Category: Donairs
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5 Years of Book of Donair! Key Takeaways & Controversies
It’s been 5 years since Book of Donair was published. Yup, August 17, 2020, during the peak of the pandemic I wrote an exhaustive history of the donair. It was a crazy time with restaurants opening and closing, and so much uncertainty. Of course, as soon as the book was published it was immediately out-of-date.…
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The Best Vegan Donair in Halifax
Over the years that I spent researching the donair, ultimately leading up to writing the Book of Donair, I sampled over 50 donairs in 6 cities. I have written posts about the History of Donairs, Calgary Donairs, Edmonton Donairs and even Toronto donairs. But this post about Vegan Donairs has been a long time coming!…
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History of the Donair Pt 2: The Halifax Donair
Preface *Since writing this post I have written a more thorough and accurate account in Book of Donair: Everything you wanted to know about Canada’s favourite kebab. Back in 2016 I wrote a well meaning post: Donair History Pt 1: It Began With the Doner Kebab. I wrote about how the early history of the donair…
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History of the Donair Pt 1: It Began With the Doner Kebab
Over the last couple of years I have completed Donair Quests of Calgary, Toronto and Edmonton but you may have noticed that I haven’t touched on Halifax. This is an ambitious task, plighted by a heavy discourse of strong opinions and neighbourhood alliances. The spicysweet truth is that I’ve been researching the donair extensively –…
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Edmonton Donair Quest
Last fall I did a Calgary Donair Quest, even though it is really the Edmonton that is known for the the Western Canadian donair. The Edmonton donair dates back to the 1980s which you can read about in this Walrus article: The Donair Wars. Charles Smart was the OG of the Edmonton donair but, alas,…
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Calgary Donair Quest
Did you know that Albertans eat more donairs than anywhere else in Canada? I know, right?! Edmonton, the donair capital of Western Canada, even considered making donair its official food, but it looks like they’ve conceded that it belongs to Halifax. The migration of the donair to Alberta is a mysterious phenomenon but there is a generally…
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Toronto: An Investigation of Halifax Donairs
Update 2020: this post was written in 2015, and many of these restaurants have since closed (I have indicated which ones). There is now a Jessy’s Pizza in Toronto, and it doesn’t get more authentic than that. Check them out at 2200 Dundas St W. I recently took a trip to Toronto with my main…
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