{"id":1284,"date":"2016-10-11T18:54:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2016-10-11T18:57:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T18:57:11","slug":"toronto-texture-is-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Toronto: Texture is All"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bar-hop\"<\/a>I do love cities.\u00a0 The sensory stimulation is endless. No matter how gridlike the streets are, the sense experience never happens as an orderly unfolding – it’s always overwhelming.\u00a0 It’s like having a bucket of water dumped over your head, being immersed.\u00a0 You might be floating, drowning, being carried along by the crowds, happily, unhappily, both.<\/p>\n

While visiting Toronto, I kept circling around one idea: texture.\u00a0 The city is in the process of becoming a big deal on the world stage, and you can feel that explosion viscerally, on your own skin, in the mixed textures.\u00a0 Lots of neighborhoods sprawl between the past and future – as if there is a pocket of Queens in Manhattan, San Francisco in midtown.\u00a0 Glass tower on a block with two-story houses that lean in every direction.\u00a0 You get steel beams and painted Victorians.\u00a0 A street car disappears down a long avenue, a Frank Gehry museum like a giant whale in the blue sky beside it.\u00a0 Post-modern towers and the back porches of tiny restaurants where kitchen staff smokes.
\n\"baldwin\"<\/a>Small still thrives, confirming the idea that people can exist as autonomous beings in big cities. It thrives stubbornly, led by a food culture that underlines human contact.\u00a0 The restaurants give onto the streets – little shacks of Mexican tortillas, the fabulous Mexican sandwich or torteria or silky dumpling house; the strings of rice wrapper dim sum, the noodle houses, the Ethiopian, Afghani, Indonesian, ahhh,\u00a0 food is outrageously sumptuously present, bright, alive, spicy, piquant, fish sauce-haunted, lime, mint.<\/p>\n

The ice of cool modern has become a multi-textured feast.<\/p>\n

\"san-cosme-interior\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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