The Town of Minto Savours the Flavours of Success | Ontario ...
Last week the small Town of Minto proved you don?t have to travel to the big city to savour big flavours with their local food and chef showcase: Savour the Flavours.
Only 14 hours after tickets went on sale, Savour the Flavours had sold out. With 300 tickets available and a regional population of only a little over 8000, it was clear that this was a fall culinary event not to be missed!
Thanks to the Minto Chamber of Commerce, I had the opportunity to attend and find out just what everyone was so eager about.

Savour the Flavours pairs local producers with chefs from the region to create a potluck style dinner made up of various sample-sized dishes.
The event was held at the Harriston Curling Club. Combining cozy small town charm with fine dining flare, the rink was outfitted with round dining tables draped with white table cloths; proper silverware and wine glasses shared table space with figurines of autumnal vegetables and plastic ketchup and mustard bottles filled with South Street Cafe?s Honey-Citrus Vinaigrette and Feige?s Honey-Mustard and Poppyseed Dressing.

South Street?s Durham Wheat Flatbread with Smoked Trout Mousse
Over 34 producers, chefs and businesses participated in the event, ranging from fine dining establishments such as Artisanale (Guelph) and Cork (Elora) to small-scale craft food and drink producers like Cedarwood Honey (Minto Township) and MacLean?s Ales (West Grey), not to mention local farmers like ReRoot Organics (Harriston) and Windy Field Farms (Grand Valley).
The purpose of the annual event is to educate and promote local food and to showcase the diversity of high quality products being created around the Town of Minto. And there was no question about the quality.
Earthy mushroom croustades with a fresh green salad served at the table kept some of us seated while others lined up to fill their plates at the vendor booths.

Windy Field Farms? Mushrooms
Every dish was well-crafted and showcased unique and delicious flavours.? A few of the dishes that really stood out for me included: Cork?s Pumpkin Polenta Terrine, Veky?s Kale Salad, Harriston Bakery?s Maple Pecan Butternut Squash Pie with Mapleton?s Organic ice cream, and Maclean?s Pale Ale. (You can find the full menu listed below!)

Chef Ben from Cork
Glancing about the rink in a near-swoon caused by the exceptional (and abundant!) local fare piled onto my plate, I noticed I was not alone. At every table people were gesticulating about the food, mouths and plates full. Those in line (going back for seconds or thirds perhaps?) were also chatting excitedly in anticipation.
The people here?the one?s responsible for making Savour the Flavours a sold out event?knew they would taste some of the freshest and highest quality ingredients, while at the same time supporting the local community?no commutes or Michelin stars required!

The event was a clear reminder that despite all the hype and fanaticism around big city trends and fine dining events, there is an abundance of talented and creative growers, chefs and businesses offering delicious food to be found in the less traveled regions of Ontario.
Your challenge, if you wish to accept it, is to find them. You can get a head start by marking October 3, 2013 in your calendar for the next Savour the Flavours event!
Appetizers
- Helen McFadzean?s Mushroom Croustades with Mushrooms from Windy Field Farms
- Martin?s Family Green Salad with South Street Honey-Citrus Vinaigrette or Feige?s Honey-Mustard & Poppyseed Dressing
Mains
- Artisanale?s Warm Roasted Chicken and Crouton Salad
- College Heights? Grilled Mediterranean Lamb Chops served with Boulang?re Potatoes
- Cork?s Pumpkin Polenta Terrine with Roasted Garlic and River?s Edge Goat Cheese
- CrumbleFeige?s Various Cuts of Black Angus Beef, Beef Tongue Soup and Cauliflower and Broccoli Salad
- Harry Stones? Chicken Alfredo with Garlic Bread
- South Street Cafe?s Savoury French Profiterole, Rustic Pork Rillette, and Pickled Oven Roasted Tomato
- The Harvest Table?s Pulled Pork with Apple Barbecue Sauce served on Baguette
- Veky?s Curried Beet Soup, Beef Carpaccio, and Kale Salad
- Woodpecker?s Butternut Squash Soup and Potato Soup
Desserts
- Cedarwood?s Lavender Honey
- Filsinger?s Organic Pear Butter on Crackers
- Harriston Bakery?s Maple Pecan Butternut Squash Pie with Home-Whipped Topping
- M&M Meats Mini Cream Puffs, Mini Eclairs, ?Just Cheesecake? with Fruit and Double Caramel Cream Cheesecake
- Mapleton?s Organic unique selection of ice creams
- Scoop-It?s Carrot Pineapple Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Beverages
- Carrick Wine?s Partridge Eye White, Forty Hills Red and Gravel Run Cider
- Neustadt Brewery?s Neustadt Lager and 10W30
- Maclean Brewery?s Maclean?s Pale Ale
- Elizabethan Tea Catering?s selection of teas
- Filsinger?s Organic Grape Juice
- Infusion Coffee?s Serious Sumatra, Peruvian Pleasure and Colombian Swiss Water Decaf coffees
- Wellesley Apple Cider
- Wellington County Dairy Producer?s Chocolate Milk
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Source: http://ontarioculinary.com/events/savourmintoflavours
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