Reference number : GC-2017-Q4-01131, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : MacDonald, Gerard Alexander (Sandy) (Holland College), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Prince Edward Island|Île-du-Prince-Édouard, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Engage Grants for colleges, program name french : Subventions d'engagement partenarial pour les collèges, program purpose english : Mario Baini's Emporium (Mario's) is a local grocer and take-out restaurant in Truro, Nova Scotia. For the past_x000D_
12 years, Mario's has been producing custom toum sauces and spice blends based on traditional Lebanese_x000D_
flavours for retail and the demand has been growing organically year over year. A toum sauce is made from_x000D_
crushed garlic/olive oil and popular throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Mario's has approached Canada's_x000D_
Smartest Kitchen (CSK) at Holland College to help refine several versions of the garlic sauces and to help align_x000D_
those strong flavours with a more North American style palette. Canada's Smartest Kitchen, a Technology_x000D_
Access Center, is co-located in Charlottetown, PEI with the Culinary Institute of Canada, and is a culinary_x000D_
creativity R&D center that has focuses on new food product development, food science and marketing. CSK_x000D_
proposes to work closely with Mario Baini's Emporium to develop several toum sauces that would appeal to_x000D_
Canadians and mesh with North American cuisine. In this research collaboration, CSK will explore the_x000D_
potential for this product to be shelf stable vs refrigerated, explore new packaging technologies and "food kit"_x000D_
opportunities and conduct sensory science experiments on the organoleptic properties of the product. CSK will_x000D_
also identify a co-packer for the scale up of the benchtop prototypes to enable full production. This is the first_x000D_
collaboration between Mario Baini's Emporium and Holland College., program purpose french : Mario Baini's Emporium (Mario's) is a local grocer and take-out restaurant in Truro, Nova Scotia. For the past_x000D_
12 years, Mario's has been producing custom toum sauces and spice blends based on traditional Lebanese_x000D_
flavours for retail and the demand has been growing organically year over year. A toum sauce is made from_x000D_
crushed garlic/olive oil and popular throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Mario's has approached Canada's_x000D_
Smartest Kitchen (CSK) at Holland College to help refine several versions of the garlic sauces and to help align_x000D_
those strong flavours with a more North American style palette. Canada's Smartest Kitchen, a Technology_x000D_
Access Center, is co-located in Charlottetown, PEI with the Culinary Institute of Canada, and is a culinary_x000D_
creativity R&D center that has focuses on new food product development, food science and marketing. CSK_x000D_
proposes to work closely with Mario Baini's Emporium to develop several toum sauces that would appeal to_x000D_
Canadians and mesh with North American cuisine. In this research collaboration, CSK will explore the_x000D_
potential for this product to be shelf stable vs refrigerated, explore new packaging technologies and "food kit"_x000D_
opportunities and conduct sensory science experiments on the organoleptic properties of the product. CSK will_x000D_
also identify a co-packer for the scale up of the benchtop prototypes to enable full production. This is the first_x000D_
collaboration between Mario Baini's Emporium and Holland College., agreement title english : Creating and Scaling a North American-Style Toum Sauce, agreement title french : Creating and Scaling a North American-Style Toum Sauce, agreement number : CARD1, agreement value : 25000.0, agreement start date : 2018-03-07, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)., additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier (2017-2018 à 2018-2019)., owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada