Cynthia Wine

If you give any thought to brunch, you might consider it just another meal around which to while away your weekend. But, according to Shawn Micallef, Toronto Star columnist, academic and man about town, in joining the herd for this trendy meal you are committing a political act that marks you as insensitive to the social threats and inequalities around…

There is a very interesting double message going on in today’s culture that has to do with food. Love and redemption through a decent meal have become as much a cliché of the modern art film as the notion of overfeeding oneself to compensate for a lack of self-love has become a convention of armchair…