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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
selection of winter white confections.
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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