LCBO Food & Drink Travel 2025

FRAGRANT SIPS Perfume your cocktails with aromatic ingredients

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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 Contributing Art Director David Taylor

Senior Designers Emilie Simpson, Rose Pereira Graphic Production Pat Turbach

CONTRIBUTORS Laura Branson, James Chatto, Sage Dakota, Carol Dudar, Michael Elliott, Rob Fiocca, Lindsay Guscott, Katie Hayden, Ivy Knight, Michelle Lucas Larving, Irene Matys, Andrea McCrindle, Kris Osborne, Megan Powell, Michelle Rabin, Christopher St. Onge, Shelly Shnier, 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

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ELEVATE YOUR BRUNCH GAME! Fabulous new recipes for a modern brunch

SPRINGTIME SPEARS Delectable asparagus recipes to honour the season

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