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Saturday, June 26, 2010
Trip to center Island, g20, and Franks Kitchen
This is what my city looks like right now due to the G20 Summit...and the protestors are insane....i was about two city blocks away from a mob and was too scared to take a picture....lol they had rocks...i will try my best to give you an idea of the insanity that is going on this weekend but not if it comes at my own safety!
Franks Kitchen
Franks Kitchen
A few friends and I had an impromptu dinner at a cozy restaurant on College st at Clinton. I we shared the buffalo mozzarella, the antipasto platter and the quail liver and it was all amazing...i have eaten Head Chef Franks food before as the previous chef at Flow restaurant and lounge in yorkville and when he worked for years at Centro. I am so happy he has now bought his own restaurant with his wife and has a well deserved fan base....Franks has comfort, service and food down to a T and let me tell you the Sangria....not to shabby!
although i have lived in toronto for a few years and just out side it for my entire life i have never travelled to Center Island (toronto island) before. So i had a monday off and was being visited my a friend and we decided to head on over and check out the buzz. Its beautiful with beaches ( and one clothing optional beach which was interesting) and restaurants, center ville which is like a little theme park for kids, and really alot of history. all in all there were beautiful plants, trees, animals and water so i was a happy camper.
although i have lived in toronto for a few years and just out side it for my entire life i have never travelled to Center Island (toronto island) before. So i had a monday off and was being visited my a friend and we decided to head on over and check out the buzz. Its beautiful with beaches ( and one clothing optional beach which was interesting) and restaurants, center ville which is like a little theme park for kids, and really alot of history. all in all there were beautiful plants, trees, animals and water so i was a happy camper.
Monday, June 21, 2010
my recent life
we had a wedding at work yesterday and here are some/most of the desserts we put out! :)
chocolate and raspberry mousse bomb
chocolate and raspberry mousse bomb
Monday, June 14, 2010
Taste of Toronto
Yesterday I worked at an annual event we have here in toronto called Toronto taste. It was a great day full of amazing food, wine and people. Top toronto restaurants are invited to prepare a dish and all the proceeds go to second harvest!!!
I met and took a picture with Chef Michael Smith a food network chef from PEI here in Cananda and ate some delicious food!
My Restaurant served a pan seared scallop with a mint and sweet pea ravioli and a pea and milk foam....it was delicious and not to toot my own horn but it was the prettiest dish there :)
Hope everyone had an amazing weekend:)
Monday, June 7, 2010
Sunday Beautiful Sunday
I spent a wonderful sunday up at my oma and opas house in the Muskokas....me and my neice Kyla were wandering around there property and found WILD STRAWBERRIES! I was so excited! we spent an hour picking and only came up with a cup and a half because they were so tiny but they were so packed full of flavor!Amazing Day!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Open Letter to Pride Toronto from founders of Pride in 1981
May 27, 2010
As founding members of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee, and people involved in organizing the first Pride event in Toronto at the end of June in 1981, we stand totally opposed to the decision of the current Toronto Pride Committee to ban the use of “Israeli Apartheid” at Toronto Pride events. This banning of political speech is clearly an attempt to ban the participation of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) and queer Palestine Solidarity supporters from the parade and from participation in a major event in our communities. This sets a very dangerous precedent for the exclusion of certain political perspectives within our movements and communities from Pride events. We call on the Pride committee to immediately rescind this banning and to instead encourage QuAIA’s participation in the pride parade.
We remind people of the political roots of Pride in the Stonewall rebellion against police repression in 1969 and that the Pride march in 1981 in Toronto grew out of our community resistance to the massive bath raids of that year. On the Pride march in 1981 about a thousand of us stopped in protest in front of 52 Division Police Station (which played a major part in the raids) and our resistance to the bath raids was rooted in solidarity with other communities (including the Black and South Asian communities) also facing police repression. Two of the initiating groups for Pride in 1981 — Gay Liberation Against the Right Everywhere (GLARE) and Lesbians Against the Right (LAR) — organized Pride as part of more general organizing against the moral conservative right-wing. This included not only its anti-queer but also its anti-feminist, racist and anti-working class agendas.
We also remember in the 1980s that lesbian and gay activists around the world, including in Toronto in the Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Committee, took up the struggle not only for lesbian and gay rights in South Africa but linked this to our opposition to the apartheid system of racial segregation and white supremacy in South Africa. This global queer solidarity helps to account for how it was that constitutional protection for lesbians and gay men was first established in the new post-apartheid South Africa.
Solidarity with all struggles against oppression has been a crucial part of the history of Pride. To break this solidarity as the Pride Committee has now done not only refuses to recognize how queer people always live our lives in relation to race, class, gender, ability and other forms of oppression but also breaks our connections with the struggles of important allies who have assisted us in making the important gains that we have won.
Signers:
Katherine Arnup, founding member of the Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee, member of Lesbians Against the Right and Gay Liberation Against the Right Everywhere.
Hugh English, one of the first organizers of Toronto Pride, a former member of GLARE, and a queer in solidarity with struggles against oppression around the world.
Amy Gottlieb, member of Lesbians Against the Right.
Gary Kinsman, founding member of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee, member of Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere, member of the Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Committee.
Ian Lumsden, founding member of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee and member of Gay Liberation Against the Right Everywhere.
Michael Riordon, co-host (with Lorna Weir) of the first Toronto Lesbian & Gay Pride Day, 1981; founding member of Bridges (between gay/lesbian & Latin American liberation movements); author of the forthcoming book, Our Way to Fight, on peace activists in Israel and Palestine.
Lorna Weir, co-host (with Michael Riordon) of the first Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day, founding member of Lesbians Against the Right.
Brian Woods, member of Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere, and founding member of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee.
