LCBO Food & Drink Spring 2025

SPRING 2025

Chief Marketing and Digital Officer, LCBO Vanda Provato

EDITORIAL Editor Jody Dunn Drinks Editor Charlene Rooke Food Editor Eric Vellend Content Editors Jessica Huras, Victoria Walsh

Publication Coordinator Jessie O’Donnell Publication Assistant Piper MacFadyen

ART Creative Director Cathy Cicchini Senior Designers Emilie Simpson, Rose Pereira Graphic Production Pat Turbach

CONTRIBUTORS James Chatto, Michael Elliott, Lindsay Guscott, Katie Hayden, Andrea McCrindle, Kris Osborne, Megan Powell, Stacey Smithers, Jordan St. John, Christopher St. Onge, Christine Sismondo, Michele Sponagle, James Tse, Maya Visnyei, Doug Wallace PRODUCTION Senior Manager Andrew Lawson Production Assistant Everton Smith Image Editing & Prepress Levon Gosdanian, Enhanced Pixels

SALES Publisher Leslie Bolter

Kirby Miller, Beaches Media Services kirby@beachesmediaservices.com

DILL-ICIOUS! Make the most of your homemade pickles. Coming Next Issue

LCBO prices include tax and bottle deposit and are subject to change without notice.

AVAILABLE JUNE 25

Look for the products featured in this issue in LCBO stores and online at LCBO.com.

For general inquiries about Food & Drink magazine or information about LCBO products and policy, please visit lcbocustomercare.com, or call toll-free 1.800.668.5226 or 416.365.5900. TTY Only: 416.864.6898 or 1.800.361.3291. All advertiser applications are subject to the terms and conditions of the LCBO’s advertising agreement. Food & Drink is published five times a year by the Liquor Control Board of Ontario. Volume 32, Number 4. Food & Drink is printed on paper that contains 10 per cent post‑consumer fibre. Food & Drink is recyclable in communities participating in magazine recycling programs. Publication Mail Agreement No. 40064521 Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Food & Drink , 100 Queens Quay East, 9th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 0C7 ISSN 1195-5988

Not all of the wines, spirits and beers mentioned in Food & Drink will be available at all LCBO stores. Cette publication est également disponible en français.

TOTALLY CHILL Sorbet plus bubbly equals fabulous cocktails

TOMATO TIME Tasty recipes for summer’s favourite crop

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