Great stuff in the Hills this weekend.

The Mundaring Truffle festival is on again ( a year already!) A celebration of the black truffle finding its home here, there's much to do. There will be stalls, fantastic food, the Perth Slow Food convivium, events, Truffle Treasure Hunt by bike, classes, music, Alain Fabrègues of the Loose Box and Shannon Bennett of Vue de Monde doing their master classes (booking essential)... it's all here. .

Same weekend, same place is the Perth Hills Wine Show. 130 wines have been entered this year, with 59 receiving medals**. All of these will be available for public tasting. Open from 11am – 5pm each day at The Hub on Craig Street Mundaring Entry is $15 per person including a souvenir wine glass, tastings and show program.

** results summary below the fold.

Continue reading "The Hills Have Funghis - Mundaring Truffle Festival and Perth Hills Wine Show 2& 3rd of August" »

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Thanks to everyone who came over and said howdy. Despite a couple of sad faces when we said we didn't actually have any food or wine, it was great to see the shift from the early years in the number of people who had seen, bought, or subscribed to SPICE

Congratulations also to both winners of the Ferngrove wine pack and the Stanlee professional chef kit and thanks to both companies for providing the prizes.

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The Slow Food Perth Convivium is having a Pie Night to raise funds for the Terre Madre. Make yourself a pie (no, not you Mrs Lovett) and enter the competition on the night. All pies will be shared later.

Saturday 19th July from 6:30pm at Kleenmaid, Scarborough Beach Road.
Entry by note donation

Booking is essential (by the 16th) and you can get a booking form by emailing info at slowfoodperth dot org dot au or by going to their website.

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There's an expo at The Herdsman in Churchlands this weekend (5th and 6th of July). There are more details at their website. Local producers will be there and up and coming Over the Moon Albany cheesemaker Juliet Bateman will be giving a demo. Lot's of stuff for the kids and when I see Puppet Show, I always secretly hope there'll be a support act.

UPDATE!!!!!!: POSTPONED until the 19th & 20th of July due to the severe storm front coming through this weekend.

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A few inquiries, so just so you know: the amount of butter required for the recipe for the Persimmon Cake in our Autumn 08 issue is 125grams.

Apologies for that: much soul searching and resolving 'not to do that again'. Thanks to all those who asked. Recipe over the fold.

Continue reading "Just in case you were wondering..." »

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Not traditionally the best catered-to group of diners in WA but take heart: "due to popular demand the VEGAN FEAST and WINE TASTING is on again in 2008 - David from PAWS is bringing the PAWS food van to attend on Sunday JULY 6th at 1pm. Come and find out more about vegan food (Lunch for a donation) and philosophy plus vegan organic wine tasting on site at LEDASWAN."

Details at Leda Swan's Site and make sure you RSVP 30th of June in order to reserve your place at the winery.

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Hello to the winter issue of SPICE - the screed on feed, the tome on pome, the beat on meat, the journal on kernels; focalising on localising, writing on biting, looking at cooking, illuminating ruminating; less British than Delicious, less monthly than The Monthly, less dead than the Bulletin, and less Princess Mary than anyone.

Fantastic stuff to get you through winter: Marg Johnson's multivariate - they lemon, they lime, they coconut; donuts by Balthazar - but first you have to eat your Jamie Morgan braised abalone with soba noodles and beef fillet with mushroom croquette; Jude Blereau shops well, early and often; Verity James finds that oranges are not the only [citrus] fruit; Vince Garreffa convinces us that a complete bone-in beef blade cut is a great idea; knives are made like puff pastry; cows get the lazy susan treatment; abalone are looked behind; food miles are countered; the wines of the Frankland Valley are explored; chefs are followed to the Great Southern and much more in all that's tasty, clever and good here. Look for it with the Sports Dietitian and the Docker's arm on the cover.

Subscriptions are here. Back issues are here. Advertising is here. Widely available in newsagencies across Australia and overseas and also at the following stockists.

Prima Fresh Market (Stirling) -new!, Kakulas Sister (Freo), Wine Liasons (Freo),Fresh Provisions (Bicton, Claremont, Mt Lawley), Mondo Di Carne (Inglewood), Princi's (Beaconsfield) [new!] The Home Provedore (Freo, Claremont), O2H (Nedlands), Super IGA (Nedlands) [new!], The Grocer (Nedlands), The Herdsman (Churchlands), Lady Kitchener (Claremont), Black Duck Gourmet Pantry (Albany), Blackwood Kitchen (Bridgetown), Seashack (Esperance), Get Stuffed Olive Company (Gingin), Loose Produce (Como), Margaret Riviera (Cowaramup), Picobello Patisserie (Bicton), Swansea Street Markets (East Vic Park), Boatshed Markets (Cottesloe), Gourmet Centro (Subiaco), Vanilla (South Freo), Angelo Street Markets (South Perth), Food for Me (East Vic Park), Kailis Fishmarkets (Leederville), Clayton's Quality Meats (South Perth) Kitchen Warehouse (Osborne Park), The Beaufort Street Merchant (Mt Lawley), Rising the in the Yeast (Myaree), Love Me Tender Butchery (Palmyra), Crave On (Leederville), Matters of Taste (Bicton), Deli Di Mondo (Attadale), George Street Merchants (East Freo), Malibu Fresh Essentials (Safety Bay), Cape Kitchen (Busselton), Margaret River Venison (Cowaramup), Chilli Hot Kitchenware (Dunsborough), Taste of Balingup (Balingup)

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Join Dr Felicity Newman, lecturer, writer, Jewish mother and cook, and a host of guest speakers to eat, drink, read, write, listen and talk about food.

Education Humanities Common Room, Murdoch University 6pm–8pm
Each session $50 (except First Food, $30). Includes finger food and wine.
$200 for all five.

So you think you have Food Issues? (Wed June 18)
Food is always political. This session will consider contemporary food issues including:
GM food, organic food, fast food Vs slow, sustainable foodways, obesity and hunger.
Guest Speaker: Sally Paulin, Lecturer in Sustainable Development, Murdoch University

Eat my words (Wed June 25)
From Madeleines to matzo balls, food evokes like nothing else, except perhaps music.
Be prepared to eat and write.

Sacred food (Wed July 2)
Food plays a central role in the great sacred rituals and festivities of the world. Explore them.

Oz food (Wed July 9)
What is Australian Cuisine? Indigenous cooking, bush tucker, Mod Oz or fish and chips? And we’ll talk about vegemite, lamingtons, pavlova . . . and what ever happened to chokos?
Guest Speaker: Grant Stone, of ABC TV Can We Help fame.

First food (Sat July 12)
Indigenous Heritage Consultant Noel Nannup will take us on a tour of Wireless Hill and speak about bush foods and their role in Aboriginal life.

Bookings required. Contact felicnew[AT]bigpond[DOT]net[DOT]au or 9331 5134

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