Eat My City is a food magazine by and for amateur food enthusiasts in Toronto. Here you’ll find restaurant reviews, cooking tips and recipes as we explore the city and cook for friends and family. We’re still a young site, so we gladly welcome your feedback as we iron out the kinks. We’re growing our team and will add our writers’ bios as they come in.
Our writers:
Joseph Lavoie
Though Joseph spends his days consulting at a communications firm, his main obsession outside of work and politics is food. A couple years ago a friend prepared an amazing multi-course dinner. Joseph had no idea it was possible to cook food like that at home. His curiosity led him down a path (his wife might say a black hole) of constant searching and experimenting with food. He enjoys hosting dinner for friends and family and largely contributes recipes to Eat My City. Joseph also maintains a personal blog, josephlavoie.com. You can find him on Twitter, @josephlavoie.
Check out his latest contributions.
Jeremy Adams
Despite only eating peanut butter until the age of 12, Jeremy has become a devout foodie in his adult life. To the delight of his wife, he enjoys recreational cooking, hosting dinner parties, and a good meal out on the town. A devout reader of cooking news, columns, recipes and tips, he is constantly on the hunt for new and better tools and products to adorn his Greektown kitchen and stock his fridge. While adept at tackling complex dinner party menus, in credit to his mom – an old school, keep-it-simple cook – Jeremy’s current interest is in quick, tasty, and healthy meals. He is the “go-to” guy for useful tips (and the odd tool) to make a good meal great. Follow Jeremy on Twitter @jemadams.
Check out Jeremy’s latest contributions.
Will Stewart
Will is a native of the mean streets of Scarborough where he spent many evenings in the backyard honing his BBQ skills to the soothing sounds of police sirens and whizzing bullets. He first came to fame as the host and chef of Will’s Bar & Grill which was made possible by vacationing parents, fake IDs, and the boys of Cedarbrae High School.
Now older, not necessarily wiser, Will spends as much time as he can on the back deck around the pool and at the grill for family and friends in Oakville. Will is a firm believer in liberal use of the three food groups – Meat, Beer, Cheese. He draws inspiration from those early days of the Bar & Grill coupled with ideas generated by fresh food from local markets and the produce of Niagara. You can follow Will on Twitter, @Will_W_Stewart
Check out Will’s latest contributions.
Steve Abra
Possessing of both insatiable curiosity, and a somewhat reckless willingness to throw himself into culinary projects few people attempt at home, Steve’s greatest food fascination is found in the wild and varied world of fermentation. After undertaking experiments ranging from making traditional (buried!) gravlax, homebrewed mead, homemade cheese, sourdough bread, sauerkraut, and homemade mustard, Steve’s writings focus primarily on ways to adapt some of these overlooked foods and processes for home use. Oh yeah, and that other major fermented item – beer!
Relying on some of the lessons learned in various homebrewing projects, and much “field” research, Steve keeps tabs on what’s new on the beer shelves at the LCBO, and in his steadily growing list of favourite bars.
Bill Ostrander
Some search for God. Some search for spiritual inspiration. Bill Ostrander searches for the perfect latte.
It is a search that is essentially North American. Europeans would not think of drinking a latte after breakfast time, unless, perhaps, they were in the Alps and very cold. Someone from the Middle East would naturally seek out that dense dark coffee served in small cups as a welcome to a guest or as a base for discussion. Someone from Africa…, someone from South Asia….
A latte taken when you should be somewhere else, when you should be doing something that others consider useful, this is the best kind of latte. It is an illicit latte.
Jackson Proskow
Bio coming soon.
In the meantime, check out Jackson’s latest contributions.
ADDinfulleffect
He’s a mean Vespa-driving machine on the hunt for the city’s best food. The Vespa diaries and ADDinfulleffect’s bio are coming soon.
In the meantime, check out his latest contributions.
