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This Special Holiday Issue highlights another love to eat . The hottest trends in Canadian food category that trends high for the season : restaurants are showing up in Winnipeg , leading sweets . Join us as we go in the kitchen at Morden ’ s to a variety of new tastes . Some trends , like for a behind the scenes look at how Chocolatier gluten-free food allergy conscious cooking , Fred Morden crafts our favourite perennial flavour have led to quinoa being the hottest trend in into delectable candy . For ciao ! cooks , we invite two side dishes . According to Restaurants Canada ’ s pastry chefs , Belinda Bigold of High Tea Bakery annual chef survey , locally sourced foods , leafy and Kristen Chemerika-Lew of Chew to share a greens , craft microbrews , food smoking , housecured meats ( charcuterie ) and inexpensive / Compiling our annual it list is the way we
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underused cuts of meat placed on the Top 10 Hot celebrate local flavour in Ciao !. Our multi-page Trends of the Year . holiday gift guide offers a glimpse of great finds
Much of the food fashion of the moment from some of the city ’ s best stores . It includes a is inspired by many of the same ingredients I directory of our favourite 257 stores for reference remember fetching from my baba ’ s garden or throughout the year — a personal guide to her cold storage room . A new generation of encourage exploring . imaginations are transforming pickled vegetables , This year , to sweeten the shopping experience liverwurst , and bitter weedy greens into suitable even more , Ciao ! collaborated with a group of specialties for Saturday night . Sourcing locally has local stores to create its annual Boutique Week . This moved from being a fashionable way of building a shopping promotion is our way of encouraging menu to a perennial approach by chefs seeking out Winnipeggers to shop in local , independentlyowned stores this holiday season . Many the best flavours . This issue of Ciao ! we take a look at this hunter , shopkeepers travel the globe , thoughtfully handpicking items they think Winnipeggers will love . gatherer , farmer food as it takes shape in this year ’ s restaurant upstarts . Our reviews of the Best New Shopping in participating boutiques ( pg 10-11 ) will Restaurants have been selected from a bumper crop lead to loads of festive fun . In-store promotions , of debut restaurants , making the selection process including draws , giveaways , music and tasty treats the most challenging yet . According to our tally , are all designed to show customer appreciation more than 1,400 restaurant seats have been added and make spirits bright . If that wasn ’ t enough , to the already competitive environment between Boutique Week shoppers will be entered into a draw October 2013 and October 2014 . We ate at all the for a grand prize shopping spree provided by all new restaurants that opened this year — several the participating Boutique Week stores . Shopping times . It was a year of winners ; well executed themes during Boutique Week could lead to even more and dishes reflect passion and earnestness and the shopping ! aforementioned global trends . Nevertheless , five Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year made the cut with their creative presentations of with the ones you love , and may some of our local ingredients , attention to detail , and their fabulous finds and favourite places become yours willingness to challenge and excite conservative in the year to come ! prairie palates . Our choice for the year ’ s best new restaurant is Prairie 360 , an expansive rotunda that offers more than a stunning view . It presents a unique outlook on the people of Manitoba and a thoughtfully curated menu of regional favourites
Laurie Hughes , Publisher with a spin . Lollipops provided by The Almond Tree
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