Family Meal
The Creator The husband-and-wife chef-and-sommelier duo Juan Lopez Luna and Lindsay Brennan bring authentic Mexican masa to Montréal.
Block Magazine
Creativity has its place
Spring/Summer 2025 (Issue 30)
From Scratch
The Business Kate Taylor Martin of Nutbar wants us to feel good—as we’re meant to.
The Starting Block 30
Starting Block On this issue’s theme: food and drink.
Plant-based Salmon by New School Foods
Made New School Foods perfects the flake in plant-based salmon.
Food Security
Work-In-Progress Sundance Harvest makes space for marginalized youth to farm.
Flatbreads by Sameer Farooq
Artist’s Block Sameer Farooq’s block is a comfort (food).
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The Moment A meal shared with The Abibiman Project during Black History Month.
Home Made
My Space Candied citrus and antique salt and pepper shakers in Camilla Wynne’s home kitchen.
Room for Dessert
The Interior A look inside the award-winning pastry shop Hof Sucrée.
Sonic Treat
Make room for the arts The Allied Music Centre welcomes new artists-in-residence.
Biscuits on the Beltline
Now & Then A history of furniture sales and baking preserved in Calgary’s Biscuit Block.
Nolan Pelletier
Fill In The Blank Nolan Pelletier’s urban infill.
Set the Table!
The Blueprint Make your own tablescape.
375 Water Street
The 1KM Guide The Magnet, Is That French, and other Gastown must-eats. Plus: top neighbourhood haunts from a tenant in the know.
Food for Thought
The Conversation On telling stories using food as a lens.
Gut Feeling
Rethink Grace before meals? How about food as a form of prayer. / Et si se nourrir était une forme de prière?
Contributors
ILLUSTRATIONS BY KAGAN MCLEOD
Alison Slattery is an Ireland-born, Montréal-based food photographer. She has worked with some of Canada’s best chefs, restaurants, publications and industry tastemakers and shot this issue’s cover subjects (The Creators).
Sameer Farooq is a Toronto-based artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. Farooq puts community-based knowledge at the forefront and has exhibited at institutions around the world. He contributed our Artist’s Block.
Jennifer Foden is an award-winning freelance editor and writer based in Toronto (Made). When not working with words, she’s sports-ing, aunting and overthinking everything.
Joseph Solomon Pepper lives in Toronto. He is a writer, lover, wine merchant and friend. His work is inspired by his time spent walking and taking the bus (Rethink).
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Kristina Ljubanovic
CREATIVE DIRECTORS
Yasemin Emory, Whitney Geller, Jacqueline Lane
COMMISSIONING EDITOR
Mélanie Ritchot
PHOTO & ILLUSTRATION EDITOR / ICONOGRAPHE
Catherine Dean
ASSISTANT PHOTO & ILLUSTRATION EDITOR / ASSISTANT ICONOGRAPHE
Michael Nyarkoh
DESIGNERS / GRAPHISTES
Ralph Damman, Grant Irving
TRANSLATOR / TRADUCTRICE
Catherine Connes
COPY EDITORS – PROOFREADERS / RÉVISEURES – CORRECTRICES
Suzanne Aubin, Jane Fielding, Lesley Fraser
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