Chef Johl Whiteduck Ringuette The Koreatown storefront that until recently housed Tacos El Asador is famously tiny: For years, patrons sat shoulder to shoulder, downing al pastor tacos at picnic tables wedged together in the cramped corner unit. Now, 690 Bloor West is the new home of chef Johl Whiteduck Ringuette, who’s got very, very …
There are many stories, facts and myths about maple syrup. Are these four facts or maple syrup myths? Maple Trees were once called Maypoles. True: Bridget Lacy, an early settler of Upper Canada, in a letter to Mary Thompson in Ireland, wrote, “But what flogged all that I had ever seen, was making sugar out …
Maple Syrup Grading: Colour and Flavour In 2011, a new system was introduced for grading syrup. The industry, in order to create better optimization and control, came up with these new grading categories. More recently, these changes have taken effect. Here’s what these changes mean for you. The old grading system was based on the …
New Maple Syrup Season This one will go down in the books as our earliest syrup season in the twenty plus years we have been producing maple syrup. We finished tapping on February 20 and collected enough sap to fire up the evaporator for the next day. It was a great sap run thanks to …