GLORIOUS FOOD


FOOD Culinary diversity


Both internationally diverse and locally-sourced, Canadian cuisine, wine and micro-brews are reasons to visit the country in itself, says Laura Gelder


coffee! The influence of the country’s rich mix of immigrants means you can find everything from Ukrainian cabbage rolls in the prairies to Dim Sum in Vancouver’s Chinatown. And the produce is of a high quality across Canada, whether Pacific salmon from BC, game meat like venison and bison in Manitoba, Prince Edward Island potatoes, wild


T


blueberries in Ontario, year- round


oysters and lobsters in


here’s a lot more to Canadian food than maple syrup and Tim Hortons


Atlantic Canada or Alberta beef. Home-cultivated food, wine and beer is taken very seriously, with farm-to-fork restaurants, farmers’ markets and micro-breweries championing local produce.


And Canadian cuisine can even be interactive and immersive! Suggest ‘sugaring off’ at a maple syrup farm, Sucrerie de la Montagne, in Québec; learning to cook from a chef and food writer in an 1830s farmhouse kitchen, at Huff Estates Inn &


Winery in Ontario; or picnicking on the very edge of the Atlantic, next to an old lighthouse in Newfoundland.


Trails and tours


In BC, Vancouver Foodie Tours, a Canadian Signature Experience, offers three options: the Granville Island Market tour; the Gulity Pleasures Gourmet tour tasting, which starts with a serving of dumplings from Kirin Chinese Restaurant – Winner of Vancouver’s Best Dim Sum for six years – and the World’s Best Gourmet Food Truck tour. This sees clients tucking into the city’s eclectic street food, from a Berkshire pork hot dog, known as a 'Japadog', slathered with a secret


sauce and


topped with seaweed flakes, to a fiery chocolate Diablo cookie.


Says Vancouver Foodie Tours owner Michelle Ng: "Food trucks work really well in Vancouver. It is a very


mulicultural city and well represented by the world's cuisines...it is


surrounded by water, which produces great seafood, and we have easy access to lots of fresh farm table produce such as fruits and wines from the nearby Okanagan region." One of Canada’s famous train journeys dedicated to gourmet pleasures, Le Massif de


Charlevoix, follows a 140-km route along the St. Lawrence River and past 200-year- old towns and hamlets that serve up the


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