Monday, November 16, 2009

Christmas Cooking in Europe Talk&Tasting November, 29!

Thank you for coming to our benefit concert last year. This year the Museum of Childhood would like to invite you to another benefit event on Sunday, November 29 at 2.30 pm, a grand talk and tasting celebrating old-style European Christmas Foods. Entrance fee is $20 (refreshments and recipes included).

This benefit Talk&Tasting is presented by Sasha Grigorieva. Sasha Grigorieva is a food and wine writer, culinary educator, and food words researcher with a Ph.D. in Classics, member of the Culinary Historians of Ontario. As a Julia Child scholar 2005 she travelled in Europe researching forgotten regional recipes. Traditional celebration foods of Europe is one of her special areas of interest. Her talk will feature Italy, France, Germany, and England and their Christmas traditions with illustrative tastings. A special European Christmas recipe collection will be provided as our Holiday present to our supporters.

Time&Place
Sunday, November 29 at 2.30 p.m. 239 College St.Lillian H. Smith Branch of the Toronto Public Library,Basement Level, room A
Get directions here: http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/hou_az_ls.jsp

Bring your frineds and family for an unforgettable experience!
Season's greetings from the Museum of Childhood.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Welcome to the Museum of Childhood

Welcome! We invite you all to our amazing event in Toronto at the Heliconian http://www.heliconianclub.org/contact.html on Thursday, April 10 at 8 p.m. Coenraad Bloemendal will play cello, soprano Jennifer Griffith will sing and Elizabeth Acker will play the piano.
Tickets at the door are only $25 (all proceedings will help us to find housing for our great collection of historic toys), the music (an unusual selection of rarely-performed Classical works by Mozart, Beethoven and so on) will be amazing, refreshments will include wine and artisanal cheese from the glorious Monforte Dairy but that's not all! We'll be displaying some items of our historic collection in the hall and there'll be a couple of surprises too. So don't miss the highlight of this Spring, our wonderful concert.