A Vintage year for Peaches – Chef Ricardo Larrivee recognizes Niagara’s best harvest
Starts:
August 21, 2010 4:00 pm
Ends:
August 21, 2010 9:00 pm
Location:
Kurtz Orchards
Cost:
$125pp + tax
“I love Niagara and wouldn’t be anywhere else this peach season,” says celebrity chef Ricardo Larrivèe, star of Ricardo & Friends (Food Network TV), of one of Niagara’s best peach harvests in decades. In fact, this year’s harvest is so great that Ricardo will be featuring his Niagara peach experience in his magazine, Ricardo. It is predicted that 2010 will go down in history as being one of the best vintage years for wine and one of the most delicious agriculture years in remembered history. The season got a great head start with a dry and warmer than average spring. May rains gave gardens, vineyards and orchards an extra boost and all of the regions harvests to date have been anywhere from 14 to 21 days ahead of normal harvest times.
In addition to early and bountiful harvests, the sun and heat are producing incredibly sweet fruit and abundantly flavourful vegetables – especially Niagara’s peaches! If there’s anyone not buying local food this summer, they’re missing out on extraordinary local food.
Working with the Niagara Culinary Trail Ricardo will host an elaborate celebrity event in the peach orchards on the Kurtz farm in Niagara-on-the-Lake. In what promises to be this summer’s best food and wine event, Ricardo will give a pre-dinner, private cooking demonstration followed by a 5-course peach inspired dinner prepared by five of Niagara’s top chefs. To top off the evening, Ricardo has a secret surprise for everyone who attends.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Cooking Demonstration, 4 – 5:30 Orchard Dinner, 5:30 pm – 9 pm
Surprise peach activity to follow!
Kurtz Orchards, Niagara Parkway
$125/person (+ tax)
For tickets and information on dining with Ricardo and his new Niagara friends contact: Kurtz Orchards 905-468-2937
info@kurtzorchards.com
www.NiagaraCulinaryTrail.com
info@kurtzorchards.com
www.NiagaraCulinaryTrail.com
