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New smart phone app links foodies to Nova Scotia ‘Adventures in Taste.’

Book a table, tour a distillery, hunt for chanterelles, take in traditional Scottish dance and song at a ceilidh.

by Kathryn Harley Haynes 23 July 2010

In Nova Scotia, on Canada’s east coast, culinary adventure can range all the way from a mussel festival to lessons in maple sugaring to winery tours. Now all this is as close as your smart phone. Adventures in Taste is a new app that helps you plan your food and wine fun around Nova Scotia. Downloading the free Adventures in Taste app (you’ll find the link on the website or at the Apple App Store) gets you an interactive, location-aware travel guide with a culinary focus. Access restaurant listings to book a table, plan an outing or check out what festival fare is coming up.

Behind the initiative are Taste of Nova Scotia, the Winery Association of Nova Scotia and The Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage.

The collection currently numbers roughly 100, with restaurants, local producers, specialty food shops, farmers’ markets, u-picks, breweries and wineries. Among the culinary tours and packages on offer are chanterelle foraging on Cape Breton Island, a distillery tour that wraps up with the song and dance of a traditional ceilidh, a 100-mile diet tour of Nova Scotia’s southwest, an introduction to French New World cuisine, cooking classes, tasting menus, brewery tours and a potpourri of wine adventures, including a night in a vineyard.   

www.novascotia.com

video:

Foxhill Cheese House in Port Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYSHB-PZ2w

Gaspereau Wineries in the Gaspereau Valley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RX4oMBsAOg

Grand Pre Winery in the Annapolis Valley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEfFeOisOGc

How to cook a scallop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRqfxQH4woI

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