Some farm-to-table advocates come to the philosophy through trend pieces and restaurant menus. Irene Matys came to it through her family's olive groves in Cyprus, a refugee journey to Canada, and a decade of showing up at dawn to help plant peppers. That difference shows in everything she makes. Roots in Cyprus Irene Matys is a Greek Cypriot who immigrated to Canada in 1976 as a refugee. Her connection to farm-to-table living didn't start as a career choice, it traces back to

Cyprus has one of the oldest continuous farming cultures in the Mediterranean, and that history is easy to taste. Between the Troodos mountain vineyards, the olive and carob groves of the interior, the citrus orchards around the coast, and the small fishing harbours dotted along the shoreline, the island produces an unusually wide range of ingredients for its size. In recent years, a genuine farm to table movement has taken root here, with family farms, small wineries, and vi

Have you ever woken up mid-scene, certain you'd remember every detail, and reached for your phone or turned to tell someone about it, only to find the whole thing had dissolved before you finished the sentence? Not faded slowly. Gone. As if a door closed behind it. If this happens to you often, you're not imagining it and you're not doing anything wrong. It's one of the strangest features of being human: we can spend two hours a night immersed in vivid, emotionally rich exper