“Giishpin waanda kendamaawnen gegoo, aabideg ntam g’gagwejikendaan maanda/ If you want to learn something, first you must learn this.” Ogimaa Mikana Project Reconciliation is dead. Though, as Jesse Wente…
Breakfast/ Dessert/ Food Writing/ Recipes
Manoomin pudding with orange blossom water, roses and pistachios
Each summer in Toronto, the highways and main arteries of the city clog as car after car joins the exodus of city dwellers escaping the concrete heat of the…
This is manoomin. Maybe, spelled manomin. Either way is an Anglicization of an Anishinaabemowin word that existed long before English was introduced to the Americas. This is manomin; it…
Baking/ Dessert/ Food Writing/ Recipes
Donald Trump eats Tacos: Why eating and cooking diverse food won’t make you a better person (and, a recipe for Eggless Ras El Hanout Spiced Apple Cake with a Brown Butter and Rum Icing)
The ability to cook diverse food, to eat food from different places and cultures, is too often described as an enlightenment project, as a way to ‘becoming’ something else.…
“To be Ethiopian in Israel is to be constantly struggling for something…” This recipe and article are the result of reading a recent article in Taste that profiles the…
Cookbook Reviews
From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free: A review of Joudie Kalla’s “Baladi” and “Palestine on a Plate”
Despite what the news or a map might tell you, Palestine is a real place; it still exists today. To feel the need to state this is simultaneously laughable…
Scarborough. The wide expanses and lack of familiar landmarks often disorient me: I’m here often but I’m not from here. I wait, only to unintentionally hop on a bus…