Summery Marinated Vegetables

Hetty McKinnon’s new charred eggplant recipe is such a good blueprint for summery cooking: Grill a vegetable that’s in season, then, while it’s still warm, let it soak up something delicious. Repeat. Here, the eggplant is sliced and browned in a grill pan until it’s nice and soft, then covered in a dressing made from…

What to See, Eat and Do in Toronto

Canada’s biggest city and North America’s fourth-largest metropolis, Toronto received more than 27.5 million visitors annually before the pandemic, making it Canada’s top tourism destination, according to Destination Toronto, the city’s tourism-marketing arm. As travel rebounds, Canadian tourists are predominating, with traffic from the United States just starting to return and overseas visitors still scant,…

Love and Carriage

I was never one of those little girls who devoured books or movies about horses, whether it was reading Anna Sewell’s 19th-century classic “Black Beauty” or watching a 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor’s violet eyes sparkle with delight whenever she hugged her spirited gelding in “National Velvet.” The embarrassing truth is that I’m afraid of horses: of…