Roncesvalles Polish Festival

Last weekend was the annual Roncesvalles Polish Festival. This celebration of Polish food and culture drew in quite a large crowd with many live performances and samples of Polish cuisine from pierogies to blood sausage and kielbasa to borscht. As with most Toronto street festivals the other local merchants also had their wares out, so there was also a taste of other foods, from Australian meat pies to churros.




Pierogies 


Blood Sausage with Cabbage Stew






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Shawinigan Handshake

Jean Chrétien was definitely one of our more entertaining if not wacky Prime Ministers. I found this beer inspired by one the the stranger episodes in Canadian political history, the Shawinigan Handshake.






Talking about the Shawinigan Handshake incident at 2:35 below

Krups and All-Clad at MoRoCo Chocolat

We went to MoRoCo Chocolat in Yorkville for the Night of Delight soirée by Krups and All-Clad. Amid the bubbly, chocolate fountains, macarons and s'mores, we got to check out All-Clad's latest cookware and the highly engineered marvels from Krups.





These two luxurious brands don't just look good, they are also technologically advanced instruments that cater to a more discerning clientele. We tried some coffee from the Krups Barista EA9000, which won't be out until 2013. It's equipped with its own burr grinder and digital controls. It's the only fully automatic one-touch-cappuccino machine with automatic rinsing. Pretty fancy. The video below better illustrates the point:









All-Clad specializes in bonding dissimilar metals to take advantage of various thermal and magnetic properties to create its advanced cookware. Depending on which line of cookware you choose, they either have aluminum, copper, or stainless steel cores in up to five layers. Some even have enhanced magnetic outside layers for induction cooking.



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Piola, famosi per la pizza

Piola is an Italian pizzeria chain established in 1986 in Treviso, Italy, with branches the world over.



Their menu features astipasti, pizzas, pastas, and Italian desserts. We really enjoyed their Cinghiale & Cipolle pizza, featuring brie and braised wild boar. The boar was sweet, juicy and gamey.






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On Sunday, August 19, at 3PM, Piola will be holding a gnocchi eating contest with the 1st prize being the Birra Morreti Vintage 63 Vespa shown below. Hosted by professional food eater, Furious Pete. Piola will be offering food & drink specials, and they’ll be prizes awarded to audience members as well.

1165 Queen St. West Toronto, Canada M6J1J4 (416) 477-4652 Canadian website

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