Accompanied by baby carrots, baby turnips and tender young spinach leaves, it seemed the perfect spring dish.

Most baby turnips can be eaten whole, including their leaves.

Loin of veal is sublime, too, flanked by baby turnips, carrots, green beans and a terrific puree of those Orient Point potatoes.

The sweetness comes from the onion confit that tops the pot roast and from baby carrots and baby turnips.

Pigs' feet are another lusty house specialty, simply roasted and served with baby turnips.

Among the entrees is pan-roasted venison accompanied by a ragout of fiddlehead ferns, morel mushrooms and baby turnips.

Book well in advance to try its Canadian take on French cuisine: seared foie gras with Niagara stone fruit or Arctic char with baby turnips.

The meat, a heaping helping, is surrounded by baby turnips, assorted mushrooms and bright green fava beans, which always remind me of very tiny steaks.

Next week's spring baskets will contain bunches of baby carrots, golden beets, long white baby turnips, peas, snow peas, snap peas, broccoli and baby leeks.

But how did the guests - chief executives and leaders of countries among them - know that the lavender honey-glazed duck on baby white turnips was safe to eat?