If you call yourself a foodie, you were probably at Food Share Toronto’s Recipe for Change event last night.
If you weren’t, you really should have been.
This was the best possible way to spend Thursday ‘happy hour’. Period.
The North Building of the St. Lawrence Market was transformed into the ultimate festival of food and drink from 6-9pm. Recipe for Change didn’t fail to dish up some seriously delicious eats and an all-inclusive party for the love – and future – of food.
Whatever your taste or craving – from as healthy and vegan as it gets, to shamelessly delicious comfort grub – you could find something to please your pallet. This year’s edition, “Party for the Future of Food” included 30 local chefs, two craft brewers, and four wineries.
This meant some of our favourite spots, like DaiLo, Fonda Lola, and Pizzeria Libretto, paired with beer from Black Oak Brewing Co and Beaus All Natural Craft Beers or a selection of VQA wine from Chateau des Charmes, Good Earth Winery, Grange of Prince Edward County Vineyards and Estates, and Frogpond Farm Organic Winery.
Highlights included tasty items like bacon-wrapped wild boar sliders with brie, filled with Nutella from Wild Burger; DaiLo’s famous dumplings, and Buffalo Chicken and Chicharron Black Pepper Biscuits from the Kind Edward Hotel’s Omni (which were described as “chicken wings on a champagne budget”).
And that’s just to name a few.
Unlike other food and drink shows, where you have to deal with purchasing pricy and flimsy food and drink tickets in addition to the general admission (how annoying), the purchase of one ticket got you unlimited access to the goodness that was dished up.
If you felt guilty about indulging in the diet-breaking-worthy goodness, you could feel better about the fact that it was all for a great cause. Recipe for Change raises money for FoodShare programs that inspire the next generation of healthy eaters, growers, and sharers. The organization’s field-to-table approach focuses on the entire system that puts food on our tables – from growing, processing, and distribution of food, to its purchasing, cooking, and consumption.
FoodShare is a leading community food organization in Toronto, with a mission to return healthy food and food literacy to schools. Every year, their programs reach over 223,000 people in the city.
And last night, you should have let it reach you.
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