Stephanie Alexander to speak at Slow Food Congress
12/05/2010 Stephanie Alexander to speak at Slow Food Congress
Stephanie Alexander, founder of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation will be speaking at the Inaugural Slow Food Congress in Canberra on Saturday May 29, 2010.
Stephanie will speak about the importance of the Kitchen Garden program in educating young children about food and positively influencing food choices.
How the creation and care of a Kitchen Garden teaches children the joy and appreciation of growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing fresh, seasonal produce. Alexander joins an impressive line-up of experts in sustainability, Indigenous food, and food education for children.
Guest speakers include Bruce French, founder of Food Plants International who has devoted 30 years’ of his life to the development of a simple and sustainable response to global malnutrition. French will talk about how his life-saving information can help communities in need.
Clarence Slockee, renowned Aboriginal plant and bush educator at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens and guest presenter on the ABC Gardening series has been invited to speak about sustainability and the indigenous food culture.
Gary Thomas, founder of Spudhunters will entertain and educate children from 4 to 10 years with an exciting interactive food education from the paddock to the plate.
The Slow Food Congress 2010 organised by Slow Food Australia is open to anyone interested in participating in the food debate. Across the country Slow Food foster community awareness of food that is good for you doesn’t hurt the environment and producers and workers receive a fair price for their work.
The weekend’s activity includes a tour of the Capital Region Farmers’ Market at Exhibition Park in the morning followed by addresses by the guest speakers as outlined above.
Slow Food works with artisan producers to market their foods, helps school communities to develop kitchen gardens, promotes food traditions and knowledge, and organises tasting workshops and events through which the source of food, farming methods, and the importance of food sustainability for ourselves and the planet is learnt.
Slow Food Australia is a non profit organisation, the public are welcome to attend a speaker session for a donation of $10.00
Watch Suzanne Gibbs show you how to cook with a pressure cooker
6/05/2009 The Pressure Cooker Recipe Book by Author Suzanne Gibbs. This cookbook for Pressure cookers allow us to cook quickly, cheaply and efficiently, shortening cooking time by up to 70 per cent and enabling the use of cheaper ingredients. Here consummate home cook and magazine editor Suzanne Gibbs selects more than 80 of her favourite pressure-cooker recipes, and describes the process from beginning to end. Learn how to cook an osso bucco in 25 minutes, a chicken tagine in 15 minutes and a delicious bread and butter pudding in 20 minutes. Packed with information on practicalities such as choosing, using and cleaning your cooker, and fully illustrated with beautiful photography.
3/07/2009 UK cook & author Rachel Allen has released her new cookbook Rachel’s Food For Living
Ever feel rapture over a pudding? Fall in love over a romantic meal? Can you remember the smell of baking in your grandmother’s kitchen? Food has the power to conjure up many emotions – it can make us feel happy or energetic nostalgic or loved. Cooking and enjoying great food with others is part of how we relish life and in her new paperback book Rachel Allen provides the mouth-watering recipes to help you do just that.
Rachel explores the foods that stir these wonderful feelings. She provides inspiring and easy-to-achieve suggestions for all kinds of occasions whether you want to make an indulgent celebratory meal for someone special create memories with your kids or need a little healthy boost…or a sneaky treat! This is the food that will make you smile.
Rachel’s Food For Living has over 100 recipes such as Perfect Lamb Stew; Korean Beef with Avocado Rice; Spanish Chorizo and Chickpea Soup; Little Mocha Kisses.
Contents include:
1.Food for the soul.
2.Childhood favourites.
3.Making memories with your children.
4.Food to celebrate a special day.
5.The Lazy Sunday – from breakfast in bed to the perfect roast.
6.Afternoon tea – an elegant afternoon.
7.Pleasure…without the guilt.
8.Food for romance.
9.For the love of chocolate.
10.Famous classics (with a twist!).
