Eat This!

Constance Menzies remembers the Christmases of her childhood as lovely and lavish. “Our holidays were rich,” even if her family was not, she said.

Shea Ritchie grew up in the hospitality industry, helping with his father’s food service company. When he was 12, he was a dishwasher. And it wouldn’t be completely out of the ordinary to find him in the dish pit these days, either.

Suzanne Gessler went from career burnout to sweeping soot out of a brick oven – and she couldn’t be happier.

Nearly a century in, the Dawson Richardson Building is as strong and steadying as your first cup of coffee in the morning. Home to Forth, the building at 171 McDermot Avenue has become a community centre for the Exchange District.

Shawarma poutine might be the ultimate Canadian-Middle Eastern dish at Corydon restaurant Arabesque.

Adham Tayfour wants to provide the same opportunity to others that he found in Canada. He also wants to share a taste of what he left behind.

Talia Syrie learned to cook for a crowd in a tree-planting camp.

For Cheryl Zealand, inspiration arrived in a pot of cold oatmeal. At the time, her twins were 2 and her older child was 7 years old. With the children’s needs pressing, the oatmeal she’d made earlier in the day had been forgotten.

Some of Sachit Mehra’s earliest memories are riding his tricycle around the tables at his family’s restaurant. Today, he’s helping set the direction for the future of East India Company.

Thinking about the impact of her business on the environment and doing something about it has been part of her business since Constance Menzies opened her shop in 2007 as the first cacao bean to chocolate bar maker in Manitoba.