3 food events in Toronto this weekend

Conscious Food Festival

A celebration of local food and sustainability, the Conscious Food Festival is the first-ever Canadian collaborative event to help promote the growing sustainable food movement while introducing thousands of people to food that it local, natural, healthy and delicious.

Graze guilt-free on sustainable, Ontario-grown produce and treats from local chefs while enjoying everything from live music or cooking demos to debates and seminars on this growing movement.

Highlights:

• Meet & mingle with the farmers who feed our city, and some of Ontario’s top chefs
• Taste local sustainable wines and beers and chat with the producers
• Learn about the merits of grassfed beef and how innovative cattle ranchers can reduce their environmental impact
• Challenge yourself to taste the difference between local sustainable ice cream made with real ingredients, and a name brand ice cream made with modified milk ingredients, oils, stabilizers, and preservatives
• Listen to leading speakers on sustainable food
• Enjoy an authentic curry from the war of 1812 cooked over an open flame with vegetables from Evergreen and Fort York’s onsite garden while you explore the Fort
• Live Music, a Kidzone featuring recycled craft making and Fruit & Vegetable based paints

Saturday and Sunday 11am-7pm. Fort York.
Tickets: $18 in advance online, or $23 at the gate (cash only). Admission price includes 5 food/drink sample tickets.

Harbourfront Centre’s Hot and Spicy Food Festival

The Hot & Spicy Food Festival brings sizzling culinary, music, film and dance offerings on the lakefront at Harbourfront Centre.

Culinary events kick off with the return of the International Iron Chef Competition, where gourmet chefs from around the world show off their skills with secret ingredients and top culinary creativity. This year’s competitors include Chef Kevin Zink from New Mexico, Toronto Chef Joshna Maharaj (Winner of the Longo’s Canadian Iron Chef Competition) and Chef Jorika Mhende from Turks & Caicos.

I wish I could spend all weekend there but I’m not even sure if I’ll have a chance to go.

Evergreen Brick Works Wild Blueberry Festival

Sponsored by the Wild Blueberry Association of North America. Featuring our favourite bright blue berry, the Wild Blueberry Festival will be packed with cool events all day long.

Highlights include:

• Blueberry tasting
• Blueberry pie Bake-Off with celebrity judges and fabulous prizes
• Tasty treats at the Slow Food bake sale
• Blueberry pizzas
• Ontario-grown Blueberries for sale by the farmers
• Chefs in attendance include: Chris McDonald (Cava, XOCOCAVA), Brad Long (Food Network’s Restaurant Makeover, Veritas restaurant, My Place Pub), Anthony Rose (The Drake Hotel), Martin Kouprie (Pangaea), Buddha Dog and others!
• Delicious fruit wines by Southbrook Wines.
• Live music.

Sunday from 11am-4pm. Find out more!

Have a great weekend, everyone.

Eat well, be well.