There are few products that create a more memorable culinary image than a whole roasted turkey glistening with golden skin at the Thanksgiving dinner table. For over 60 years, Hayter’s Farm in Dashwood has done its part filling holiday platters with these traditional birds. In fact, Tradition is a word imprinted on their logo and the farm has been run in the most traditional of ways by passing down the family-run business through three generations. Read more
I recently travelled south to sample the flavours of Ecuador. But it wasn’t nearly as far as you might expect, not as far as the country itself in the northern part of South America, but a mere 60-minute drive southwest of London. With a Spanish name to match its philosophy, Lo Maximo Meats is an offshoot venture of Spence Farms near the tiny community of McKay’s Corners in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent. The people responsible for the Ecuadorian food I sampled are Canadian-born farmer, Paul Spence, and his wife, Sara Caiche, born and raised in Gauyaquil, Ecuador, who now shares her style of cooking with our part of the world. Read more