November 7/05 – Shirley Spafford of Saskatoon and Ben Garfinkel of Vancouver are each a winner of a Chow cookbook. Thanks to all who entered. You can still enter the contest for a Michael Smith Chef at Home cookbook until November 11th. Click here for that contest page.
For those of you wondering about a contest I had running way back before the CBC lockout, it was cancelled due to insufficient entries.
Hi Mr. Genova:
Just listened to your CBC program on POLENTA. I guess I am a POLENTONA aka a northern Italian, who was actually born there! I enjoy your program very much.
Regarding polenta, I invite you to come to Grand Forks, B.C. to eat an exquisite polenta made by my mother Giacomina Boscariol. In fact, the very evening of your program we were at Mom’s eating polenta! Accompanying the polenta was exquisite trout that my husband caught at one of the nearby lakes. However, my mother prepares it in a delicious tomato sauce. It would be too long to write an explain how to prepare it. It is in the tasting — to die for! Also Mom makes a wonderful “stuffato” to accompany the plenta. My Mom MAKES her own polenta, none of this tube stuff for us! And, my father (now deceased) years ago made a beautiful board for the polenta. AND the polenta is cut with a STRING if you wish to be authentic! My husband is a CAlabrese and so we have melded and enjoy food from both regions of Italy and combine our gourmet cooking with good Canadian fare.
Anyway, we LOVE your show and just wanted you to know that in the Boundary country of the province there are paesani who carry on the tradition of Italia bella. Come and taste a real polenta feed, Grand Forks is located in the beautiful Sunshine Valley. We’re about one and a half hour’s drive from Osoyoos, and about the same distance from Trail where everyone assumes all Italians live.
Come see us! Life is good here.
Willy Triveri