Tomorrow we leave all of the nice people in Canada for the Windy City. Can’t believe we left home 120 day ago and covered so many miles and had so many adventures.
Today was quiet, we spent another glorious fall day enjoying Toronto. We love the architecture and old and new and shiny skyscrapers towering over the cityscape. Really impressive city.
The one thing we love most about our travels is the food. It’s gorgeous and colorful and tasty and FRESH. We definitely have plans to shop and eat like Europeans and Canadians.
Of course the fabulous people and places have etched a place in our hearts and memories forever.
We walked to the St Lawrence Market and enjoyed the sights and smells. Fish and meats and cheeses and vegetables and fruit and olives and coffees and spices and flowers and baked goods – PURE YUMMMMMM!!!
Future Bakery is a family- run business. It all started with my Polish grandfather in Czarist Russia.
After numerous years of study and apprenticeship he received a diploma as a masterbaker from Czar Nicholas’s court. He ended up baking in the court until 1915. Along the way home from St. Petersburg he met my Ukrainian grandmother. My grandparents married and set up a successful bakery in Ternopil.
With the outbreak of World War Il and the arrival of the Red Army, the family fled west. After the war they arrived in Canada and opened up a small bakery. They named it Future because they wished to leave behind the past and were looking to the future in their new country.
Today the bakery is run by my father and myself. We still use my grandparents recipes for our breads and we have taken to heart their advice that: “If you always do that little bit extra when making our products, the quality will come through.”
I had a scrumptious lobster roll
And Jeff had pork
Monster carrots and they smelled so sweet
Our mission when we return home is to find fresh everything….
We’re excited to spend time in Chicago with Sally & family, a surprise visit with our Irish cousin, cheer on our Blackhawks and spend a day at the Obama Presidential library. I miss 44, and think the world is right there with me.
