GAMES ON!

With the Winter Olympics coming up fast, we’ve assembled a mouth-watering South Korean-inspired menu with matching cocktails and craft beers to serve to the gang—perfect for getting together to cheer on your team!

THIS FEBRUARY, all eyes will be on PyeongChang, South Korea, and the XXIII Olympic Winter Games. We have no doubt that our brilliant Canadian athletes will perform superbly. To honour them and the Games we’ve developed a Korean-inspired menu that will definitely spice up your winter-sports watching.

Korean food is intensely flavoured, rich and textured, but it’s easy to make as most of it is one-dish cooking. Koreans love to barbecue meat, but in the cold winter months they also make succulent stews. At a typical meal, all the dishes are served family style and everyone helps themselves. Rice is always included and so are many small pickled, fermented, raw or cooked side dishes called banchan. Buy them at Korean markets and some Asian stores if you don’t want to make your own. For a quick guide to Korean pantry staples, see page 90.

To accompany our Korean feast we’ve chosen beers that will work with everything on the menu, and created two cocktails using Korea’s national spirit, soju. Perfect for toasting our athletes as they reach the podium!