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That time of year for the most popular couples sushi making class. Valentine’s Day: Lovers EditionDate: Saturday February 14th, 5pm-8pm. Go to Classes for details on how to book your spot. Act quickly because there is only room for 20 couples. SOLD OUT!

It is approaching that time of year again. Company Christmas parties or a celebratory evening with friends and family. Why not do something really special? Experience what thousands of people across this country have openly stated is the best sushi making class EVER since the…dawn of fish! For those of you responsible for organizing the

In October, Sushi Making For The Soul will be working closely with two great organizations to raise awareness about- and find practical solutions to- the very real crisis of childhood poverty and hunger all around us. At Toronto Foundation of Student Success, during the week of the 6th to the 10th, I will be hosting

Every September, Sushi Making For The Soul offers a free class for children to raise awareness about food literacy issues, including childhood poverty and hunger. This year, in preparation for two major awareness campaigns I will be involved in, there will be two sushi making classes, one at the end of September and the other

Lovely shots at a recent class by one of my favourite photographers, Craig Bagol. http://www.craigbagolphotography.com/blog/2014/8/27/svhd4m9oolgoyqnpgm9knifftblrad

The town of Linares (pop. 70,000), in the landlocked north-eastern state of Nuevo León, is a two-hour drive south from Monterrey. Despite my frenetic schedule (I was in the process of opening my latest restaurant, Windup Bird Cafe) I went to Linares because one of my favourite poets, Colin Carberry, who lives there with his wife-

On Saturday November 16, 2013, I gave a TEDx Talk to an auditorium full of high school students at the Ontario Science Centre. Food Literacy: Equal to Math, Science and Languages? Um, yes! Photo courtesy: Nicholas Jones The theme of this year’s talks was: “Discover”. The speakers were each asked to fill in the blank after the

Those who have taken my classes know how important the issue of food literacy for children is to me. I start every session talking about it before we get down to the nuts and bolts of making sushi itself. It all stems from my experience of growing up in the Jane-Finch housing projects, where welfare

This post was published by the HUFFINGTON POST as”How Death Changed Our Child”. You can read it here. That the flash flood felt, by Toronto standards, Biblical in scale, brought Noah and his ark to mind. I had made it to the airport mere minutes ahead of the news of submerged cars, power outages, and flooded subway