Is The Great Food Revolution relevant?
Sat, Mar 21, 2009
CBC’s latest foray into food is a multi-part television series, The Great Food Revolution. As a culinary nationalist I watched as they profiled a New York City caterer who serves local ingredients to her guests. Yes, she’s doing it for the right reasons but….! We all know Canadian catering entrepreneurs who could have been showcased. Is this the best way of spending our collective tax dollars? Is it relevant to YOU as a culinary professional?
I look forward to hearing from other members of Cuisine Canada on this topic!
Note: The final two episodes air next week on CBC-TV.
March 26, 2009 at 8:00 pm – 24 Hours, 24 Million Meals
March 26, 2009 at 9:00 pm — Food of the Future
Posted by Anita Stewart.
I agree, Anita. There are lots of interesting localvores in Canada, lots of interesting grocery stores here at home, plenty of home grown topics. Mind you I can’t think of a store with a monorail, but we have a spectacular Loblaws in Toronto at Yonge and Sheppard with glorious escalators descending two stories out of the mall atrium into the middle of the produce section.
I don’t feel I’ve learned anything, but it makes for interesting prime time. Perhaps it might open some non-foodie eyes to new ideas.
Yes, indeed, Anita! Take chef Wade Sirois of Infuse Catering in Calgary as a case in point. For a DECADE he has been using hyper-local products for his high-end catering menus and convincing Calgarians that local is the new exotic. And that local elk, just dug local, organic parsnips, or locally grown asparagus is worth paying a premium for! He also just packed out a Calgary community centre for a Saturday afternoon series of speakers on the reality of building up our local foodshed. This guy should have been the focus of one of these episodes. It’s sad that what happens in the hinterlands rarely gets the attention of “national” media but we keep trying:)