bottles of high-end canola oil

Culinary experts get to test – and taste – artisanal canola oil

Manitoba chefs were recently offered a taste of cold-pressed, extra-virgin canola oil

Culinary experts throughout the province recently got their hands on a few samples of an innovative new canola product, straight out of the product development department at Portage’s Food Development Centre. The Manitoba Canola Growers Association in collaboration with the Manitoba Agri-Health Research Network Inc. (MAHRN) have started cold pressing canola to develop virgin canola

chef preparing food

Manitoba Culinary Institute hosts Black Box Challenge

The Manitoba Canola Growers Association and Manitoba Pork offer up scholarship funds 
in a student-based culinary competition

Students at the Manitoba Institute of Culinary Arts employed their homegrown ingredients as they faced off in a Black Box Challenge to earn scholarship funds and bragging rights last week. Assiniboine Community College hosted its annual Black Box Culinary Competition on April 9-10, sponsored by Manitoba Pork and the Manitoba Canola Growers Association. Competing students



Instructors Hired For New Horticultural Program

Assiniboine Community College (ACC) welcomes two new instructors to the college’s new horticultural production program that starts this fall. Lord Abbey and Sajjad Rao have strong credentials that will open the doors to applied research in horticultural production. ACC’s current research project is funded by the Canada-Manitoba Growing Forward Strategic Innovation Fund Advancing Agri- Innovation


Food Fight Top Prize Goes To Hemp Cookies

Hemp’s growing popul arity got another boost last week with the grand prize at the Great Manitoba Food Fight going to a rural Manitoba woman who has created a cookie with it. New Bothwell’s Natalie Dueck took home $15,000 and the gold medal for her product she calls her “chocolate hemp snackers.” She was one

In Brief… – for Jan. 20, 2011

Vet fined:A Manitoba veterinarian has been fined $10,000 for certifying uninspected cattle for export. Dr. Earl Van Assen pleaded guilty in a Winnipeg court to two counts of contravening the federal Health of Animals Act. Court was told Van Assen submitted certification documents in Feb. 2009 for 42 cows shipped to the United States, stating


Food Fight Changes Course

Big changes are coming to the 2011 Great Manitoba Food Fight, including a new venue, earlier deadlines and more rigorous application procedures. The food fight – where competitors enter a food product they’ve developed – is being moved next spring to Assiniboine Community College’s campus Manitoba Institute of Culinary Arts faculty. Until now, the event

Ideas Sought For The “Great Manitoba Food Fight”

Manitobans with a great new food or beverage idea are invited to enter the “Great Manitoba Food Fight” scheduled in April as part of the 2011 Capturing Opportunities event. Competitors pitch their product ideas and provide a product sample to a panel of judges. First-, second-and third-place finalists receive product development awards valued at $15,000,


Food Fight Challengers Sought

The fifth annual Great Manitoba Food Fight is open for challengers, Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives Minister Stan Struthers announced Nov. 24. Manitobans with a great new food or beverage idea are invited to enter the Great Manitoba Food Fight scheduled in April as part of the 2011 Capturing Opportunities event. “In the past four