3/07/2009 Serial cook and author Donna Hay has just released her latest excellent cookbook – The Instant Cook
Donna’s groundbreaking book The Instant Cook now comes in a beautiful paperback edition.
Showcasing fuss-free recipes Donna’s trademark modern photography and styling – plus her tips on how to get the best results out of whatever you’re making for cooking – this is the book to turn to when asked ‘what’s for dinner?’. Whether you need to whip up busy midweek fare for a famished family or present something chic and easy for a casual weekend dinner with friends – time is on your side with Donna Hay’s moreish collection of over 190 inspiring recipes.
Donna gives her readers the know-how and confidence to create great meals that are filling and substantial at short notice: soup; salads; pasta rice & noodles; chicken; meat; fish + seafood; vegetables; sweets. Each chapter also includes a new feature in which Donna shows you one essential sauce or dish with three very clever twists for you to then create three very fresh and original meals and concludes with her ever-popular ’short order’ ideas: quick dishes to serve on the side or as meals on their own using simple methods and flavour combinations.
The Great Shiraz Challenge - Saturday October 24 2009
4/07/2009
The Great Shiraz Challenge with James Halliday and Bob Campbell, M.W.
The finale to the 2009 Food & Wine series at CapeKidnappers is a must for wine lovers – The Great Shiraz Challenge! New Zealand’s top wine guru Bob Campbell, M.W. will take on his rival across the ditch James Halliday as they both field a Shiraz line up from their home country to see who comes out on top. Campbell will challenge with Shiraz from Hawke’s Bay’s famed Gimblett Gravels while Halliday is choosing top examples from the YarraValley and Mornington Peninsula.
The weekend allows ample free time for guests to enjoy the many leisure options available at this luxurious property. A world class golf course, full service Spa, scenic walks or venture further a field for fishing, winery visits, and more.
The price for the event is NZ$800 per person (double occupancy) per night plus GST and includes luxury accommodation, Great Shiraz Challenge tasting on Saturday afternoon 3-5pm with Bob Campbell and James Halliday, an evening degustation dinner with matched wines and Halliday and Campbell as special guests, plus a full breakfast and choice of a round of golf or a 50 minute massage.
The wines to be enjoyed as part of the Great Shiraz Challenge 2009 are:
From New Zealand:
Craggy Range 2006 Le Sol
Trinity Hill 2006 Homage
Bilancia 2006 La Collina
Church Road 2006 Syrah
Vidal Reserve 2006 Syrah
From Australia:
Paringa Estate 2007 Estate Shiraz
Yering Station 2007 Shiraz Viognier
Red Hill Estate 2007 MorningtonPeninsulaShiraz
Toolangi Vineyards 2007 ReserveYarraValleyShiraz
Domaine Chandon 2006 BarrelSelectionYarraValleyShiraz
For reservations at CapeKidnappers phone +64 6 875 1900 or email reservations@capekidnappers.com
3/07/2009 Little Vietnam brings together 80 authentic recipes that capture the energy, colour and excitement of Vietnamese cooking. Acclaimed Vietnamese-Australian Chef Nhut Huynh shares his passion for the food that sustained his family during times of war and separation, and that remains a defining feature of Vietnam’s wonderfully rich culture. Out on June 29 is Nhut Huynh’s Vietnamese cookbook Little Vietnam which features over 80 dishes from his days at the popular Sydney restaurant RQ and his new restaurant Snakebean. He introduces traditional classics alongside the eclectic street-stall dishes he has collected on his many trips back to visit friends and family. We learn how to cook restaurant favourites such as Beef Noodle Soup and Salt & Pepper Squid, as well as more exotic dishes like Crab with Tamarind & Chilli. Throughout, Nhut offers practical tips on sourcing ingredients and mastering cooking techniques.
Beautifully photographed, this book inspires us to re-create the food so many of us have enjoyed as travellers or in the Vietnamese restaurants that are now so much a part of Australian life.
Watch Nhut Huynh whip up a delicious banana flower salad on Mornings with Kerrie-Anne
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