Local not-for-profit food cooperative Eat Local Grey Bruce is hosting their first-ever contest: the Eat Local Grey Bruce Seasonal Cooking Challenge - a great way to highlight seasonal cooking as a worthy art. The contest started on February 1st and will last six weeks.
The premise of the contest is simple. Cook a tasty dish using three seasonal ingredients predetermined by Eat Local staff, take a picture of the final product, and post the picture on social media. The person who creates the recipe with the most shares and likes will win an exclusive cooking lesson with Rheanna Kish, co-author of Come to Our Table (the South Georgian Bay community cookbook) and former recipe developer for Canadian Living magazine's test kitchen. The lesson will be held at The Milk Maid Fine Cheese & Gourmet Food in Owen Sound. Grey County is proud to sponsor this initiative promoting local food producers.
Eat Local invites everyone in the Grey Bruce community to participate in this challenge and learn to see seasonal ingredient limitations as opportunities for creative culinary expression. It is easy to cook with globally available foods and prime cuts., but culinary culture is the art of dealing with what's in season or storage.
Eat Local Grey Bruce is a not-for-profit cooperative of food producers and consumers. We envision a local food distribution system that efficiently connects producers and consumers, provides meaningful employment, enhances the environment and biodiversity, supports healthy living throughout the entire food chain, and vitalizes a culture of food.
Producer members offer frozen meat, refrigerated dairy, veggies, bread, fruits, flours, and some preserved goods, plus we buy additional items from the Ontario Natural Food Coop and other suppliers. Consumer members order food online. Orders are fully customizable.
Like Eat Local Grey Bruce on Facebook to get the most up-to-date information on the Seasonal Cooking Challenge and the co-operative. For more information visit:
www.eatlocalgreybruce.ca
source: media release, Eat Local Grey Bruce