One of my
favourite stores in the distillery district of Toronto, the former Gooderham
and Worts Distillery which is the largest and best preserved site of Victorian
Industrial architecture in North America, is the A Taste of Quebec. The store which
is in the Cooperage building on Gristmill Lane carries the best artisan cheeses
and terrior products from the belle province as well as an art gallery section
which has recently expanded but the food products are still available on the
patio during the summer.
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Location of store is marked on the map above.
A custom
cheese plate I ate that was prepared specifically for me and which includes a
variety of hard and soft artisan cheeses from Quebec that I chose from a large
selection.
Patrons eating in the former dining area in the art gallery section of the establishment.
A selection
of Quebec micro brewed beers and artisan ciders (above) is available for consumption
with the food, all made with ingredients from Quebec, in the picture below.
The Le 1608
Charlevoix cheese shown below is a semi-firm, washed rind cheese from the
Canadienne cattle, an indigenous Quebec Charlevoix region breed that was
brought from France between 1608 and 1670. The cheese, aged between two and six
months, from the Labbé family farm has an interior fruity flavour but tastes
nutty at the rind.
The Cendré des prés cheese below is an artisanal cheese which is made of cow milk and possesses a bloomy rind. In the middle of the camembert style cheese is a line of maple wood ash that lends this cheese a particular flavour of farm fresh butter.
Grey Owl cheese is prepared at Fromagerie
Le Détour in Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec by Ginette Bégin and Mario Quirion and
the milk comes from a Swiss breed called Saanen. The colour of the thin cheese rind
comes from an edible ash in which it’s rolled.
And here are
some pictures of other cheeses available.
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