The Search for Calgary’s Best Hardboiled Egg Dishes: Scotch Eggs, Deviled Eggs, and Egg Salad/Sandwiches BY LINDA GARSON
Egg and Spoon
La Belle Graze
Visionary
Eggs! One of the simplest, most affordable, and versatile foods and as we know, much beloved by Albertans. They play an enormous role in our food system, with 168 egg-farming families in our province that keep things clucking along to supply us with fresh, high-quality, and nutritious eggs – all checked and certified that they are produced according to strict standards of food safety and animal welfare. Last year, our Alberta egg farms produced over 980 million eggs! So, in collaboration with the Egg
Farmers of Alberta, we set out to find out how Calgary fares in the world of hardboiled egg dishes – and embarked upon another amazing and completely delicious journey. We asked our readers and our followers on social media, television, and radio, to nominate your favourites, and we were thrilled at the enthusiastic response: dozens of cafés, bakeries, pubs, restaurants, and caterers
around the city on your list of must-tries! We knew we couldn’t tackle this alone, so we engaged four local eggspert and eggsperienced judges (sorry!): Elizabeth Chorney-Booth, local food writer/CBC radio and Calgary Herald contributor; and SAIT Chefs Hayato Okamitsu CCC and Vanessa Mendoza, along with yours truly – to taste through all these recommendations and find the very best. April 2024 | Culinaire 21