{"id":3935,"date":"2008-09-05T09:46:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T13:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2008-09-05T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T13:46:59","slug":"parks-commission-brings-culture-to-victoria-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/parks-commission-brings-culture-to-victoria-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks Commission brings culture to Victoria Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1715\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leonardo Najle has worked in kitchens in the United States, Brazil and his native Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>But on his first trip to Canada, the 35-year-old executive chef at the Iguazu Grand Hotel Resort and Casino is choosing to call Niagara Falls home \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; at least during his two-week stay.<\/p>\n<p>Najle is one of about 25 Argentineans taking part in a visit to Niagara Falls to promote their own parks region \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; complete with Iguazu Falls, which border both Argentina and and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>He and Niagara Parks Commission Executive Corporate Chef Paul Pennock have worked together to create a menu of Argentine delights, including empanadas with chimichurri sauce, grilled lamb with Malbec wine sauce and panqueque con dolce de leche.<\/p>\n<p>The empanadas, Pennock said, have been especially popular at both Elements on the Falls and at Edgewaters, the two Parks Commission restaurants taking part in the Celebrate Cultures event.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We thought we made enough for a week,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Pennock said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re making more every day.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Leonardo Najle has worked in kitchens in the United States, Brazil and his native Argentina. But on his first trip to Canada, the 35-year-old executive chef at the Iguazu Grand Hotel Resort and Casino is choosing to call Niagara Falls home \u00e2\u20ac&#8221; at least during his two-week stay. Najle is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}