For those (few ) who enjoy tales of my multicultural city (apologies to the cheesecake haters *cough Aqua & osuche cough*:

Eating ugali and cheesecake (from the Toronto Star)

There's an intriguing food scene, ever so tiny, emerging on Donlands Ave.

Here, in the first block south of O'Connor, a cluster of food businesses straddles the especially wide East York street.

There's a European bakery, a deli, two paan shops, an African/Indian restaurant and a shop for Mennonite/Amish meat.

It's these last two food havens — Simba Grill and Fresh From the Farm — that deserve consideration.

Let's start with Simba Grill and a bowl of coconut curry sided by a lump (there's really no better way to put it) of ugali.

Ugali, the staple food of Africa under various names, is presented here as a boiled mush of white cornmeal and cassava flours softened with margarine. You get some with any order of curry or coconut curry.

"You take a chunk with the hand, roll it and make a hole with the thumb and scoop it and eat," says owner Sultan Jessani, dipping some ugali into a simple coconut curry with chicken.

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I LOVE FOOD & my city!!