Armenia is one of the oldest vitivinicultural districts of the world. Some archaeologists claim that wine was accidentally discovered in this small and mountainous country or Georgia north if it.
Armenia’s average altitude compensates for its latitude (39 – 41 north) and 700 km. closer to the equator than those of Burgundy, but it [...]

Eating a nutritionally balanced diet is almost impossible if you rely on takeout or fast food. Anyone can cook adequately with a little interest, knowledge, and minimum of equipment.
The first and most important requirement is the will to cook, followed by good co-ordination and timing skills, and understanding what cooking is all about.
Briefly, cooking [...]

Organizers staged the first Cuvee in 1989 as a fundraiser for local charities but the event has evolved to lavish celebration of Ontario wines and foods.
The first Cuvee event attracted 350 guests and 16 wineries participated. Today well over 800 attend and 57 wineries pour their best wines, in the new Fallsview Casino’s lavishly furnished [...]

Sake (nihonshu in Japanese) has played a central role in Japanese culture for the past two millennia, although the production technique was first employed in the Yangtze Valley in China in 4800 B.C.
Sake is a fermented beverage brewed using koji mould (aspergillus oryzae) and yeast. It is a beer, although most western consumers think of [...]

Canada, the second largest country in the world, stretching from the Atlantic -, to the Pacific- and Arctic Oceans, lacks the culinary fame of France, or Italy,
Medieval French from Normandy and Brittany, and English settled the country. In those days all were not noted for their culinary prowess, and ingredients in Canada were nowhere near [...]

Grapes grew wild and in some locations still do, for centuries before people in the Caucasus accidentally discovered wine. It was in the warehouses of King Jamshid, where bunches of grapes were stored in huge clay jars for the ruler to enjoy the fruit in the winter. He loved to eat grapes. One day, one [...]

Although no one knows how or where cheese making originated, the earliest references describe its solid parts as nutritious and satisfying.

Germans call pinot noir spatburgunder, literally late ripening red Burgundy, as opposed to early ripening Burgundy (fruhburgunder) version, which they also plant, but use it for blending only.

Once under the umbrella of Yugoslavia, this country on the Adriatic Sea has a long and varied vitvinicultural history starting with ancient Greeks who where probably the first to plant grapes in the region.
Croatia is located between 43 – 46 latitudes north bordering Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovenia and the Adriatic Sea.
The majority [...]

This large Eastern Mediterranean Island has been producing wine since 2300 B.C as archaeological excavations prove.
The evolution of winemaking can be conveniently divided into the following eras – Lusignan, Ottoman, British and since 1980.
During the Lusignan era, with the help of Armenian rulers of Cilicia in what is today southern Turkey, winemaking advanced [...]

Although this central European country is world-famous for its beers and there is enthusiastic public support for it, wine has been made and consumed since the Czech Prince Borivoj demanding the planting of vineyards in the 13th century. A century later, there were enough grape growers so that an association was formed to guard their [...]

This Central Asian republic between the Caspian Sea, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Iran, located between latitudes 38 – 41 north is a minor wine producer.

In the 1990’s, chefs in Toronto and Montreal started to produce their own sausages, cured meats, and pates. Previously, practically all of these items were purchased, and most restaurants and food beverage operators continue to purchase them, some from small artisan producers others from huge nationally known manufacturers.

This Central Asian republic, with a population of a little more than 27 million is a CIS member (Commonwealth of Independent States) and produces mostly table grapes, and approximately the same amount of wine as Kazakhstan to the north.

Nuts are popular with the majority of the population, but for vegetarians they represent a welcome textural, nutritional, and flavour change.
Generally, nuts grow in tropical and subtropical climates, contain significant amounts of fat and are best to buy unshelled.

Nerses Tairian, a Yerevan businessman, who started a winery in 1877, distilled the first brandy in Armenia. The brandy was distilled ten year later.

This fertile land’s vitivinicultural history goes back to pre-Christian centuries. The long occupation of Ottoman Turks slowed wine making and the development of the wine industry.