When gourmet chefs and farmers converged this weekend on a downtown hotel for a day of networking and discussion about locally produced food, the hotel had to find a larger room to accommodate their numbers. It's a sign of the growing movement towards incorporating the broad range of meats, vegetables, fruits, herbs and grains that are produced in Saskatchewan into high-end restaurant menus, said the proprietor of a local eatery that's been serving Prairie-grown meals for some 13 years. "Just to see the progress that we've made as a community in terms of supporting local, the quality of food...
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