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This Sunday, the Toronto neighbourhood of Leslieville will hold Bacon Fest 2012, a bacon cooking competition showcasing the skills of area restaurant chefs and butchers. The competitors will be:

• Le Papillon on the Park cooking Green Gate Farms’ bacon
• Waffle Bar and Mr. Spinners cooking Highmark Farms’ traditional-style bacon
• Glas Restaurant cooking Highmark Farms’ wild boar bacon
• Wheelbarrow Farm cooking their own traditional-style bacon
• Ying Ying Soy Food cooking with their own tofu bacon

In addition to competing, they’ll also be selling their bacon-based dishes for you to try.

The bacon-based fun happens this Sunday, August 12th at Jonathan Ashbridge Park (Queen Street East, a few blocks west of Coxwell) and runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.. I think I’ll be there.

Long before Angry Birds on smartphones, we had Tetris on the Nintendo Game Boy and its monochrome screen that could display four levels of “grey” (actually a dark olive green).

I was a regular at Sasloves Meat Market when I lived in Ottawa last summer. They’re a great butcher shop that carries a treat that I haven’t been able to find anywhere else too easily: maple bacon sausages. They’re bacon artistes, so I’m not surprised that they have the sign above.

…the rains continue and the city is flooded. Good thing I visited during the start of the rainy season and not now.

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It’s a holiday Monday for many of us of Canada — Civic Holiday! I have no idea why it hasn’t been adopted nationwide; who wouldn’t want a long weekend at the start of August?

No matter how you’re spending today, whether it’s going out for a drive…

…or catching a movie (that’s on my agenda for later tonight)…

…or going to a museum or art gallery…

In case you’re wondering, the painting’s name is Gabrielle d’Estrées et une de ses soeurs (Gabrielle d’Estrées and one of here sisters) and it’s in the Louvre.

…or just hangin’ out…

…or working…

…have a great day today!

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Duke’s Cycle, where I used to get my bike serviced when I lived in their neck of the woods, just posted the image above on their Facebook page. Since I’m a regular city cyclist who usually shuttles between home in High Park and downtown on my trusty deVinci, one of those no-good pro-bicycle people and a poker-of-fun at His Worship, the Mayor of Toronto when called for, I’m intrigued. I guess we’ll find out on August 7th.