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This post should be titled “how eating local food has made me very hard to please in restaurants and shops”. I joined a CSA a year ago that gives me direct access to produce from the Kawarthas’ region near Toronto. I shop at a store that supports local farmers as much as they can, which [...]  I have a confession to make. I haven’t shopped at a supermarket in over a year. Probably closer to two years. People usually give me quizzical looks when I say that. I can see it in their eyes that they cannot imagine where else would I buy food. We seem to have forgotten where food [...] I’ve been thinking a lot about sustainable farming lately. In a recent discussion about Michael Pollan’s book, a friend of mine expressed his concern that Pollan’s ideas about sustainable and organic agriculture and his criticism of big agribusiness would result in higher food prices and therefore have devastating effects on the poor around the world. [...] Traveling, for me, means trying different foods. Most of my research and preparation before a trip is focused on learning about local foods, restaurants, markets and my main memory about a place is always related to its food. The same applies to my childhood memories. If you are like me, you’ll enjoy Time’s photographic series [...] When Canadians ask me about Brazil, almost the first thing they ask – after the weather, of course – is about the coffee. “It bet you get really nice coffee there!”, they’d say. When I first arrived in Canada, in the days when the only coffee we had at home was sent by my mother [...] During the summer months, Toronto is filled with markets where local farmers sell their ware. I feel very bad that I still haven’t been able to patronize some of these markets – they are usually during the week – but at least I get to buy local, seasonal produce at the Pusateri Fresh Market, on [...] |
 Hi, I'm Alexandra. Born in Brazil, Canadian by choice, and having lived in exciting Barcelona for a year between 2006 and 2007, my earliest childhood memories revolve around food and food is what I remember most about every place I’ve ever lived. After writing a more general blog for the past few years, it was time to organize my writing about food in one place. © All pictures on this blog are taken by me unless otherwise noted. About the title of this blog |
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