This weekend we visited the city of Toronto to celebrate Robyn and Matt's wedding. We had a wonderful time seeing friends from California, exploring the city, and enjoying the friendly Canadian people. We discovered the lovely St. Lawrence Market in downtown Toronto, mere blocks from our hotel. This is a wonderful public market, much like those in Seattle, San Francisco, and Philadelphia, where local cheeses, breads, meats, and other specialties are available. These are among my favorite places to visit in other cities, and we are very hopeful that Boston will have one soon...there has been talk of this for some time, and the Globe reports that donors have pledged millions to make this happen!
Catherine enjoying fresh-baked bread in the St. Lawrence Market.While Andrew was involved in wedding preparations, Catherine explored the city on her own. After a visit to see China's terracotta warriors at the Royal Ontario Museum, I took a hike into Chinatown. It's not the biggest Chinatown I've seen, but it was one of the busiest places I've been! I was pushed down the sidewalk in a tide of people while I examined the produce in the many groceries. While the produce was likely not local, I was happy to experience the sights and smells of traditional Chinese cooking.
Views of Chinatown.
Squeezing sugarcane to make a drink. 
I'm canning King, Pink and Silver salmon right now. I love seeing Toronto Markets. So far from Kodiak. Patrick
ReplyDeleteWhat's funny is that in the old days Faneuil Hall was a farmer's market. It's ironic that as an urban renewal project from the late 1970s it was converted into a sort of food mall. And really it was far ahead of its time in terms of a community waterfront fix up project. But what's sad is that if it had been redone in 2000 or so it would probably have been done as a farmer's market! That's the trendy thing today and so much better than a mall. Patrick
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