[Charity Event] 8th Annual Recipe For Change was a party to remember

Food Share (http://foodshare.net/) works with communities and schools to deliver healthy food and food education. Food share does a lot for the community and knows how to organize a party! Recipe for Change includes 3 hours of unlimited food and drink under one big tent. Follow @FoodshareTO on Twitter to receive their latest news and try to grab the early bird tickets next year!

St. Lawrence Market

Top reasons why this year was my most memorable year yet:

• The organization and the attention to detail was spot on!
  • As media, I was able to arrive 30 mins before the event officially opened. This allowed me to take most of my photos before the crowd arrived. My hands were free to enjoy the food and drinks the rest of the evening!
  • The lighting was brighter than previous years with several light box stations set up. Brighter lighting means better photos to share with all of you! If only they can create windows in the tent to bring in natural light.
  • Lots of volunteers came around often with round plastic buckets to collect our waste.
  • The event was sold out, yet they allowed a good capacity inside the tent. Line ups were minimal and short.
  • The give-away bag we each received upon leaving had useful products including the Sapsucker maple tree filtered water, healthy food samples, cookies and Foodshare information.
• The Food. I loved the variety this year! I even went back for thirds at selective stations…oysters being one of them.
• There was an an amazing line up of Chefs!

30 Chefs and Beverage Vendors at Recipe For Change 2017:

1. Ricky Casipe Hawthorne Food and Drink
2. Therese Degrace The Good Earth Food and Wine Company
3. Paola Solorzano  Santo Pecado
4. David Lee Planta
5. Chateau Des Charmes Bosc Family Wines
6. Filipe Faccioli Mata Bar Toronto
7. Steffan Howard Palais Royale
8. Amreen Omar  Bombay Street Food
9. Beau’s All Natural  Brewing Company
10. Leonard Anel & Sybil Pinnock FoodShare 
11. Rocco Agostino Pizzeria Libretto
12. Luis Valenzuela Carmen Cocina Espanola
13. Chef Nuit and Jeff Regular Pai Toronto
14. Evis Chirowamhangu Mnandi Pies
15. Nick Liu DaiLo
16. Renee Bellefeuille Frank at the AGO
17. Kriston Donovan  Hooked
18. Bashir Munye  My Little Dumplings
19. Bertrand Alepee  The Tempered Room
20. Cynthia Leung & David Castellan SOMA Chocolate
21. Southbrook Vineyards Biodynamic Winery
22. Dave Mottershall Loka
23. Craft Beer Great Lakes Brewery 
24. Tea and Botanicals Beverage Empower T
25. Organic winery Frogpond Vineyard
26. Johl Ringuette Nishdish 
27. Grange of Prince Edward
28. Valerie Krompac & Csaba Nagy The Cake Collective 
29. Melanie Bozzo The Plant YYZ
30. Andres Solomon Barsa Taberna

Here were my top 15  dishes of the evening:

1.Dailo– Pumpkin dumplings with a soy brown butter sauce, “White Rabbit Candy” glaze and pepita crumble.

 2. Loka- Pan roasted mushrooms, truffled potato and deer lichen.

3. Little Dumplings- Berbere roasted local mushrooms and sunshine slaw on injera crisps.

4. Hawthorne Food & Drink– Duck heart tocilog.

5. Santo Pecado– Pork medallion.

6. Palaise Royale Ballroom- Monforte Dairy goat cheese waffle cone.

7. Hooked-Fresh shucked east and west coast oysters.

8. Pai Northern Thai Kitchen- Spicy grilled pork jowl salad.

9. Bombay Street Food– Mumbai Vada Pav with various chutneys.

10. AGO– Vegetarian poke with sticky soy bean and chia seeds, pickled veggies, miso-yuzu dressing and fried taro.

11. Mnandi Pies– Zimbabwean style mini pie bites with Peri Peri baobab sauce.

12. Providore Catering– Wild mushroom arancini.

13. The Good Earth Food and Wine. Co- Urban Hipster Pho.

14. Soma Chocolatermaker– Pomegranate molasss meltaway, Southbrook Vineyards truffle, and dark chocolate.

15. Holi Cannoli- Fresh filled cannoli.

I did not get to try the chouquettes filled with passion fruit cream from ‘The Tempered Room’,  and know it would have been on my list above. They were out of the dessert by the time I came around at the end of the evening. I should have eaten it when I took the picture!

The Tempered Room

Another wonderful event for the books! Also, read about the 2016 & 2015 experience.