February 1, 2012





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Chocolatier uses old technique for new creations

At the back of his shop in downtown Toronto, Daniel Stubbe uses a piping bag filled with tempered chocolate. With expert precision, he traces the outline of a template design in milk chocolate. Then he fills in the rest of the cake surface with either white or dark chocolate.

“The ornaments are two dimensional,” he said. “But you can also do piped, three-dimensional centrepieces where you pipe half of an image, and then stick it together and build a three dimensional piece.”



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Black History Month kicks off with dramatic fare

Caroline, or Change, written by Tony Kushner, chronicles the life and relationships of a black maid and her daughter over a six week period in late 1963. It is fraught with tension related to the rise of Martin Luther King and the racial unease of the US Deep South.