I recently arrived at the wow-worthy Sparkling Hill Resort and you better believe that I’m still unpacking my head from this pretty amazing bath. It is the first of four nights away as I and several colleagues get down to the business of judging the Canadian Culinary Championships.

It’s going to be a lot of fun, but I have the extra task of refereeing the competitions, so the work is actually a little more demanding than most would assume. Consequently, rather than writing hourly posts on Scout to update you on how things are coming along (eg. how local boy Rob Clark of “C” Restaurant and his competitors are doing), I’ll be micro-blogging on Twitter (follow us) instead and posting updates and photos to our brand spanking new Facebook page (for those who tweet, let’s use the hashtag #CCC2011).

For some flavour of the event, watch the video above from last year.