Vaughan Public Libraries hosts a monthly Cooking Conversation Circle where we invite English learners to teach us and other participants how to make a dish of their choosing and get the chance to practice using English as a speaker/presenter, while getting to know others in the community. We encourage speakers to present with a friend or family member if they’d like! If you are interested in sharing a dish through this program, take a look below for more details!
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How many times has this happened to you? The food looks mouthwatering. The presentation, stunning. The scents waft up towards you to complete the picture as you’re tempted to take your first bite. But no. The camera eats first.
By the time you’ve arranged and rearranged the plates on the table to get the right lighting, walked around the table to find the right perspective, and finally taken the perfect shot, the food has gone cold. No more! Come join our Food Styling & Photography program with Julia Konovalova, author of The Ultimate Guide to Food Styling and The Ultimate One-Pan Oven Cookbook, for a hands-on workshop where you’ll get to learn tips and tricks behind how to get the perfect shot, every time, to make your food look as delicious on camera as it does in reality! The workshop takes place Saturday October 26, 10am-12pm, and costs $7+HST to register.
And not a moment too soon, because you know what else is coming up? Halloween, followed by the holidays! You’ll be prepared just in time to perfectly capture the spooky vibes haunting the ghastly bites you prepare for any Halloween party you host or attend. And if you haven’t yet decided what you’ll be making, be sure to sign up for our Kitchen SCREAM for Halloween program, where we’ll be whipping up something eerie for the season.
And if you’re still looking for creepy treats and dishes to make, along with spoopy shows to set the tone, look no further! Here are some recommendations to get you prepared for the season:
Never skip a leg day, yes, but you probably shouldn’t skip a glute day either: the maximus gluteus is the biggest muscle in your body, and training your glutes can help with your posture, preventing back pain, and more!
I know I’m not supposed to judge a book by its cover and all, but just look at it! The moment I saw the cover on a list of recent releases, I knew I’d end up picking this up. It might seem an odd pick, but I’ve found I tend to be interested in microhistories, especially somewhat cheeky ones, as you may already be aware, so obviously I gravitated towards it the moment I saw it. In this age of Instagram and scrunch butt leggings*, not to mention post-2014, which was apparently Year of the Butt(?), it might sound a bit disingenuous to say that I hadn’t really given butts that much thought, but I went in thinking exactly this. As I started reading though, I slowly came to the realization that I had, in fact, absorbed more about butts than I’d realized without much conscious thought: Radke covered the ground I expected to be covered for a book on the female butt – how it’s been viewed throughout the ages in Western culture, the history & symbolism of this part of the body – but I also found myself wishing it were more filled out, in part because a lot of this ground has been covered elsewhere. Granted, I would still recommend this book for the convenience of having it all in one place, for anyone who is interested in learning about our fascination with the maximus gluteus, as the nature of that obsession (as a society, if not as individuals) has changed over the years.
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