Eatdrink #82 March/April 2020

eatdrink: The Local Food & Drink Magazine
in the kitchen at Black Trumpet Restaurant for
a year and with respected culinary instructor
and educator, Maya (Clarke) Love, at Real
Canadian Superstore. She also worked at the
Covent Garden Market part-time, eventually
purchasing the New Delhi Deli, becoming the
fourth owner of the business.
Mudliar works seven days a week, making
everything from scratch, on-site. She started
cooking with her mother at the age of four.
Both parents cooked at home. Mudliar serves
a distinct Indian-South Asian/Caribbean
fusion cuisine. In many Fijians’ homes,
cuisines from other cultures are prepared
on a regular basis, such as Indian masalas
(Mudliar roasts and grinds her own Indian
and Caribbean spice blends) and specialties
from South Asia and the West Indies. This
cuisine is rooted in and reflects the diaspora
of hundreds of thousands of indentured
labourers taken to the sugar cane fields of
the Fiji Islands, Caribbean, South Africa and
Mauritius to replace freed African slaves.
Mudliar’s repertoire includes items such as
jerk chicken (it takes three months to ferment
a batch of fiery scotch bonnet peppers to
make her jerk seasoning), oxtail, curry goat,
roti wraps, onion bhajias, samosas and
seafood, curry chicken and Jamaican patties
that only skill and expertise can produce
properly. The New Delhi Deli offers a selection
of gluten-free, plant-based and vegan options.
Mudliar’s niece Seema Narayan recently
arrived from Fiji via the United States to give
her a helping hand at the Deli. Mudliar has
enrolled her in the Fanshawe College Culinary
program, to bring things full circle.
Ann Neydon Wilson
Owner, Oxley Estate Winery, Harrow
oxleyestatewinery.com
As told to Kym Wolfe
My husband Murray Wilson and I both grew
up on farms. When I retired from practicing
law I was ready for another adventure; I think
Murray just wanted to drive a tractor again!
We started the winery in 2010 when we
planted our first five acres of vines on a
farm near our home. We named the winery
after the historic hamlet of Oxley where it
is located. We have a rich sandy soil that
grapevines love, and in year two we had a
hellishly hot summer — perfect conditions for
growing grapes! We opened the winery and
restaurant in a renovated 1920 barn, built the
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