The Happiest Place in Toronto

It's official: Dufferin Grove Park is the happiest place in Toronto. Not only does it have ice skating and hot chocolate in the winter, and amazing plays and puppet shows in the summer in the winter, it also has a year round farmer's market and thrice weekly pizza baking in a giant outdoor pizza oven. Today the pizza oven was put to use for the 10th annual Dufferin Grove matzah bake. With a mashgiach at hand, participants made their own whole wheat matzahs, in eighteen minutes or less. Lots of kids, and colourful Jews, as well as some friendly Dufferin Grove volunteers. I ran into one of the students from Montrose, my first practicum school. I also had a great discussion with Louise, an 89 year old ex-Montrealer who lived beside the park.