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ISSUE Nº1 T FALL WINTER 2010 TERRONI MAGAZINE Giddy-up: the goods on horse meat Got 14 hours to spare over the holidays? Then do we have the menu for you! Our regulars dish on what's hot for Fall In the kitchen with Carlo Rota A verbal flight of Piemonte's wine: just in time too because our barolos are here Skinny Bitch Italian-style: Lose 30 lbs in 30 days on our all-proscuitto diet! Balsamic vinegar gets graphic 3 T Contributor’s TERRONI MAGAZINE Carolyn Pioro / Carolyn Pioro, former circus-aerialist turned aspiring Publisher editor, is currently completing Ryerson’s Magazine Publishing Elena di Maria program. She copyedits, writes, and speaks publicly for the Canadian Paraplegic Association. Poised to write a fashion-forecasting column Editor-in-Chief for IZ (designer Izzy Camilleri’s new adaptive clothing line), the robot-enthusiast, Jessica Allen University of Toronto graduate, and former all-star Terroni server incorporates her new interest in health and technology with past loves of fashion, the arts and all- Design things whimsical. Small Assistant Editors Meagan Albrectson, Stephanie Palmer / This Mom, Wife, Restaurant Manager, and Once Tara Downs, in a Blue Moon Photographer, was introduced to her mother’s Pentax Rick Kang K1000 at the age of 16 and fell in love. The affair, in all its ambitious yet unrequited glory, continues. She completed her Honours Bachelor Copy Editors of Arts in Mass Communications & French Studies at York University in 1996 and Carolyn Pioro, in 2000 she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Christopher Allen Design. Stephanie currently lives in Toronto with her husband Larry and their two bunnies. She’s been with Terroni since 1998. Visit stephaniepalmerphotography.com Columnists Giovanna Alonzi, Max Stefanelli Jessica Brooks / When she isn’t in the kitchen baking up a storm, Admin. Managers Jessica is serving at Terroni and reading and tweeting about food. She Patti Shaw, received her formal journalism training at Humber College, from where THE Karina Watson she holds a postgraduate degree. She’s worked as an assistant producer for iCast News at the United Nations in New York and as an online producer at The BERKSHIRE Contributors Canadian Press in Toronto. But it’s the edible news that really gets her going. Follow “COLLEctION” Jessica Brooks, her on Twitter @Brookscooks. Rick Kang, AVAILABLE Sandra Kang, EXCLUSIVELY Cosimo Pagliacolo, Stephanie Palmer, Rick and Sandra Kang / They say good taste runs in the family. Rick AT TERRONI Natalie Urquhart, and Sandra Kang (and their mother) would have to agree. Both siblings Jim Norton, worked at Terroni at one time or another. Sandra is a graphic designer Tony Lanz, living in New York City; Rick is a copywriter living in Toronto. Both Ashley Denton still proudly represent Scarboro. Thanks to Steven Di Donato, Simon Gadke, Jim Norton / Jim doesn’t know that we’re writing this, but we can’t let Albion Macleod, his generosity go unmentioned. This photographer, whose work can be Anna Mammoliti, found in Canadian Living, Food & Drink, and Homemakers magazines Cosimo Mammoliti, (to name a few), can be found most evenings sitting with his lovely wife Vince Mammoliti, Tonya at the Terroni Queen Street bar. When we asked Jim to do the cover shoot for Ian McGrenaghan, our inaugural issue, he jumped at the chance—and so too did his assistant Tony Lanz Eva Michon, and food stylist Ashley Denton. We couldn’t have done it without them. Cassandra Mosher, Hanna Puley, Jill Riley, John Szabo, Printed in Canada T Magazine Contact Us Alex Tellez Headquarters For all inquiries, Printed on Rolland 720 Queem St. W. please email: Enviro 100 Paper Toronto M6J 1E8 [email protected] Contains FSC certified 100% post-consumer fibre Certified EcoLogo, Processed Chlorine Free and FSC Recycled THE TERRONI INDEX 4 5 DISH IT OUT EAT YOUR HEART OUT by Meagan What TerroNI REGULarS Albrechtson compiled by Jessica Allen & Tara Downs ARE OBSESSING ABOUT THIS FALL Number of years Parma has been making Parmigiano Reggiano cheese : 800 Richard Baldwin, Current food obsession: I enjoy blue new dish is Agnolotti di Manzo con Managing cheese and red wine combinations. I Burro e Salvia. Kilograms of Parmigiano Reggiano used at Terroni every month : 96 (three wheels) Partner, Mathews suggest Cosimo’s father-in-law’s fabulous Devotee since: The Victoria Street Number of European countries finding German “mozzarella balls” that had turned inky blue :14 Dinsdale Law Montepulciano Merula (Salento Rosso) restaurant opened in the mid-1990s. The Firm with any light or medium blue cheese. service, food, and wine at all locations are Total number of mozzarella balls