Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Feed from the world


Contemporary Toronto continues to sustain itself in two realities at once, hanging unquestioningly onto its whitebread WASP past until it can't be sustained anymore, then proceeding by committee and consultation into its multicult mode. If the default here is an accident of history, then change is going to be as calculated as possible. After years of hot dogs as our only legal street food, the city has finally varied the available menu.

You can totally hear the debates they must have had: Are all the continents fairly represented? Are two Asian choices okay, considering we have no South American representation (and what a missed opportunity! Empanadas! Papousas!)? Is Greek European or is it more Middle Eastern? Do we offend upper middle class sensibilities with jerk chicken on St. Clair? I say, open it up to anybody with a recipe and a food safety certificate and then close down the losers.

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