November-December 2025

Welcome to the holiday edition of The Tomato. Wines from your rich uncle and your cash-strapped friend, RGE RD’s Entertaining Menu and the Tomato Gift Guide. Plus Canada’s Great Kitchen Party Edmonton podium, local chefs on Top Chef and the YEG Coffee Story part four: A Legacy in Coffee. Dive in!

Features

RGE RD Entertaining Menu
High-quality products shave the workload | Chef Blair Lebsack & Caitlin Fulton

Wines from your Rich Uncle and your Cash-strapped Friend
We ask the experts what they want to see under the tree| Mary Bailey

YEG Coffee Story: A Legacy in Coffee
Part Four: The Colombian, Iconoclast, Square 1. | Mary Bailey with Curtis Comeau

Departments

Dish
Canada’s Great Kitchen Party Edmonton podium winners, local chefs on TV, Blair Lebsack and Ryan Arcand open Tiny’s Cheese.

The Tomato Gift Guide
Delicious things to eat, to cook with, or put on your table this season.

Beer Guy
Beers of the Year | Peter Bailey

Wine Maven
Recent visits from excellent producers means we can look forward to great wines for the holidays.  | Mary Bailey

The Smos at Home
Scents of the Season | Leanne Smoliak

Kitchen Sink
What’s new and notable.

On the cover: Photo illustration, Anton Vierietin, iStock.