Every month Canadian Living tries to create recipes using Canadian-grown food. As it turns out, we've been "green eaters" all along: buying your food locally where the food is grown reduces greenhouse emissions from transport, supports smaller-scale farming and encourages cultivation of native-Canadian plant varieties.

What's local now?
But if you're trying to eat locally this month, what could possibly be available at the end of winter? On Friday April 11th at the Berkeley Church in Toronto, the The Brewer's Plate Toronto event - a celebration of craft beer and fine cuisine - will prove that at the end of a harsh Canadian winter there's plenty of local food to eat.

For $150 per person, The Brewer's Plate Toronto will feature artisanal cheeses, breads, sausages, stews of wild game and root vegetables, pickles and preserves of every description from Jamie Kennedy Kitchens, La Palette, Veritas, Cowbell, the Gladstone and Rebel House. Libations from local independent craft breweries include Mill Street, Cameron’s Wellington, Church-Key, Steam Whistle and Black Oak, used either in the recipes or paired specific cuisines.

Show us how green you are and win two free tickets!
The Foodie-file is giving away two free tickets - worth $300 - to one lucky
Canadian Living reader. To be eligible, post a comment in the Friday March 28th
post where we are asking you to post your best ideas for eating local during
winter's bitter end months - March and April. Click here to go to this blog post now >>

Proceeds for this event will benefit Green Enterprise Toronto, and is co-sponsored by Local Food Plus and Slow Food Toronto.