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15 January 2025
▪️ Early Bird registration for Rochon Garden’s 2025 Community Support Agriculture programme (starting May 12 for 24 weeks) is now open. Full, Half, and Lite Shares are available.
▪️ It’s Appy Wednesday at Soca Kitchen, today and every Wednesday during the month of January. Buy One, Get One Free.
▪️ Ameya Charnalia at Eat the Strip satisfied a crave for Nigerian food by heading to Detola’s Kitchen. Once he started his egusi, a ‘comforting Nigerian dish featuring doughy fufu served with a rich, nutty melon seed stew, tender beef, and a balance of spicy heat and savoury flavours’, he ‘couldn’t stop’.
▪️ Dunn’s Famous Deli in ByTown Market is selling its buildingalthough the 24 hour resto is still operating.
▪️ In Apartment 613’s latest Best Bites column, Hannah Manning and Kiersten Vuorimaki eat at East India Company (‘I recommend trying the gulab jaman: round, soft cake pieces soaked in rosewater cardamom syrup’), Dukes (‘Bacon, scrambled eggs and processed cheese are lovingly tucked into a super soft potato bun, with a sweet, creamy secret special sauce and tangy pickles. I’ve never had pickles on my breakfast, but now I’m hooked’), and Art-Is-In (‘My favourite regular menu pizza is the Hipster Pepperoni with small crispy pepperoni, Pecorino Romano cheese and fresh basil’).
▪️ After 20 years of work La coopérative de solidarité Épicerie de l'île de Hull has given up on trying to open an affordable grocery store in the Hull quarter.
▪️ Peter Hum in the Ottawa Citizen locates his sugar high in Moo Shu’s brûléed ice cream sandwiches. Hum says the sandwiches flavours ‘feel like what you’ve been missing all your life when you eat them’.