Eat like a Canadian

Pick from today’s catch for dinner. Taste until you decide which artisanal cheese is the one you’ll take home from Canada’s oldest market in St. John’s. Sit  with colleagues overlooking the vineyards of the Mission Hill winery in the Okanagan. Gasp. Once at the view and then again when the meal arrives. Tour the backroads of Prince Edward County, stopping to chat with the farmers along the way. Learn to shuck like a pro and watch your boss drink moonshine with the best of them in PEI. Eat a cornucopia of veggies at a dinner with the Okanagan families who grew them. Stand side-by-side with icewine makers after the early morning call to pick grapes in the cold. Strut your stuff in a Cordon Bleu class.

Follow your stomach along Quebec’s gourmet route or let it take you to exotic tastes in one of Toronto’s cultural neighbourhoods.  Eat the Canada you’ve heard about: Quebec poutine, aboriginal bannock and Ontario maple syrup. Realize that Canadian back bacon is just bacon here and that all our beer is good beer.111