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Reflections from decades of serving Toronto as bakers
Bakers with half a century of experience discuss their lives in the industry, along with a younger innovator serving luxury French pastries
Caked up
Caked Up The influence of white respectability politics on Black cultural movements Words by A.S.A.Visuals by Helen Yu When you hear the word “cake,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? For me, it’s a slice of red velvet with cream cheese frosting. In today’s day and age, though, ...
Why I dreaded making chai
Comforting the Unseeable in a Brown-immigrant household
Food as Love
Cooking as a vessel for care in Chinese culture
Mirage of memory
Mirage of Memory Words & Photos by Barbara AthanasoulasIllustration by Amie Leung I remember blankets of snow when my father died. But now, fourteen years later, I wonder how much of that memory has been filled in from bleak movie scenes. Does it matter if it snowed? I’ve lived with ...
Dessert
Words by Rion Levy Visuals by Kalliopé Anvar McCall we start with the icing— layer by layer we peel it off each other’s dense, chewy centres: perfectly round, plump with sugar, pleasant, perfect mounds pleading to be desired. we devour— driven together, digging insatiably deeper with our fingers, tasting our ...
A collection of musings on quarantine dreams
Unpacking my subconscious’ wackiest moments
L’amour d’un rêveur
(A dreamer's love)
Different places, similar ways
Seeing an old friend in several alternate realities