Since the first Toronto Taste 21 years ago (then known as Taste of the Nation), the event has raised over $4 million, enabling Second Harvest to secure enough fresh food to deliver over 8 million meals to those in Toronto living with hunger. That’s enough to feed almost every one of Regent Park’s 2,045 families with children three square meals a day for a whole year.
As it's held at the Royal Ontario Museum, the ambiance was great - with the way it's set up, you get the best of both worlds - food and drink were served up by 60 top chefs and 30 beverage purveyors both inside and outside the ROM. There was live music plus a ton of opportunities to win great prizes through a raffle as well as via live/silent auctions.
While we certainly didn't get around to every chef and beverage purveyor (you couldn't possibly in just one night!), we had a couple stand-outs to share:
- Brisket burger with kimchi from Nota Bene
- Cider-braised pork belly from Epic
- Mushroom polenta from Scarpetta
- Chicken lollipops in a mayo-spice sauce covered with Indian rice puffs from Roger Mooking which we paired with a Rickards White with the help of our friend Steve Riley from Better Beer.com
- Salty Chocolate Caramel from Xococava (served by men walking around with old-style candy boxes strapped to their chests no less!) and washed down with a Henry of Pelham 2008 Riesling
- Ricotta orange donut with candied orange and cardamom orange smoothie shot from Pangaea
- White chocolate mascarpone meringue with strawberry sauce from Baker St
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Food and beer pairing
Roger Mooking drops in
Like I said, if there is just one charitable thing you do next year, make it Toronto Taste. You will not be disappointed!
Yours in food,
-Stacey
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6 comments:
Yummy. That looks like a mouth-watering combo. Did Steve say anything about how to use the pairing chart? I checked out his website but I didn't see any pointers on how to use it.
YUM. Jealous jealous jealous. I am really wanting a salted caramel now...with or without an old-fashioned dude serving it to me.
Hey there! Here's how to read that beer tasting card:
Top left: *Yeast* gives these types of flavour profiles (isn't that crazy? in some cases it can give even a "bubble gum" type flavour to a beer!)
Directly below: *Malts* often give the sweetness to a beer, as you'll see chocolate and caramel as two of its flavour profiles.
Top right: *Hops* give these flavour profiles. If you've had a beer that tastes peppery, it's likely from the hops.
Below that: *Flavours or combos* - can be something brewers have deliberately added to the beer.
Very bottom (black bar): These are *faults* - you DO NOT want to taste these in your beer.
Hope that helps! - Stacey
Ally - the salted caramel was to die for! Nothing like sweet and salty together eh?! -Stacey
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