5/11/2023 0 Comments Cutie Pies by Barbara Bell“Cutie Pies has been percolating in my brain for a long time while studying wine in Toronto,” she explains. Wine and food have always been a natural pairing for Burnett. “I really love Grey County and thought if I were going to reside in Ontario, it would be here,” she says. Her boss, chef Shawn Adler, encouraged her to sell her product at a little weekly market he was running that summer, and before long, Cutie Pies Pizza was born.īurnett currently lives in Markdale, and first came to the area 12 years ago after travelling around Canada. So, she brought a sample of the pizza in to her work at The Flying Chestnut Kitchen in Eugenia, the restaurant where she had been running the front-of-house for a decade and curated the wine and beverage list. Immediately, she loved the flavour and the health benefits of naturally fermented dough. Machaella Burnett, a sommelier and hospitality industry veteran, had been stuck at home during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 and tried out something new in her kitchen.Īt the time, she couldn’t find any yeast in her grocery store, so she began experimenting with making sourdough pizza. Sometimes, it takes a pandemic lockdown to bring a great idea to life.
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