The Herdsman Food Expo is on this weekend (July 4th and 5th). Follow the drums! (or details on their website their website.)

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I've already got an exhaustive collection but if you're quick, there's a very nice set of splades, for sale down at the Freo Good Sammys on High Street.

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We have some copies of Yoke Mardewi's wild sourdough to be won. The book is an exhaustive and informative guide to sourdough breadmaking. It covers starters, breads - sweet and savoury, cakes, pizza bases, wheat free breads and a few extra treats to boot.

To win a copy, just tell us the three ingredients of sourdough bread.

UPDATE! The sourdough books have been won. Thanks to those who wrote in!

We're also giving away double sets of ex-cop and private investigator Terry McLernon's books, The Fifth Estate and If the Hat Fits, Wear It. Chock full of tales on dirty deeds and corporate corruption in the 80s.

Just tell us which high profile Western Australian from the 1980s you would have liked to have seen carted around the Subi Oval in a cage at the 1987 WAFL Grand Final and had fruit chucked at them by schoolchildren and why.

Email us at competition [at] spicemagazine.com.au
[Australian residents only] [First in best served]

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Our current Winter SPICE features a great how-to guide and recipes on making stuffed pasta. What you need is our equally great how-to on making fresh pasta from issue 14. If you don't have a copy, you can download a PDF.

Or, if you're a tactile soul, back issues are here.

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Subscribe before 30 August to be in the draw to win one of two fry pan and food lover's pack. Each winner will receive:
A Calphalon Chefs pan, to master culinary arts with,
An annual subscription to The Matters of Taste Cooking Club, an online subscription to this Perth based food lovers site gives you culinary inspiration, recipes, kitchen skills and techniques, glossaries, and news, weekly updates and a direct link to chefs.
and A Japanese cuisine cooking class at The Matters of Taste Cooking School.
You'll learn to cook, Chawanmushi, Beef Bento Box, Nihon Soba with Duck and Soy Milk Jelly with Fujis.

(note: this offer has been put together by Spice Publishing, Matters of Taste and Calphalon are not affiliated)

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Spice issue 15 is out now. With a mullet on the top and Chris Cheong of Must Margaret River underneath, there's 80 pages of good inside.

A look at the 80s; single malt whisky matched with aged beef by the chefs from Must MR and the The Old Brewery Restaurant; the hunt for the indigenous carbohydrate; a great run down on local winter beers from microbreweries up; our Swan Valley fortifieds are tasted next to Victoria's Rutherglen; Sophie Zalokar's seasonal menu; a look at gluten-free food in WA; the last of the Swan River fishermen; stuffed pasta; seasonal fruit and veg; restaurant reviews; getting involved in agricultural shows; and, as always. much much more

Subscriptions are here. Back issues are here. Advertising is here. Available in all good newsagencies across Australia and overseas and also at the following stockists after the link:

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We're Radio National tragics here and let out a collective woohoo when we heard an interviewee, Peter McClelland, explain his "cheese change" from Perth to Albany as;
"I happened to pick up this local magazine called Spice, it's a gourmet foodie magazine, and I was reading an article about the Albany Farmers Market and I gave them a call to organise to be introduced to some of the producers."

You can listen to the whole Life Matters episode here (and go woohoo at the appropriate point).

This issue's cheesy goodness is Ringwould Goats Cheese - Albany cheesemakers and successors to the Kervella goat stock.

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To be in the running to win 20 litres of Fini extra virgin olive oil simply take out a subscription to SPICE between 1 March and 30 May 2009.

The Winner of the Air Mauritius travel and holiday at Constance Le Prince Maurice was C Armstrong.

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It's all food all March in the City as the City of Perth offers some compelling reasons to go and have a good look at its favourite eateries and drinking establishments.
Cooking, dining, competitions, chefs and mouth-watering experiences are all on offer so for more information on City Food and Wine month events and activities
visit: www.perth.wa.gov.au/foodandwine or contact 9461 3368.

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Long time readers, familiar with our red and golden hued Autumn spines, will be surprised to find it's a pistachio green this time round. Gracing the cover is maker of heavenly sweet treats, Rochelle Adonis. On the inside, we sample the richly diverse and growing Western Australian olive oil industry and show you how to make pasta from scratch and talk to the people who'll make it for you if you can't be bothered because you've had an especially long day at work. Wine tasting from Geographe, beer notes from Duckstein, and restaurant reviews from the city. Season a frying pan as easily as you might a slightly bland bowl of soup. Plant some root vegetables, cook kangaroo, and visit the Geographe region secure in the knowledge you'll know where to go. Lattes in the laneways and wine in the street. Stunning recipes from local chefs Graeme Shapiro, Stephen Clarke and Ben Andrijasevich. And more...

Subscriptions are here. Back issues are here. Advertising is here. Available in all good newsagencies across Australia and overseas and also at the following stockists after the link:

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