Cooking and Gardening

May 26, 2013Blog, cuisine, culinary tourism, farm fresh food, farmer, food, local crops, local food, lynn ogryzlo, The Ontario TableLeave a comment

It’s not enough to plant your favourite veggies these days, the latest trend is to theme your garden for a summer full of trendy eating. Traditional gardens with tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce have taken a back seat to more avant-garde gardens with gourmet salad mixes, spa foods and edible flowers. An avant-garde garden represents what we think of as the future of food. When I think of avant-garde cuisine I think of colourful food on the plate. Little red and yellow tomatoes and purple broccoli served on a platter with a fresh herb dip. Lettuces such as raddicchio and […]

Savoury Flatbreads from Blossom

May 15, 2013Blog, cuisine, farm fresh food, food, local food, lynn ogryzlo, The Ontario TableLeave a comment

Jackie is a Montreal artist who married Ron Troup, a fruit farmer from Jordan and found herself living in beautiful Niagara surrounded by orchards and gardens. In the beginning she continued to work as an artist but it wasn’t long before the culinary culture of the region took hold and Jackie began looking in a different direction. Many of the farm markets Jackie shopped at offered baked goods from fruit pies to butter tarts but she noticed an obvious absence of anything savoury. To this Montreal city girl, it looked like a great opportunity to become an artist in […]

Ontario’s Dairy Capital is Home to The Cheese Trail

May 10, 2013Blog, cuisine, lynn ogryzlo2 Comments

If you’ve ever wondered what Ontario’s dairy country looks like, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Woodstock is the big city of the region and in its heart sits a monument to a cow named Springbank Snow Countess. Springbank was dairy cow with the admirable accomplishment of being the county’s largest butterfat producer (weighing in at 9062 pounds of butterfat and 207,505 pounds of milk during her lifetime). During Springbank’s time, Oxford was home to at least 92 cheese factories. Today, Oxford County boasts the provinces only Cheese Trail. One of the stops is the Elm Hurst Inn and […]

Anchor Bar Comes to Hamilton

April 16, 2013Blog, Chicken Wings, food, local food, lynn ogryzloLeave a comment

They call them the best wings in the world and for the first time, you can get them in Canada, more specifically – Hamilton, Ontario. The original and famous Anchor Bar in Buffalo is the birthplace of the Buffalo (Chicken) Wing. The signature wings are extra meaty, super crispy and uber delicious (made that way with their secret sauce). There is simply no comparison! They come in varying degrees of hotness that start with mild and go all the way to Suicide and Abandon Ship or as I like to call them; Death by Wing. The secret, explains restaurant […]

Ris and her Julia Child Memoires

April 3, 2013Blog, DC, farm fresh food, farmer, food, local crops, lynn ogryzloLeave a comment

Doris Lacoste or “Ris” as her friends call her is owner and chef of her own restaurant in the Georgetown neighbourhood of Washington, DC. Ris culinary journey to Paris and back (USA) has been serendipitously entwined with culinary icon, Julia Child. With a degree in French, Ris set off for Paris to perfect her language. She landed a job as a secretary at La Varenne in exchange for a degree in French cooking. She stayed in Paris for a few years. It was a great job that put her up front and centre with Paris’ top chefs and it […]

Washington DC Food Tour

April 1, 2013Blog, cuisine, DC, farm fresh food, food, local food, lynn ogryzlo, WashingtonLeave a comment

What Chris Pitt knows about the food and culture of Washington, DC’s neighbourhoods is nothing short of amazing. Chris is Director of Outreach and Development of Food Tour Corporation, and they run DC Metro Food Tours. These are free food tours of Washington, DC (they work for tips). I took his tour that ran in the Capital Hill neighbourhood and it was fabulous! Highly recommend it when you’re in Washington. Here are some highlights. First we start off with a bit of must-know trivia about Washington, DC and I’m glad we did. Washington is an incredibly easy city to […]

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