Amazon, like other tech giants, is selectively banning and deplatforming pro-Palestine content on its Merch on Demand platform, while racist and inflammatory merchandise continue to be sold.
Some of the most successful restaurants in Toronto right now are ones you’ve never heard of. These are restaurants with wincingly pun-forward names (Wrap Me Up, Bite Me Grill), or names that evoke locations they don’t really occupy. They’ve never offered in-person dining, have no front-of-house staff to furlough, often don’t have physical storefronts. They share commissary or hub kitchens capable of producing dozens of cuisines, with food prepared exclusively for takeout or delivery, which makes its way to customers through third-party apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash and SkipTheDishes. Some of these restaurants are, in a way, fictional. The food, of course, is real (and of a quality that varies as much as restaurants themselves do), but all the things associated with a sit-down restaurant ambience, aesthetics, knowledgable servers carrying plates and flatware have been abandoned in the name of convenience, choice, necessity and speed.
Posted by Fiona Beckett(Google+) on January 8 2021 at 10:53
Back in March when Covid first hit I remember thinking ‘no-one’s going to want to think about food and wine pairing’ and put my match of the week feature on hold.
How wrong I was! Turned out that home cooking and pairing delicious drinks with it was one of the highlights of this bizarre year. And because I tended to reach for a bottle that was to hand rather than choosing a wine I knew I liked off a wine list it produced some interesting new combinations - almost every one a winner