Gottingen Street’s The Carrot (2063 Gottingen Street)—a community grocer that opened about a year ago, after winning an Aviva Community Fund grant—is closing at the end of next week. The co-op announced the sudden closure in a members’ email sent out this morning, stating: “Unfortunately, we simply do not have sufficient capital to continue operating […]
The Carrot
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Secret to success
“The tried and tested ingredients of food and music are the great cementers of community and relationships,” says Sobaz Benjamin. The executive director of the community group In My Own Voice has been thinking a lot about those key ingredients lately, in planning—along with iMOVe team Kyle Hamilton, MJ Loppie, Delton Colley and Enze Yang; […]
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Super markets
The European Pantry Cheese, bread, olive oil, chocolate, deli meats—y’know, the things they do better in Europe—plus loads of other groceries, and prepared take-away foods. 6516 Chebucto Road Ca-Hoa Grocery For 40-plus years this huge, family-run Asian grocery has been providing dishes, fresh veg and hard-to-find packaged goods and sauces. 5483 Victoria Road The Carrot […]
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Eat this: Cabbage Patch Kimchi
When Jessie Palmer came home to Cape Breton after four years of teaching in Seoul, she missed Korean food almost immediately. Almost. “I was really excited to eat a lot of cheese and bread, and I did that for a week and then I felt really awful,” she laughs. That’s when Palmer started making her […]
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Community cooks
“It’s a local grocery store that’s trying to change the philosophy of what you think of as a grocery store,” says chef Paul Routhier of Gottingen Street’s The Carrot. “It’s the type of place you pop in every two or three days and buy what’s fresh.” But beyond that, the co-op grocery store is focused […]