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The 2008 Vogue Entertainment +Travel Produce Awards, announcced this month have awarded the ALBANY FARMERS MARKET "BEST FARMERS MARKET" in the country.
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In keeping with the celebration of Hunter Valley Wine & Food Month, on the 1st June, four of the Hunter Valley’s best Chefs will prepare a fabulous lunch consisting of the freshest local produce
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Rutherglen will again be the most exciting place to be on the June 7-8 for Rutherglen Winery Walkabout the renowned wine festival in North East Victoria,
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The gourmet delights of Queensland Granite Belt region will be showcased at Brisbane's South Bank on Sunday May 25 for the first South Bank Growers’ Market.
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Feast your senses at Tastes of Gold Coast – an annual festival of food and wine, showcasing the very best of what the Gold Coast has to offer to be held from 22 August to 9 September.
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Zeta’s Coffee, grown and roasted in the Carool Hills behind Tweed/Coolangatta, has been named as a finalist in the prestigious Vogue Entertaining and Travel Produce Awards for 2008
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The inaugural Granite Belt Food Forum will be held on Wednesday 4 June 2008 9am-5pm at the Queensland College of Wine Tourism, Stanthorpe.
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Find out at The Organic Expo in Sydney on 25-27 July 2008, even bigger and better than ever, and now in it's fourth year. This is Oceania's only organic and green show and so if you're serious about building your business in these industries you should attend
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Someone in Melbourne is looking for a supplier of kabocha or buttercup – it's Japanese winter squash and not to be confused with Jap pumpkins and butternut. EMAIL US
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Winter Seafood and Shiraz (July 11-13); Mundaring Truffle Festival (August 1-3); Spring in the Valley Festival (Oct 11-12)
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The biggest gathering of leading Australian restaurateurs and chefs come together in Melbourne – 26-27th May.
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On the Ridge Cooking School have a newsletter choc-full of information and plans for this year.
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There is still time for NSW food companies to apply to be on the Flavours of NSW stand at Fine Food Australia 2008 in Melbourne from 22-25 September.
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Specialty food and beverage products that have won medals at the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW’s Sydney Royal Fine Food Show will be promoted at the NSW Trade and Investment Centre.
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Companies in the food processing sector can see the latest developments in manufacturing technology at this year’s National Manufacturing Week,
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 AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE FOOD AND WINE FESTIVAL
Eighty of Australia's top chefs, winemakers and food critics will be joined by thousands of foodies in Noosa from May 16 to 18 the 2008 Settler's Cove Celebration of Australian Food and Wine festival.
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Discover 30 of the quirkiest and most historic pubs in Queensland, in the Great Outback Queensland Pubs guide.
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One of Australia's largest cheese events will see two days of cheese competition, celebrations, tastings and family fun in Brisbane on June 14 and 15. The Brisbane Cheese Awards with around 300 cheeses in 10 categories on Sat
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Brisbane chef Graham Waddell, took out the prize for Overall Best Dish at the 2008 PCA South Burnett Regional Culinary Competition.
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The gourmet delights of the Granite Belt Region will be showcased at South Bank on Sunday May 25 at the first South Bank Growers Market.
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In late June Michael Higgins of Huon Bush Retreats is set to release a booklet, The Huon Food Trail, which promotes the fresh produce and growers of the region south of Hobart.
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On this new four day tour you become the distiller. Whisky aficionados and the just plain curious can experience every aspect of the whisky maker’s art.
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If you are looking for a good excuse to visit Tasmania again, the ideal one is Voyages Cradle Mountain Lodge 14th annual 'Tastings at the Top'
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Join The Sydney Institute of Marine Science on April 30, from 6.30pm-9.30pm for an informative evening, a talk and tour of the Marine Station, followed by a light seafood supper and wine.
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Foodies on the Sunshine Coast are advised to put Sunday 13 July in their dairy as the date for the 2008 Eumundi Food Fest.
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Organics has made a major television debut with four farm documentary episodes now showing on SBS. Love's Harvest, run on the SBS program Inside Australia (8pm Wednesday)
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Northern Sydney Institute - Ryde College has launched a new website for a new specialist wine academy, based in Sydney.
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The Sunshine Coast is revving up for a celebration of Australian food and wine, Noosa-style from May 16-18.
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That's the command for visitors attending the Good Food & Wine Show to be held at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre from June 20-22. Celebrity chefs include Gordon Ramsay.
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This Sunday, 27th April, 2008 from 10:30am until 4:30pm, the fabulous Warners Bay Wine & Food Fair featuring Hunter Uncorked, will be held on the foreshore of the picturesque Lake Macquarie.
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Producers of McLaren Vale, SA, invite visitors to join a Shared Table for 20 every Sunday. The Long Table Lunches overlooking the vines feature menus based on the best produce of the bountiful Fleurieu region
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Learn how to make your own cheese. Saturday 26 April, from noon- 3pm, – soft, hard, blue, cow and goat cheeses. Find out how to select cheese and which wines match.
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Pronto Fine Foods Merchants, Warrnambool, has won the Retail Division of the Powercor Great South Coast Regional Business Awards topping business in all the region's six shires.
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Two new ‘cool’ delights are on offer this year for the NSW Southern Highlands' third annual Cool Flavours from June 7-9.
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Culinary tourism is the latest initiative to be dished up by Granite Belt Wine & Tourism Inc.
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News from the north shows many things planned for this year in food and wine.
