LCBO Food & Drink Autumn 2018

Ontario Join us in celebrating Ontario’s fall bounty and two important anniversaries—our 25th and VQA’s 30th—with a menu and matching wines that come together for the ultimate autumn dinner party. for dinner BY JAMES CHATTO & LUCY WAVERMAN  •  PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROB FIOCCA

FOOD & DRINK ’S 25 TH isn’t the only an- niversary we’re recognizing in this issue. The Vintners Quality Alliance turns 30 this year and that is certainly cause for celebration. It’s amazing to think how far our wine in- dustry has come in the last three decades, travelling a road mapped out by the VQA’s high standards and guiding principles.     To honour that achievement, we’ve put together a menu that could be described as the ultimate Ontario autumn dinner party. We went back into our archives to find favourite recipes, then tweaked them

a little to bring them up to date. Each one is fairly simple to make, letting one or two prime ingredients shine without a great deal of fuss—because that’s the third thing we wanted to celebrate with this menu: the dazzlingly delicious quality of On- tario’s fall produce. Our farmers coax the absolute best out of their land, just as our grape growers do. So whether you cook the whole menu or just choose dishes that look particularly tempting, you can enjoy the lo- cal, seasonal flavours of Ontario’s harvest, paired, of course, with our own VQA wines.

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