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Morning Throwback: before Top Chef Canada, Toronto had this

By Brianne Hogan

Labour Department cooking school, between 1940-1960 (Toronto Archives: Fonds 1257, Series 1057, Item 2116)

Before Top Chef of Canada had us eating out of its hand, there was the Labour Department Cooking School. True, it doesn’t look as cutthroat as the reality TV show we’ve become addicted to, but the looks on those judges’ (customers? guinea pigs?) faces tell us all we need to know: appetites have been satiated, and thanks to that one chef’s stink eye, there might be something cooking beneath the surface after all.

 
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