by The Cooking Ladies | Oct 26, 2018
We attended the Cooking with the Wolfman: Indigenous Fusion Literary Dinner at the Stratford Chef School, October 25, 2018. The event was a part of Appetite for Words, a Stratford literary festival with a culinary twist. The lineup for 2018, with the final dinner on... 
by The Cooking Ladies | Oct 18, 2018
FARM TO TABLE Celebrating Stratford Chefs School Alumni, Recipes & Perth County Producers by Andrew Coppolino is a unique farm to table story, with recipes, photos, and a strong sense of place. The place is Stratford, Perth County, Ontario. You just have to look... 
by The Cooking Ladies | Oct 6, 2018
At the Stratford Kiwanis Garlic Festival, garlic is the star. In 2007, the Kiwanis Club in Stratford, Ontario, joined local garlic growers to promote Ontarian garlic which was struggling to gain a foothold in a market that was dominated by China. Today, the demand for... 
by The Cooking Ladies | May 31, 2018
While touring out-of-town friends around Southwestern Ontario’s sunny south, we always discover a new twist on the familiar. We look through our visitors’ eyes and love it when they “ooh” and “ah” at every stop. Recently, with friends from... 
by The Cooking Ladies | Apr 12, 2018
In order to include an additional 20 full-page photos in our cookbook, On The Road With The Cooking Ladies, Let’s Get Grilling, our publisher, Whitecap Books, sent a professional photographer to our test kitchen on the north shore of Lake Erie. Jonathan Bielaski... 
by The Cooking Ladies | Mar 25, 2018
A lineup formed outside the door for the Shrewsbury Community Association’s annual Maple Syrup Festival in Chatham-Kent, Ontario. Breakfast-style sausages sizzled on an outdoor grill. Inside, volunteers flipped pancakes, poured hot apple cider, and kept maple syrup...