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Experience a little piece of heaven at The Rocks Aroma Festival on Sunday 6 July
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If you are in Queensland in August try to make it to the South Burnett region for the Kingaroy Peanut Festival on August 2
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The Tasmanian Pinot Noir Showcase in Launceston on May 24, 2-5pm will allow wine-lovers to taste over 50 Tasmanian Pinot Noirs from 25 producers.
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The Food Media Club Australia’s 2008 Australian Food Media Award are inviting the public to contribute to recognising the best food communicator in the land with a new LifeStyle Food Channel People’s Choice Award.
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All 40 chefs participating in Taste of London will be competing for the coveted title of “Green Fingers” - an award given to the chef with the biggest and best produce.
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Noosa's River House Restaurant, in conjunction with Vogue, Entertaining and Travel is hosting two very special dinners which will only feature produce grown within 50km of Noosa.
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Keen cooks can now spend 20 hours in one week working alongside acclaimed Gold Coast chef Meyjitte Boughenout who won two Michelin Stars.
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Over 100 Australian businesses will showcase their wares to major international buyers at South East Asia’s largest food and hospitality trade event–Food and Hotel Asia 2008 (FHA)–to be held in Singapore next week (April 22-25).
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The Shoalhaven Coast Wine Festival (NSW) on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend (7th-9th June) will provide an opportunity for visitors to taste many local wines.
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The new Beechworth Honey Experience in north-east Victoria celebrates the region’s sweetest product – honey.
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Western Australia’s most remote microbrewery, Matso’s Broome Brewery, has picked up a swag of medals for their hand crafted lagers and ales at the Australian International Beer Awards.
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Visitors to Western Australia will now be able to get a real taste of the West with the launch of Grands Vins Mercure.
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Discover the hidden wine and gourmet treasures of Western Australia’s wine regions at ‘The Trail’, a new website
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The Margaret River Wine Region Festival from May 2-4 is a three day event in celebration of the end of vintage,
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 World class sportspeople like Australian cricketers, Tour de France cyclists and professional tennis players all agree on one thing; if you are looking for an energy boost, reach for a banana.
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Sydney suburbs Balmain and Rozelle’s showcase the very best in local, produce, fine dining, drinking and FOOD in Balmain Rozelle Food Week -21-27 April
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Savour New Zealand deserves a mention. What began as a bi-annual celebration of the country’s best produce and cooking expertise, has become an annual occasion (May 1-4)
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Sunshine Coast foodies are eating up the free cooking classes hosted by chef Peter Wolfe at The Original Eumundi Markets
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Apples, just got a new member of the family! Jazz™ is Australia’s newest apple variety with a catchy name. Introduced to Australian growers by Montague Fresh.
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An innovative program launched in the Southern Highlands last week by Minister for Tourism Matt Brown, will see local residents become tourism ambassadors for the region.
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Autumn 2008 marks the first issue of Azure, one of the loveliest regional magazines around. This issue's subject matter is the breathtaking Whitsundays on Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.
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South Australia’s Barossa Valley has made the New York Times’ list of 53 “must-see” destinations for 2008.
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Sunshine Coast restaurant icon, Andrew Strange, has become the new Executive Chef at the Buderim Ginger Factory Ginger Cafe.
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The ‘ginger lover’s paradise’ is now even more enticing following the opening of the O’Reilly’s Canungra Valley Vineyards Cellar Door at Yandina’s Ginger Factory. . .
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THE BIG RED WINE book by multi-award winning writer Campbell Mattinson, is the only book in Australia entirely devoted to red wines.
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Food and wine lovers will be delighted to learn of the return of Brisbane’s popular Masterclass Weekend on July 26-27 featuring celebrated international and Australian chefs and winemakers.
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Of course it's best to visit the regions and taste cheese in its home location BUT if you are unable to leave Sydney, help is at hand! The GPO Cheese and Wine Room has recently reopened after renovations. There are at least 100 cheeses for sale and 25 or more on the tasting menu.
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Following Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s historic visit to Washington this week, Queensland-based Pure Blue Meats will now exclusively supply Australian Wagyu to Blair House, Washington’s official state guest house.
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The Hunter Valley, NSW, has declared the entire month of May open to visitors who can feast on am impressive range of exciting activities.
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Tourism NSW is inviting the tourism industry to be part of a promotion to capitalise on the thousands of visitors who will come to NSW during World Youth Day 2008, the biggest event to be held in Australia.
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Tastings at the Top, a gourmet extravaganza for food and wine lovers will be held from from June 21 to 23, against the backdrop of Tasmania's stunning Cradle Mountain,
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On 25th May 2008 artist Ken Done and celebrity chef John Meredith will be guests at the inaugural ‘Clarence Valley Gate to Plate’
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Those who would like to be part of the ‘REGIONAL FLAVOURS OF NEW SOUTH WALES’ STAND FINE FOOD AUSTRALIA 2008, at the Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre, (22 - 25 September) – the closing date for applications is March 20, 2008.
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After two years of the hugely successful Sydney restaurant show, this year Restaurant 08 happens in Melbourne at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre from 26-27 May 2008.
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 Australian Festival of Chamber Music will open with the food and music event, Chefs in the North, July 3. Merge fine food, wine and music under on the lawns of Jupiters Townsville.
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CALLING ALL YOUNG CHEFS AND WAITERS
The Lexus Appetite for Excellence Young Chef and Lexus Young Waiter awards, open to those aged 30 and under, are billed as the ultimate competition for young hospitality professionals. Applications close Friday April 4, and finalists will be announced May 26, www.youngchef.com.au
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