It was a cold November morning back in 2011 when I visited Joe’s Pastizzi, a small shop on Dundas Street West in Toronto. The area is home to most of the city’s Maltese businesses and is a hub for ...

Pastizzi are a savory pastry and signature treat of Malta, where each neighborhood, each block, has its own pastizzeria. In form, they are most similar to the sfogliatella you might have tried at Roma ...

He’s old enough to be retired and it’s a difficult language, thanks to Malta’s unique position in the Mediterranean Sea. While at its core, the language mixes Sicilian and Arabic, its vocabulary and ...