As founding members of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee, and people involved in organizing the first Pride event in Toronto at the end of June in 1981, we stand totally opposed to the decision of the current Toronto Pride Committee to ban the use of “Israeli Apartheid” at Toronto Pride events. This banning of political speech is clearly an attempt to ban the participation of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) and queer Palestine Solidarity supporters from the parade and from participation in a major event in our communities. This sets a very dangerous precedent for the exclusion of certain political perspectives within our movements and communities from Pride events. We call on the Pride committee to immediately rescind this banning and to instead encourage QuAIA’s participation in the pride parade.
We remind people of the political roots of Pride in the Stonewall rebellion against police repression in 1969 and that the Pride march in 1981 in Toronto grew out of our community resistance to the massive bath raids of that year. On the Pride march in 1981 about a thousand of us stopped in protest in front of 52 Division Police Station (which played a major part in the raids) and our resistance to the bath raids was rooted in solidarity with other communities (including the Black and South Asian communities) also facing police repression. Two of the initiating groups for Pride in 1981 — Gay Liberation Against the Right Everywhere (GLARE) and Lesbians Against the Right (LAR) — organized Pride as part of more general organizing against the moral conservative right-wing. This included not only its anti-queer but also its anti-feminist, racist and anti-working class agendas.
We also remember in the 1980s that lesbian and gay activists around the world, including in Toronto in the Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Committee, took up the struggle not only for lesbian and gay rights in South Africa but linked this to our opposition to the apartheid system of racial segregation and white supremacy in South Africa. This global queer solidarity helps to account for how it was that constitutional protection for lesbians and gay men was first established in the new post-apartheid South Africa.
Solidarity with all struggles against oppression has been a crucial part of the history of Pride. To break this solidarity as the Pride Committee has now done not only refuses to recognize how queer people always live our lives in relation to race, class, gender, ability and other forms of oppression but also breaks our connections with the struggles of important allies who have assisted us in making the important gains that we have won.
Signers:
Katherine Arnup, founding member of the Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee, member of Lesbians Against the Right and Gay Liberation Against the Right Everywhere.
Hugh English, one of the first organizers of Toronto Pride, a former member of GLARE, and a queer in solidarity with struggles against oppression around the world.
Amy Gottlieb, member of Lesbians Against the Right.
Gary Kinsman, founding member of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee, member of Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere, member of the Simon Nkoli Anti-Apartheid Committee.
Ian Lumsden, founding member of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee and member of Gay Liberation Against the Right Everywhere.
Michael Riordon, co-host (with Lorna Weir) of the first Toronto Lesbian & Gay Pride Day, 1981; founding member of Bridges (between gay/lesbian & Latin American liberation movements); author of the forthcoming book, Our Way to Fight, on peace activists in Israel and Palestine.
Lorna Weir, co-host (with Michael Riordon) of the first Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day, founding member of Lesbians Against the Right.
Brian Woods, member of Gays and Lesbians Against the Right Everywhere, and founding member of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Day off....WHAT??
Today I had a wonderful day off...woke up with out an alarm, had a shower, put on my sunglasses and summer clothes and headed out the door! I went to vist one of my past chefs from a restaurant I was at last summer! he just opened up a new place so I had to go check it out! The venu is beautiful and I am going to go there for dinner soon so I will post about the food there after I eat it :)
After visiting I just started walking looking for a place to eat some lunch, I ended up at the corner of Church and Maitland (the village) at the Village Rainbow Cafe....I have spent countles hours in the village here in toronto but never eaten at the rainbow so i decided to test it out! I guess I was a little dissapointed but it was what I expected...I had fish and chips and a salad....to be honest i could have done with a big garden salad there home made greek dressing was wonderful! The fish was ok...cooked well and not soggy but the chips....fresh from a bag in the freezer...i hate that! i dont get why people/restaurants buy frozen fries...i am pretty sure its cheaper to buy a big bag of potatoes and a fry cutter and your customers will be much happier...hint hint nudge nudge!
tonight the plan...going to a local bar with some of my work friends...Cory... for some fun dancing and drag shows! should be a great time...it always is! Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far!
go eat somthing :)
After visiting I just started walking looking for a place to eat some lunch, I ended up at the corner of Church and Maitland (the village) at the Village Rainbow Cafe....I have spent countles hours in the village here in toronto but never eaten at the rainbow so i decided to test it out! I guess I was a little dissapointed but it was what I expected...I had fish and chips and a salad....to be honest i could have done with a big garden salad there home made greek dressing was wonderful! The fish was ok...cooked well and not soggy but the chips....fresh from a bag in the freezer...i hate that! i dont get why people/restaurants buy frozen fries...i am pretty sure its cheaper to buy a big bag of potatoes and a fry cutter and your customers will be much happier...hint hint nudge nudge!
The other day I made my way over the The Kensington Cornerstone for a nice lunch! I had a wonderful pulled pork bbq open faced sandwitch and a green salad with my first taste of gluten free beer! It tasted clean and fresh and is deffinatly somthing I would get again!
Then I took a look at the menu again and realized a little note on the bottom that the whole menu was gluten free...how amazing is that!!!! absolutly wonderful! so if you are ever in the kensington market area of toronto....check out the kensington cornerstone for sure you wont be disapointed!
Then I took a look at the menu again and realized a little note on the bottom that the whole menu was gluten free...how amazing is that!!!! absolutly wonderful! so if you are ever in the kensington market area of toronto....check out the kensington cornerstone for sure you wont be disapointed!
tonight the plan...going to a local bar with some of my work friends...Cory... for some fun dancing and drag shows! should be a great time...it always is! Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far!
go eat somthing :)
Work Party
we hosted a silent auction and fundraising event last week for a university here in toronto and here is some of the food they got to enjoy!!
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