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SUMMARY:OFFSITE: Labour Day Mushroom Hunting & Foraging Expedition with Puck's Plenty
DESCRIPTION:What better way to celebrate the end of summer and the country we call home?\nJoin us for a fun foraging excursion in the Ontario countryside! We’re taking the show on the road and bringing you directly to the source with an expert guide to educate us on the seasonal species of fungi available in our own backyard. We’ll respectfully take what we can from the land we all share and then return home to cook up our treasures! \nOur expert guide\, Danijela Pulcini from Puck’s Plenty\, has been foraging wild mushrooms and plants her whole life\, first in her native Serbia and since right here in Ontario. She will show us how to safely identify wild species and will discuss medicinal and culinary uses of what we find. \nWe will meet at location (TBC) within 90 minutes of Toronto; The Dep will have a vehicle with a few extra spots\, so let me know if you want to share a ride. \nRecommended items to bring: \n\nsmall knives\ngarden spade\nbasket or mesh bag\nassorted bags (both paper and plastic)\nwater bottle\ninsect repellent\nback pack\n\nParticipants should wear either running shoes or hiking boots as well as long pants. Note: dogs are welcome to join! \n—–\nPuck’s Plenty was established in 2010 by Peter Blush\, who has become a renowned wild mushroom expert here in Ontario after years as a military news correspondent and novelist. Featured for his mushroom expertise on The Oprah Network’s ‘Fearless In the Kitchen’\, The Global Network’s Morning News and many others\, he now delights in taking groups of intrepid foragers into our wooded spaces to enjoy the natural spoils of the land we all share. pucksplenty.com \n\n—–\nThe Depanneur is where Interesting Food Things happen. For more than a decade The Dep has been showcasing Toronto’s remarkable culinary diversity by hosting unique food events.\n@thedepanneur
URL:https://dev.thedepanneur.ca/event/offsite-labour-day-mushroom-hunting-foraging-expedition-with-pucks-plenty/
LOCATION:Barrie Community Sports Complex\, 2100 Nursery Rd\, Minesing\, ON\, L0L 1Y2
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SUMMARY:MASTERCLASS: The Past and Future of Maiz by Iván Wadgymar
DESCRIPTION:Masterclasses offer in-depth explorations of food topics\, presented by experts and accompanied by demonstrations and tastings.\nMaiz\, the staple grain of many pre-Colombian civilizations\, is now one of the most widely cultivated crops on Earth. But along the way\, so much of what made corn culturally central and sacred is under threat of being erased by industrial commodity products flooding the global market. In response\, artisanal producers like Iván Wadgymar are returning to heritage varietals and traditional processing techniques\, along with zero-waste agricultural practices. This produces a higher quality\, more authentic\, and far more delicious product that honours this precious gift of nature and culture. \nJoin Ivan for a journey into the origins of maiz in Mesoamerica and discover how millennia of skillful crop domestication created a foundational food for Pre-Columbian civilization that lived the centre of their cosmology. These sophisticated agricultural practices coevolved with the technologies like nixtamalization\, which transforms the nutritional profile of corn\, and creates the masa used in tortillas\, tamales\, and even the ubiquitous supermarket corn chips. The place maiz holds in Mexico’s socio-political-economic web has undergone dramatic changes from the colonial period until now\, and projects like Maizal help protect this unique cultural inheritance\, from seed to table.\n—– \nToday’s tasting menu showcases the versatility of maize in Mexican cuisine\, featuring corn\, beans and herbs grown by Ivan himself. \nAtole (hot) & Tejuino (cold) – 2 maiz based beverages \nTamales de frijol – maiz dumplings\, stuffed with heirloom black beans\, wrapped corn husks and steamed (vegetarian) \nEsquites – a popular Mexican street food made with whole pozole (nixtamalized corn kernels) (vegetarian) \nPanuchos – A specialty of the Yucatán\, small tortillas stuffed with black beans before griddling\, topped with cochinita pibil (slow roasted pork with annatto and citrus) \nTotopos (fried tortilla chips) and homemade salsa will also be on the tables to snack on. \n—–\nIván Wadgymar has some unfamiliar job titles for a Torontonian: tortillero\, molinero\, and sembrador\, each one taking him deeper into the heart of an ancient culinary tradition. As a tortillero\, he runs Maizal Tortilleria making artisanal Mexican tortillas and totopos (aka tortilla chips) using locally grown organic corn. As a molinero he processes raw corn using the traditional nixtamal method that transforms it into the raw masa dough that is the foundation of much of indigenous Mesoamerican cooking\, making it more digestible and nutritious in the process. As a sembrador (sower)\, he grows his own heirloom varietals of corn and other vegetables\, herbs and spices in the sustainable permaculture tradition of the small milpa farms of Mexico. Together\, he connects land\, seed\, process and product in a way that is a celebration of both our local terroir and his hispanic heritage\, putting the culture back into agriculture. Along the way he both protects and reveals the unique flavours of a culinary tradition that is both ancient and very much alive.\n@maizalto \n\n—–\nThe Depanneur is where Interesting Food Things happen. For more than a decade The Dep has been showcasing Toronto’s remarkable culinary diversity by hosting unique food events.\n@thedepanneur
URL:https://dev.thedepanneur.ca/event/masterclass-the-past-and-future-of-maiz-by-ivan-wadgymar-2/
LOCATION:CSI Spadina\, 192 Spadina Ave.\, Suite 501\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5T 2C2\, Canada
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