Vines and trees are heavy with fruit ripe for the picking. We take morning walks to the fisherman’s stand beachside where he sells his morning’s catch. Trips to the buffalo farm to score us some scrumptiously juicy fresh mozzarella are more fun than I can possibly convey. I cannot get enough of the stuff.
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Mickey’s unique Hickory Visual Pizza Oven is the only one in Canada. It has a rotating cast iron base and customers can not only watch their pizza bake right before their eyes but also specify how they want it cooked. To add to the live show, Mick tends to the pies with a paddle and the smooth dexterity of a professional ensuring every pizza is cooked through perfectly.
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This is the time of year when our own locally-grown tomatoes are at their best. You’ll find them in every size, shape and hue- sun-ripened and packed with flavour. Last week I came home from the Brick Works Farmers’ Market laden with large, nobbly, tomatoes of brilliant red with sweet, juicy flesh, and fabulous organic plum tomatoes of red, yellow, orange and green (some delicately striped or mottled) with slightly sharper taste and firmer flesh.
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A four-day affair, the Harrow Fair recently celebrated 156 years, this Labour Day. Yes, that is older than Canada itself. Harrow is located in Essex County in South Western Ontario, nestled between Lake Erie and Lake Saint Clair, and shares the same latitude as Northern California and Tuscany, so you can tell that to your smirking American cousins the next time they wisecrack about your skiing in July.
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The Ontario Hostelry Institute is now accepting nominations for the 2011 OHI Top 30 Under 30 program. The Top 30 Under 30 program is an ‘awards’ vehicle that recognizes the multi-faceted hospitality industries’ top young performers of today. The recognition of these individuals encourages and inspires a future generation of hospitality leaders who will ensure career-long commitments to excellence and the future development of the industry.
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