Eigensinn

At Eigensinn Farm, a crazy, exquisite, fabulous flashback of a restaurant a couple of hours northwest of Toronto, chef Michael Stadtländer served an enormous whole trout that he had pulled in from the grounds' pond.

Earth, Wind, Fire and Fish Chris Nuttall-Smith 2011

I should have enjoyed Eigensinn, I am sure; you know I have read it in German ....

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Prentiss, George L 1882

I should have enjoyed Eigensinn, I am sure; you know I have read it in German ....

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss George L. Prentiss 1859

So does Eigensinn Farm slow-roasted pork and crackling with grilled cabbage, carrots and green beans.

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Butter-poached Georgian Bay lake trout winds up in an oyster shell with Eigensinn Farm beets and blue potatoes.

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But first, we gather by the fire pit to eat slices of smoked ham from Stadtländer's Eigensinn Farm.

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We also got a chance to poke around the farm, checking out the pigs, chickens and roosters that Eigensinn keeps.

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I was at Eigensinn working for the annual Wild Leek and Maple Syrup Festival, a gathering of (mostly Torontonian) chefs and eaters whose appreciation for wild leeks bring them to the farm for a truly unique eating experience.

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Stadtländer is an internationally renowned chef, whose farm-to-table eatery at Eigensinn was 15 years ahead of the locavore movement now taking hold of the city and has been ranked as one of the

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It is a little less exclusive than the 12-seater farm dinners at Eigensinn, but every bit as authentic with most ingredients coming straight from the farm.

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