunt light onto deserted, rain-drizzled streets, shared emotions on an art gallery patio as the sun sets through the grand canal, KliView More  Burrito EnvyTORONTO - I was watching the fire truck roll by Dundas Square the other day, licking my lips for fear of public drool, staring at the good looking, scruffy man on the way to put out some fire somewhere, making my taste buds quiver. I had burrito envy. The way it was wrapped onView More |