Delivery services offer local content

Response continues to grow for the new online service Locally Yours offering gift baskets full of products from Windsor and Essex County sources and suppliers. The items include jams, honey, handmade soap, biscotti, cookies, maple syrup and wine jelly.
Rachelle Booth, of Windsor, opened the service two months ago. She saw an opportunity to provide items as gifts and was impressed with the Downtown Farmers' Market last year.
She offers delivery and a long list of suppliers have signed on. The service showcases their items as gifts, opens a new market and sales outlet and offers more exposure. As the service develops, Booth expects to offer more information and stories about the suppliers.
The website www.locallyyours.ca offers information or call 519-253-0888. Natural, local and organic food items continue to remain popular with consumers. A new service joins a variety of food delivery programs available in the area. Izabela Muzzin, with Aleksander Estate Winery, expects to open, with her husband Mark, their County Connect as an online market early next month to provide access to locally grown products, information on local food sources and how items are grown or raised.

OPEN HOUSE, SALE FOR COOKS

The annual open house next week at Williams Food Equipment includes sales and supplier demonstrations and has become a must-see event for commercial chefs and consumers alike. While the open house is scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday next week, prices remain in effect through May 8.
The hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 5.
Look for wine tastings Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday next week. The restaurant supply and retail store for chefs is open on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Williams assures that everything is on sale and specials remain available. Williams Food Equipment is located at 2150 Ambassador Dr. Call 519-969-1919.

FOOD AND WINE EVENTS

Thursday. A special Tweetup dining event at Motor Burger, 888 Erie St. E. Twitter users can meet, listen to music and enjoy food. Guests can tweet their way through the night with live tweets projected onto walls. Menu includes signature burgers. Tickets cost $30 per person and are available online at WindsorEats.com.
Friday. Battle of the Hors D'oeuvres, at the Ciociaro Club, 3745 North Talbot Rd., with 10 area food organizations in competition. Event includes a wine-tasting reception with 10 area wineries. Celebrity judges include Windsor native Eddie Mio, who will bring samples from the No. 99 Wayne Gretzky Estates Winery.
Since goaltending for Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers and Detroit Red Wings, Mio has partnered with pal Wayne Gretzky for an award-winning winery.