Toronto, Ontario, the World's Culinary 'Meeting Place'by Sonja Albrecht Toronto, Ontario earned the United Nation’s praise as the most multicultural city in the world—an honor befitting the city whose name is the Mohawk word for “meeting place.” For cooking school students, this means you’ll experience firsthand the best that the international culinary community has to offer. Toronto, Ontario’s population of 4.7 million represents over 100 ethnic groups. The city’s official languages are English and French, but it’s not uncommon to hear Tamil, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. A tour of the city’s neighborhoods offers a chef education in world cultures. Little Italy, Greektown, Little India, Japantown, and Chinatown are home to many of the city’s 7,000 restaurants. Cooking schools in Toronto, Ontario allow students to rub elbows with the world’s most innovative chefs. Susur Lee practices his craft here, with results that command almost absurdly glowing reviews: “culinary genius;” “dazzling;” “with his kind of vision, there are no boundaries.” Your chef education may also be influenced by someone like Masayuki Tamaru, who has made Toronto his new home, or Marc Thuet, a longtime star of the Toronto, Ontario restaurant scene. When not in your cooking school’s kitchen, further your chef education with a day trip into the Ontario countryside. This is wine country, after all, and you can expect a firsthand introduction to the region’s best wine and five-star cuisine. Niagara-on-the-Lake, with its flowering gardens, wineries, and inns, is considered the prettiest town in Canada. Toronto, Ontario offers one of the best settings for a chef education. Aside from its world-class cooking schools, the city’s cosmopolitan flair and multicultural vitality make for an exciting place to live and absorb the world’s culinary wisdom. Sources“Toronto,” OntarioTravel.net About the AuthorSonja Albrecht works as a writer and editor for an online media company. She has also taught college writing and completed a Ph.D. in English.
Posted on November 10, 2006 at 11:46 AM
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