Baking has always been a passion for Sharon De Leon, but her career in preparing Filipino breads and pastries began almost accidentally. For years, it had always been her side gig where she’d fulfill orders at home whenever she found the time outside of working as a professional chef. But now, she’s made baking her […]
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Where I Work: Creamy Rainbow Bakery and Cafe
Creamy Rainbow Bakery and Cafe 1526 Dresden Row WHO SHE IS Helen Zhao dreams about cakes, breads and desserts as soft as clouds. Raised in China, where bakeries are filled with a combination of savoury, sweet and creamy treats, Zhao couldn’t find the equivalent in Halifax. She craved dough mixed with egg milk and stuffed […]
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Where I work: Laura MacLeod
Who she is Take one bite out of one of Laura MacLeod’s chocolate-coated eclairs and you’ll know that she’s the real deal. Going into culinary school MacLeod didn’t have her mind set on baking but to her surprise she fell in love with it. “I think it had more of a design element. It was […]
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Gimme sum more Kee Heong
There is, perhaps, nothing better than an inverse relationship between how good your food is and how much it costs. Delicious, affordable snacks popped up all over the city last Saturday—burgers and banh mi, iced teas and tacos served up curbside for only a couple of bucks a bite. Open City excels at making great […]
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How to bribe Santa with cookies
Now that it’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, shifty-eyed tots around the world are breaking into a nervous sweat whenever the words “naughty or nice” come up. But before they take that long Christmas Eve walk down the red and green mile to their rooms, think about giving the naughtier children in your […]
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Bakery Perfume
I LOVE being anywhere on Quinpool and smelling the smell of a certain bakery! I am not a fan of your bread but damn! I could fill my belly just with that delicious yeasty odour! —Bread Girl
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Assembling a local picnic basket
Sunday August 30 is the Incredible Picnic, the province-wide celebration of local food. At the Halifax location, on the Garrison Grounds, onsite vendors will have samples, but the truly adventuresome will bring their own picnic baskets. You can’t, however, rely on imported picnic staples like watermelon. Fortunately, savvy Maritime entrepreneurs make eating locally easier. Starters […]
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Go local in the Hydrostone
The big news in the tony Hydrostone Market is that the delightful Rogi Orazio Pasta & World Cucina has closed. Hamachi Kita, now at 5543 Young, will be moving into the Rogi Orazio space at 5537 Young this week. Hamachi Kita will move one door over and a casual bistro, called Little Europe, will be […]
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Best Bakery
Have you tried The Diplomat? As stylish as the name suggests, its a bread-puddling/chocolate croissant cake, one of the thick and delightful products born out of the Chester-based bakery with its Hydrostone location, Farmers’ Market presence and treats found in a few choice eateries in town. They rock the sweet things (carrot cakes, croissants, tarts, […]