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THE EDIBLE CITY, EDITED BY CHRISTINA PALASSIO & ALANA WILCOX
Are you ready for the best food fight of the fall literary season? No, put down that cream pie. We’re talking about a panel debate featuring such celebrated culinary commentators as Steven Biggs, Sasha Chapman, Sarah B. Hood, Lorraine Johnson and Joshna Maharaj. Dick Snyder, editor of City Bites magazines, will act as moderator. Is there a better way to celebrate the launch of The Edible City: Toronto’s food from farm to fork (Coach House Books), a collection co-edited by Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox? We think not. Rest assured, there will be fun food-related activities such as a Toronto-themed cookie-decorating contest. Marc Glassman, Executive Director of This Is Not A Reading Series (TINARS), will host the afternoon. – A TINARS event presented by The Force For Cultural Event Productions, Coach House Books, Gladstone Hotel, NOW Magazine, and Take Five On CIUT.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Sun Nov 15; 2pm (Doors 1:30pm) $5 (Free with Book Purchase)

THE EDIBLE CITY If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, food-security concerns, how chefs are trained: how a city nourishes itself might say more than anything else about what kind of city it is.

With a cornucopia of essays on comestibles, The Edible City, co-edited by Christina Palassio and Alana Wilcox, considers how one city eats. It includes dishes on peaches and poverty, on processing plants and public gardens, on rats and bees and bad restaurant service, on schnitzel and school lunches. There are incisive studies of food-safety policy, of feeding the poor, and of waste, and a happy tale about a hardy fig tree.

Together they form a saucy picture of how Toronto – and, by extension, every city – sustains itself, from growing basil on balconies to four-star restaurants. Dig into The Edible City and get the whole story, from field to fork