Foraging For My Supper with Peter Blush in Stratford and What To DoWIth Fiddleheads and Ramps
Peter Blush of Pucks Plenty When I anticipated my trip to check out Savour Stratford , the city's annual culinary festival that celebrates all things food and drink in Perth County, I was only expecting to eat. Being home to the Stratford Festival, one would expect that they would have to have a couple of fine dining restaurants, like Rundles, to service the theatre crowd. I assumed we would have some nice meals out, maybe visit a couple of shops selling some local cheese or something.... how much could a small town like Stratford actually offer a big city girl like me, right? Wrong. This place is like some sort of culinary super magnet, attracting all sorts of chefs, cooks, coffee and tea sommeliers (did you know that even existed?), foragers and farmers, cheese makers and funeral directors turned chocolatiers. What kind of town actually starts up a Chef School primarily so that they can always be sure that they are creating top level talent to hopefully stay ...