I attend the third annual Best Butter Tart Festival in Midland Ontario and discover the tart's latest incarnation. The deep-fried butter tart is nothing short of sublime. I chat with fest founder Barb Rowlandson and inventor Cathy Moreau about how it came to be. Nobu Adilman, a judge in the butter tart competition, also offers his take on this all Canadian dessert.

Douglas Quint and Bryan Petroff are partners in life and in business. They started their Big Gay Ice Cream enterprise with a food truck in New York. Now they operate several ice cream shops and have a snazzy book called Big Gay Ice Cream.

I chat with Francis Lam at the Terroir Symposium in Toronto about his childhood food memories, his appearances as a judge of TV food show ‘Top Chef Masters’ and his unusual, delicious rendition of ratatouille.

I chat with Daniel Young of the award-winning website youngandfoodish.com about his passion for fish and chips. Formerly a restaurant critic in New York, he now lives in London where we met at Camden Town's upscale eatery 'Hook'.

I first met Vikram Vij two decades ago and visited his hugely popular Vancouver restaurant Vij's in January 2015. We met a few weeks later at CBC in downtown Toronto and chatted about his mini-empire comprising two restaurants, cookbooks, a line of Indian food products and gigs on television.

I interview Michael Schwartz in the lobby of The Raleigh South Beach. He explains why he moved to Miami from Philadelphia 20 years ago and how he has been at the helm of a food and beverage empire that includes a lovely restaurant at this hotel. Esther Williams performed her famous swimming scenes in the hotel's stunning pool.

Dr. Vera Tarman is medical director of Renascent Treatment Centre in Toronto and a confessed food addict. In her book, Food Junkies, she outlines her controversial approach to food addiction. Tarman advocates abstinence from trigger foods such as sugar, fat, salt, flour and caffeine.

A chef and her husband leave the city of Toronto to restore a vintage farmhouse near the village of Creemore in southern Ontario. Their focus is locally-grown seasonal food carefully prepared at the lovely bed and breakfast Mad Maple.

I helped organize three gala fundraisers for which a team of Toronto's top female chefs donated their time and food. The money raised helped renovate and equip Sistering's wonderful new kitchen. We celebrated with a kitchen party.

I chat with Danny Zimmerman about how his father Zoltan was one of the first Jewish merchants in downtown Toronto's Kensington Market. Decades later, in early 2015, they are handing the torch to Potsothy "Pots" Sallapa and a new group of food vendors.