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After meeting ih poetry class. the Gl, developed a friend ship. began trekking around the west coast. and then decid ed to see Europe together. "We heard that the hotel in Dublin. Ont. didnt have any- body to cook," Mini recalls, "So we went to the owner and said, 'Well run your kitchen.' He said. Tan you cook?' And we said 'Sure/ But we really couldn't, We didn't know how to They met some 25 years ago at the University of British Columbia - Mackay. then a high school English teacher, was attending a summer school poetry class, and Him had gone to UBC from len'd Lturier Univetsity to complete her fine arts degree, But that wéuld fake money. which neither had much of So they got jobs. The recipes are simple. require readily'available ingredients. and can be prepared easily on a stove top. And they celebrate the diversity of the various regions of Canada and the u.s, A cowboy cooknff in Edinburg, Tex. inspired One Nt Chicken Dinner. a tour on a frshing boal in the harbour of Stanley Bridge. PILL inspired Crispy Cod A COrange, and right here at home the Waterloo County and Area Quilt Festival inspired Melt-in-Your Mouth Sauerbraten, The friends and business partners' my _ _ _ their passion for both travel and cookmg Lamont Mackay (left) and tmyllts Hing have published goes back a fair way, With Waterloo as their home base, longtime Chronicle colum- nists Hinz and Mackay have spent the last five years traversing North America in their 40-foot motor home, creating stove-top recipes influenced by the places they visit. Those recipes, along with tales of adventure on the open road, have appeared every Wednesday in The Chronicle, and they now come together in the duo's debut cook- book. ( looking enthusiasts across the country will add anoth- er cookbook to their collec- tions when Recipes From The Road hits store shelves this week. But really. authors Phyllis Hinz and Lamont Mackay have created the book's mouth-watering recipes especially for Waterloo Chronicle readers. Literally. Recipes From The Road The 'cooking ladies'share their culippry creations Be DEBORAH CRANDAu. Chronicle Stat] - - LIFESTYLE At the Wan-don Inn 4‘5 king fit N So it's not surprising that on their return home the friends got back into the food biz, After a year's leave of absence, Mackay decided to leave teaching altogether. and the pair purchased a restaurant - Fabings Village Inn -- in St, Jacobs, They changed the name to The Melting Pot, and ran the business successfully for five years. But when life But they learned fdst. rah the hotel's kitchen for nearly a Veal. and made enough money to travel around Europe for months in a Volkswagen van. ' "We thought this/was a pretty good thing - this restau- rant business,” Hina says, "because we had enough money to go to Europe for nine months." run a deep fryer or anything." as a superb choice for mepltnns. meetings and special occasions Good things come in Branches Our 1fhioate' Secret is Out Our Private Dining Room is getting quite a reputation Sunday Brunch - Every Sunday 1030 a m - 200p m first cookbook IRUSHFS‘ Ptropte are talking MW Phyilis Hinz and Lamont Mackay will be at Words Worth Books in uptown Waterloo to sign copies of their book. Sept, ll beginning at 7:30 p.m. The book is also available at Chapters, For more information about Recipes From The Road, visit www.cooking‘ladies.com. But Hina and Mackay feel richer for having met them, as is evident by the poem in this week's Recipes From The Road columnIsee Page I2). "Our list of friends has gotten so long it's unbelievable," Mackay says. "Our neighbourhood has expanded. I describe it that way." or0M'To"""'" And of course, their outgoing personal- ities and skills in the RV kitchen have won them many friends along their travels. Some of those new friends they'll see again - most they won't. IMO!“ ”0'0 became so hectic and time-consuming they E could only tell the changing seasons by the con- g dition of the maple tree outside the kitchen win- a dow, they decided to sell. ii; After a brief stint in real estate, Hinz and Mackay got back into the business they know and love with Thus Eatery and later the cater- ing company of the same name. The Trios businesses were run with a third partner, Susan Emmott. one of Mackay's former stu- dents. In 1989, Emmott died of an asthma attack at age M. Recipes From The Road is dedicated to her. By the mid '90s, the urge to travel again began tugging at Him and Mackay. And in a daring move, they sold their business, their homes and all their belongings, bought a motor home and hit the road. The rest, as they say, is history. "We sold our houses, we had nine garage sales, and we bought the motor home," Mack- ay says. “The thing is, we don't have Children. so we don't have that to worry about. We're part of the group out there that's single and happy. That's what we are; that's what we do. And because we don't have those attach- ments. we can travel all over the place. We just wanted to be free -. to be able to decide what we'll do today and where we'll go today." IALL 884-0220 FOR RESERVATIONS Since hitting the road, Hinz and Mackay have continued writing for The Chronicle, as well as RV Lifestyle magazine and Forever Young. and have done restaurant consulting jobs from Texas to Prince Edward Island. The two women travelling alone in a "40- foot diesel pusher on a Cummins 325 horse-power engine on a Spartan chassis" get a lot of second looks from men in RV parks across North America and lot of "thumbs up" from women.