Serving the Glebe community since 1973 www.glebereport.ca ISSN 0702-7796 Issue no. 481 FREE
Vol. 44 No. 5
Photo: Liz McKeen
May 13, 2016
From left, Ilse Kyssa, David Pritchard, Carolyn Best, Louise Aronoff and Mary Kovac on the Second Avenue steps of The Pantry.
Farewell from The Pantry
By Carolyn Best
The Pantry Vegetarian Tearoom in the Glebe Community Centre will close its doors for the last time on June 30. Carolyn Best, the current proprietor, reflects on the impending closure of one of the Glebe’s longest running businesses. As many of our customers and friends already know, The Pantry will close its doors for the last time at the end of June. This has not been an easy decision for me to make but I feel that it is time to retire. Forty-
one years have come and gone since The Pantry first opened in 1975 – a remarkably long life for a small restaurant. I believe that its survival owes much to the ecological principles of its founder, Ilse Kyssa. From its very beginning, The Pantry was committed to vegetarian food and espoused community activism. Kyssa’s philosophy seemed very forward thinking then, yet her ideas essentially looked back towards an older understanding of our relationship with each other and our planet. Back to the values of organic produce, of the small footprint, of plant-based nour-
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ishment, of an old world charm, and to the need for a “third place” – a place that is not work and is not home, where one mingles with friends or enjoys solitude while yet in company. Since I took over The Pantry in 1995, I have done my best to keep to the high standards she established. Using organic food, recycling waste, and composting are almost as integral to our work as cooking and providing a pleasant environment for lunch. In all my efforts I have been assisted by a changing cast of volunteers and workers who faithfully laboured Continued on page 2
WHAT’S INSIDE Abbotsford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
GGGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35, 36
Bank St./Planning . . . . 22, 18–20
Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Lansdowne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 23
MP’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Councillor’s Report . . . . . . . . . 12
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24–28
Dance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14, 15
Film/ Theatre . . . . . . . . . . . 29, 30
Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 38, 39
Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16, 17
Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
GNAG/GCA/GACA . . . . . . . . . 9–11
War Graves/Travel . . . . . . . 37, 40
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