that had turned blue : 70,000 Terroni addiction: Pappardelle alla Iosa is always first rate. my favourite comfort food. My favourite Number of subsequent red ricotta cheese sightings : 1 Litres of milk produced by a lactating mother in one year : 330 Chris Kelos, Current food obsession: Not an salad. Senior Marketing obsession, but I bought a Misono Chef Devotee since: I started going to the Average number of caffè lattes sold annually at Terroni restaurant :18,492 Manager, Coldwell knife from Knife on Queen Street. Queen Street location the first week it Number of lactating mothers it would take to provide Terroni with milk for one year : 12 Banker Case Realty Terroni addiction: I love the A Fagiolo opened. Yeah, hard core regulars. Average number of litres of wine an Italian consumes in a year : 26 Cyril Kendall, Current food obsession: I really enjoy the the Santo Spirito. PhD, Professor harvest and the fresh fruit and vegetables. Devotee since: Terroni Queen Street since Average number that a Canadian consumes : 15 w Nutritional Terroni addiction: Pasta or Gnocchetti it opened. I first noticed it from across Percentage of Americans who’d choose drinking over other vices if there was no health risk involved : 5 Sciences, alla Norma –love the Mezze Maniche. the street while sitting in the old Squeeze University of BRING IT BACK. In terms of food, what Club. Percentage who’d choose eating whatever they wanted : 43 Toronto got me hooked was the pizza, especially Calories and grams of fat in a small cheese pizza from Pizza Pizza : 1080 / 50 Laura Serra, Social Current food obsession: Every Fall I make number one. I will also say this: I’ve been Calories and grams of fat in a Margherita pizza from Terroni : 626 / 22 Page Editor, The gnocchi with my Nonna and of course, known to order two servings (don’t judge) Globe and Mail we make it by hand. One of the steps is because I just can’t get enough. A close Percentage of Italian population reported by the Organization for shredding the potato (my job) and it’s the second is the Santo Stefano pizza. Economic Co-operation and Development to be “obese” : 10 part I loathe the most—it’s back-breaking Devotee since: I’ve only ever eaten at the Percentage of Canadian population reported by the OECD to be “obese” : 18 and dangerous! I recently used a potato Queen Street location and only ever will. ricer instead and it worked like a charm. So It’s in my neighbourhood, some of the staff Number of Domino’s Pizza locations in Italy : 0 now I use it for everything! feel like family, and it feels like a second Terroni addiction: I’m a simple gal—the home. Terroni has been part of my life for Average number of minutes Canadians spend eating daily : 60 Spaghetti ca’ Pummarola n’Goppa is my almost five years. And I love it. Average number of minutes Italians spend : 110 Simon Sutcliffe, Current food obsession: I have always I enjoy its unique flavor and texture and I Number of editions of the Italian cooking bible, The Science of Cooking and the Art of Eating Well : 111 13 year-old son of loved corn grilled on the barbeque, which think this is their best dish! Average number of vacation days Canadians received in 2009 : 19 architects Brigitte has gotten me hooked on barbecuing with Devotee since: I have been coming to Shim & Howard charcoal and wood and the great smoky Terroni with my parents since I was a Average number of vacation days Italians received in the same year : 31 Sutcliffe flavor it adds to food. Our family cottage is newborn. I also enjoy La Bettola but there on an island and we have a classic Weber is no Spaghetti al Limone on the menu Number of days that the Uffizi in Florence was closed in 2009 : 55 black kettle BBQ. there. I am hopeful this may change Number of days that the Canada's Parliament was not in session for 2009 : 232 Terroni addiction: My all-time favorite sometime soon. dish at Terroni is Spaghetti al Limone. Days that Terroni on Queen Street was closed in 2009 : 3½ Erinn Langille, Making I’m a big fan of the Average number of minutes per day that Italian men spend in leisure more than Italian women : 80 Current food obsession: Terroni addiction: Manager, preserves. The big enamel pot, the jar Smendozzata pizza, though it’s hard to Average number of sexual partners Canadian men have in a lifetime versus Italian men : 23 vs. 19 Oddfellows lifters, and all those jars—perfect for pick. making use of the harvest of the garden Devotee since: A devoted customer of Average number of sexual partners Canadian women have in a lifetime versus Italian women : 10 vs. 7 and prolonging the season’s best through Queen street location for at least six Number of years since La Dolce Vita was released : 50 the winter.