The Walleye Magazine

Before the Plate

(2018)

This is a Canadian story about farming, food, cooking and a restaurant. I first saw it at a special screening hosted partially by local farmers at the Thunder Bay Country Market. Canoe is a high-end Toronto restaurant. It is also high-in-thesky, located on the 54th floor of a Toronto high-rise. John Horne is Canoe’s renowned chef. Director Sagi Kahane-Rapport begins in Horne’s kitchen as the chef explains what will be the special plate he will serve his customers that evening. Then he leads Kahane-Rapport out to the various local farms and producers that provide the natural ingredients that will go into this special plate. We meet a potato farmer (back in his kitchen, Horne will build for us the most mouthwatering tater tots you’ve ever seen), other vegetable and meat producers, all of which welcome us into their domains. We also learn the serious challenges of growing and producing food in Ontario in our time.

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