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Haunted Yorkville, U of T & Queen's ParkHALLOWEEN WEEK GHOST WALKS(6:30-9:00 pm): Advance E-Tickets Availability October 25th - November 1st, 2011Once we've rested and stuffed ourselves during the...
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Toronto: November 1st, 2011 All Saints' Day
Victorian Lady aka Shirley Lum, guide during Halloween Week Ghost Walks How more appropriate could it have been that on Monday October 31st, 2011 we celebrated All Hallows Eve or Halloween along the...
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Toronto, the Multicultural Feast, Harvest & Meeting Place
Toronto, the Meeting Place ... the meeting place for so many diverse cultures since 1792 ... the Meeting Place for four seasonal bounties.... the Meeting Place for sharing diverse ways to cook the...
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Let Us Not Forget... 11/11/11
Halloween flashed by... As we enter into a new month, it keeps getting darker earlier, and nights are dark longer... we slow down, reflect and remember deceased loved ones on All Saints' Day (November...
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A little bit of Paris in Toronto
I'm looking forward to tonight's public lecture, Eating Words: The Art of Food Blogging by Parisienne food blogger, Clotilde Dusoulier. She pens the award-winning blog, chocolateandzucchini.com and...
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What the Dickens! Food Blogging At the Best of Time: Clotilde Dusoulier in...
Believe it or not, there are six degrees of separation between British author Charles Dickens, Parisienne food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier, who's the 2011-2012 Joseph Hoare Gastronomic...
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Tis the Season: Share ALL the Festivals of Lights!
I love this time of the year as the spectacular sunsets take place earlier each day and the crisp morning air gets nippy due to dropping temperatures approaching the freezing point, and we're shrouded...
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'Tis the Season: Thinking Outside of the Gift Box!
Surprise the Foodie/Literary Detective/Ghost Buster in your life!Tuck a Gift Certificate in a Gift Box! 2011 has been pure Shangri-La because throughout this year, I've had the honour and pleasure of...
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Happy New Year! Happy Asian Lunar New Year! Let's Celebrate Year of the Water...
Adieu old year and welcome new year! Lucky me, I get to say that not once, not twice, but three times! I love that old adage, "Good things come in threes"... On that note ... Happy New Year and adieu...
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Charles Dickens lands on Canadian soil first!
Charles Dickens portrait by Francis Alexander in 1842Hey Canada - here's some interesting Canadian literary food for thought... the world is abuzz with the fast approaching bicentenary birthday of...
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Today, January 25th, 2012 is Day 3 of 15 days of festivities - yes, eat, eat, eat! Warning: EAT before you read Sara Waxman's delicious story as she include a segment about our Chinese New Year tours...
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The True Story Behind Charles Dickens' Visit to Toronto May 4-6th, 1842...
Charles Dickens age 30portrait by Francis AlexanderHis impression of Toronto upon arrival:"The country round this town being very flat, is bare of scenic interest; but the town itself is full of life...
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March Break 2012: Learn with Your Whole Family!
Einstein or Scarecrow Brain Cupcakes?How will you learn with your family during March Break 2012? Shhh... Here's a little secret we're letting you in on - we get guests who attend a foodie or ghost...
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It's Paranormal Activity Week in Toronto!
May Pole at one of Toronto's best-kept secret: Toronto Music Garden The spring flowers are poking out of the ground... The robins are out and about chirping their little hearts out... It's spring time...
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April Showers bring May/June Flowers & Walks
April showers bring May flowers... and May/June 2012 are two months jam-packed with celebrations! Wait till we get into July... it will be 19 fun years since I launched A Taste of the World Walks!...
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Happy 145th Canada Day!
It's July 1st, 2012! It is ... Canada's 145th birthday! Happy Canada Day folks!What sweet irony this moment is for me... I am wrapping up this Canada Day post to dash off for a glimpse of the 11th...
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How Many Ways to "Goof Off" for the Summer?
Can you feel it? Summer is here!!! Yipeee! For some folks, summer officially starts with Summer Solstice... For those still in school, the last day of school was the marker... The marker for me seems...
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How many ways to celebrate Fall in Toronto? Part I
Shhhh! Don't tell anyone ... Toronto, lives up to its First Nation name, the Meeting Place in the Fall season! I don't know about you, but there's something soothing about that crisp autumn breeze...
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How do Foodies & Ghostologists Celebrate October in Toronto?
It's getting darker sooner each day... As the temperature dips with each glorious Toronto sunsets, the crisp autumn air returns, and the vivid green leaves morph into breath-taking kaleidescope of...
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Lest We Forget... Remembrance Day in Toronto's Chinatown, Nov 11th, 2012
Day of the Dead display, Courage My Love windowalong Haunted Kensington, Chinatown & The Grange Walk, 2012The days keep getting shorter and the nights are getting longer... we slow down, reflect...
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