Food
The World According to Asparagus
Jennifer Clark welcomes the first tender spears of spring with a gardener’s guide to growing and cooking our favourite vegetable.
Love among the ruins at the Alton Mill
Set in the stone ruins under the stars, a rustic summer wedding and vegetarian feast was like a mid-summer night’s dream come true.
The Practical Art of Preserving
Learn to make canning part of your food strategy and keep the whole thing manageable, by year-round canning.
The Heirloom Tomato Club
How a couple of avid tomato lovers are helping preserve the amazing variety of their favourite heritage fruit.
A Cook’s Tour of Bolton
Here, for the uninitiated, is Food In The Hills’ tour of Bolton’s gourmet highlights:
Putting Headwaters on the culinary map
Headwaters is emerging as the hottest new culinary region in Canada!
The morel index
Morels should never be eaten raw as they contain small amounts of toxins that are removed by cooking. Even cooked morels can cause mild intoxication when consumed with alcohol.
Léna Valiquette’s Oatmeal Cookies
“I use only the freshest ingredients,” says Léna Valiquette. Léna’s shop has been described as “a little stop at Nirvana in Paradise.”
Poached Pears
These can be prepared up to two days in advance. Serve with blueberry syrup or chocolate sauce.
Southern Italian Peasant-Style Roast Chicken and Potatoes
A simple Italian dinner of spinach egg drop soup, roast chicken and poached pears prepared by Pietro and Tina Fanzo in their Mono kitchen.
Stracciatella alla Fiorentina (egg-drop soup with spinach)
Starter for a simple Italian dinner of spinach egg drop soup, roast chicken and poached pears prepared by Pietro and Tina Fanzo in their Mono kitchen.



