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Taste Culinary Series – June 6 to August 22

“Where does our food come from?” is a question that more and more consumers are asking. The best way to find the answer to that question is to visit the source, whether it’s a farm where it is produced or a food processing facility. There’s an opportunity to do just that this summer with the Taste Culinary tour series beginning June 13 and running Wednesdays throughout July and August. Each tour will originate in Winnipeg and travel to either a farm or a processing facility where consumers can see how the foods they are eating are produced. Then the tour returns to a top restaurant in Winnipeg for a multi-course gourmet meal featuring the local Manitoba ingredients they’ve just been exploring.

These culinary tours offer an insider’s look at an elk ranch, a pasta plant, a brewery, a soybean farm, a winery and more. Tour operator, Don Finkbeiner of Heartland Travel, has partnered with the editors of Ciao! magazine, to make the connections with these ranches and processors who have their products featured in top Winnipeg restaurants. These culinary tours highlight the “Buy Local” phenomenon that benefits Manitoba farmers and food processors as well as consumers.

For more information and to reserve a tour call Heartland International Travel at 204-989-9630 or 1-866-890-3377

http://www.heartlandtravel.ca/Tasteculinaryseries2007.htm

http://www.ciaowinnipeg.com/tasteculinaryseries_2007.php

Participating farms, ranches, processors and restaurants:

June 13 - Stonewood Elk Ranch and Dandelion Eatery

June 20 - Nature’s Pasta and In Ferno’s Bistro

June 27 - Peak of the Market and Blaze Bistro

July 4 - Fort Garry Brewery and Bailey’s

July 11 - Canola Learning Centre at Kelburn Farm and Fusion Grill

July 18 - Sissons Soybean Farm and Wasabi

July 25 - Blue Lagoon Florascape and Ivory

August 1 - Neva Hydroponic Farms and Tavern at the Park

August 8 – D.D. Leobard Winery and La Vielle Gare

August 15 – Fort Whyte Alive Farm and Buffalo Stone Café

August 22 – Canadian International Grains Institute, Tall Grass Prairie Bread Company and The Current at Inn at the Forks