Eat to the Beat - All Female Chefs

Eat to the Beat was a glamorous affair hosted at the Roy Thomson Hall. As Willow Breast Cancer Support Canada’s annual fundraising gala, the night featured over 60 of Canada’s finest chefs spread across the main foyer.

Chefs focused on locally grown, sustainable, seasonal foods. Our favorites were ACE Bakery's mushroom consomme with gruyere and enoki and Jacqueline Lo's macaron, with a tie for the mains between Esther Benaim's duck confit with apple chip and quince jam versus Lindsay Skoropada with Cortney Zettler's smoked duck breast on sesame with sea buckthorn and cranberries. We'd also like to give merit to Royal Ontario Museum's c5c for their sirloin, done rare and presented in a shot glass with a ground cherry tomato base. 

Accompanied by a clean, smooth chardonnay from The Grange of Prince Edward, we browsed the silent auction and put down our names for a signed pair of ballet shoes by Tina Pereira of the National Ballet of Canada. The most fun of the bunch was a recorded voicemail offered by Jian Ghomeshi of CBC.

With live music and an endless supply of food and wine of the best quality, the only hangup of the night was figuring how to stagger out of Roy Thomson gracefully.