Beefy Canadian

The Canadian Beef dinner at the residence of the Ambassador of Canada proved to be an interesting affair.

- Magnolia Silvestre

Just like most things Canadian, their beef is low key with the marketing, although it is a C$23B industry. But there is always great potential for expansion, especially in emerging culinary centers such as the Philippines.

I remember having eaten Canadian beef a couple of times before thinking it was just okay, good though not particularly memorable, but there was something about this particular batch that I liked. For one thing, it was robustly beefy as was shown in the beef carpaccio, which paired really well with a peppery arugula.

The dinner was called Canadian Beef for the Filipino Palate Fusion Dinner. It used to be that “fusion” was a scary word in the gourmet world, but I think the trends have come back around again to giving it another try because “restraint” is now something that accompanies fusion cuisine.