Source: The Toronto Star, February 2, 1915. Mother’s joy that her son savoured her new apple pie recipe quickly turned to horror as the boy’s eagerness to wolf down the piping hot dessert without using a plate led to burns on his hands and oozy mounds of fruity filling creeping down his new school outfit. [...]

Photo by Greg Clow from Flickr. Yesterday, Torontoist got to go check out what’s brewing with the Ontario Craft Brewers at the absolutely gorgeous LCBO that’s been built into the old Summerhill-North Toronto CPR station. (Seriously. Go check it out. It’s beautiful.) If you haven’t heard of the OCB, it’s an association of 29 small [...]

All summer long, Toronto has been jam-packed with countless cultural festivities, and as the last weekend of the summer begins to dawn on us—with students gearing up for school and vacations coming to an unfortunate end—why not end the summer with some Ukrainian style? This year, what was formerly known as the Bloor West Village [...]

This weekend is going to be a scorcher. Lured by the siren song of the ice cream truck, it will be hard to resist that choc-vanilla twist cone, or Rocket Pop. Then there’s always the convenience store on the corner for a Strawberry Shortcake or Freezie. Of course, after too many of these sweet treats, [...]

Among book collectors, zines are what’s known as ephemera — written matter meant to circulate and serve a purpose, but not to last. They tend to wind up in recycling bins instead of libraries, and so there’s a danger that the entire history of zine-making over the last two or three decades could simply vanish. [...]

Lately we’ve been hearing a lot about the seal hunt here in Toronto. Despite the fact that we’re about as far removed, both geographically and culturally, from the ice floes as we can possible to be without leaving the country, the hunt and its busty celebrity detractors are splattered all over the pages of Now [...]

If you stand very quietly in the Don Valley this weekend, somewhere around Todmorden Mills and the Brickworks, you might see them – tiny little women bent at the waist and wearing black. Trowels in hand, these mostly Greek and Slovenian women patiently search the valley floor for the first dandelion shoots of the season. [...]

TOist contributor Jill Murray has directed our attention to a tasty fundraiser for Medecins Sans Frontieres (aka Doctors Without Borders). And They Cook, Too is a handily spiral-bound collection of recipes by bloggers all over the internet, including a few by Jill herself (personally, we can’t wait to try her Peanut Butter Pancakes). Here’s the [...]

March is moving out like a lamb and Toronto is up for a double shot of groovy spring feelings this week with the re-mounting of Hair, the Tribal Love Rock musical and the return of strawberries. It’s the time of the season for these plump, glossy red berries to be making their appearance at fruit [...]

There are days, right? Days when it’s supposed to be spring outside, but it’s still cold and dreary. And you have to do your taxes, or write exams, or pull out all of your heavy furniture and clean the year’s worth of dust that’s piled up against the wall. This is the cure for those [...]

This is for the hungry, strike-affected college students of Toronto. The title might be a bit dramatic, but if you’re a student – or just eat like one – this recipe could save you from being the subject of a “Oh my god! My friend knows a guy who got scurvy! Honest to god, SCURVY!” [...]