Canadian Culinary Championships part 3 – the Black Box Competition
[caption id="attachment_3769" align="alignleft" width="225"] Members of the GMP production team[/caption] Saturday morning – up with the lark to...
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Canadian Culinary Championships part 2 – The Mystery Wine Challenge
...Yes, the Mystery Wine was white. It was the 2016 Pinot Gris from Fort Berens, a winery in...
Canadian Culinary Championships part one – the judges arrive
[caption id="attachment_3748" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Chefs with their mystery wine[/caption] To balmy Kelowna for the 12th running of...
Toronto Gold Medal Plates 2017
What a grand finale to the 2017 Gold Medal Plates campaign! Last night’s event in Toronto was simply...
Ottawa-Gatineau Gold Medal Plates 2017
We were promised snow in Ottawa, penultimate stop on the Gold Medal Plates marathon, but though the weather...
Calgary Gold Medal Plates 2017
Wham! And suddenly it was winter – a three-day blizzard sweeping over Calgary, temperature 12 below, traffic so...
Winnipeg Gold Medal Plates 2017
To Winnipeg, where our improbably sun-drenched tour of Canada finally encountered the first real intimations of winter –...
Saskatoon Gold Medal Plates 2017
Yet more sunshine on our extended road trip, glinting off the broad South Saskatchewan river in the early...
Victoria Gold Medal Plates 2017
Gold Medal Plates Victoria is really a gathering for the entire province of British Columbia, with chefs flying...
St. John’s Gold Medal Plates 2017
St. John’s under scudding cloud and occasional rain, the taxi driver from the airport bringing us up to...