August 3rd, 2006 - One Local Summer Week 5
From Sun-Wed, I was at a business conference in Guelph, Ontario. In advance, I decided that I would try to eat local on Tuesday when we had dinner on our own. I thought the easiest thing to find would be a bakery for bread and a grocery store for cheese. At the grocery store, I first found a Canadian Spartan apple (I think EVERYTHING else was from the US or tropical countries!) that was fantastic. One of the best tasting apples I’ve ever had! Then I found a rather small selection of domestic cheeses; I chose a Royal Canadian sharp cheddar. I thought the name quite fitting for this project. Finally, I spent quite a bit of time finding the local bakery, after which I passed it another 4 or 5 times trying to find other places LOL. The bread, although lovely looking, I realized was far too much for me to finish in one or two meals. Instead, I purchased a package of oatcakes, which I thought was nicely non-American as well.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t found the park I was seeking to have a nice lunch outside. It was probably too hot and humid anyway. The cheese and apple were fantastic together, and easy to eat as I attempted to find the butterfly place. (Fittingly for my ability to find and get places on time, I ended up at the donkey sanctuary instead, and spent about 1.25 hours going less than 20 miles from where I started. Not counting the hour to find the bakery which was only 2 miles away….) I had enough leftover cheese and oatcakesto bring home. I look forward to having them for lunch tomorrow.
The meal was definitely more fun than simply going to the store and picking up some American, familiar items. I probably would have done that–or bought the store bakery bread which was actually trucked in. It was a lot more fun looking around the store to see if I could find Canadian/Ontario-produced items. Which is much harder than it might seem–mostly, the store could have been in the US and you wouldn’t have noticed a difference in the brands.
PS, While away, my brother told me that the comments field isn’t working. He didn’t say if he fixed it yet, so probably not. My apologies to anyone who has tried to comment. Although, on the positive side, my spam count has been quite down! It has to do with the new theme we installed. I’ll let you know when it works again!
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