Spice Magazine

SPICE 18 Autumn 10

2010-03-08T15:21:44Z

Menacing us on the cover with the ferocious local freshwater crustacean, marron, is Bistro Felix chef Helen Pratt. Helen's responsible for our French-flavoured but local Seasonal Menu using local veal, marron, blueberries, scallops and some purslane that she purloined from her home.

If you're not familiar with our Seasonal Menu, we take local produce featured in stories in the issue and ask a local chef to create a menu in their own style. So we follow the ingredients back to the dairy farmer behind humanely raised White Rocks veal, the Denmark farmers taking on the challenges of growing blueberries, a local marron expert on optimal marron farming, and Swan Valley goat farmers.

A great sweep of chefs and their work in Autumn - Matt Stone of Greenhouse, Silas Masih of Greenpool, Xavier Poupel of Stonebarn Lodge, Greg Peppall of Lime 303, Richard Spencer at Beaufort Street Merchant, Chris Cheong at Must MR, Kevin Ryan of The Lake House, and Jihad and Chris Moussallem of The Prophet. Have your way with goats curd, marron, figs and raspberries, trout, goats cheese souffle, prawns, blueberries, lemon and polenta, and green beans.

Lovely work from Vince with veal, Theo with Snapper, Verity with seasonal veg, Marg with rolling, and Sabrina with growing left-of-centre veges. Jason does a lovely job with WA's unusual wine-varietals that'll have you wowing them at the wine store. Isobel goes to BBQ school, Jennifer goes to kid-friendly restaurants, Matt goes all post-modern, and Anthony looks at the beer that the deomgraphically diverse northern suburb's produce. Sarah relects on cakes and Kate speaks with furniture maestro, John Goulder.

Finally, an extensive guide to wine and food travel in Denmark and Albany's Patrick McSweeney of the Naked Bean and Kester and Amanda Solomon of Liberté. And we've even upped the mag size by another 8 pages. Enjoy!

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Available at all good newsagencies (and ask if they don't) as well as selected stockists around the state [see beneath the fold]

]]> Barker & Hale (Cottesloe, Floreat)
Bento Box (Denmark)
Big Fish Direct (Fremantle)
Billabong Brewing (Myaree)
Blackwood Kitchen (Bridgetown)
Black Duck Gourmet Pantry (Albany)
Boatshed Fresh Food (Cottesloe)
Cape Kitchen (Busselton)
Clayton's Quality Meats (South Perth)
Fancy Pantry (Attadale)
Food for Me (East Victoria Park)
Frank's Gourmet Meats (South Freo)
Fresh Provisions (Bicton, Claremont, Mt Lawley)
George Street Merchants (East Fremantle)
Gourmet Centro (Myaree)
Kakulas Sister Grocer (Fremantle)
Kitchen Warehouse (Osborne Park, Myaree)
Liquorice Gourmet Foods (Claremont, Mt Hawthorn)
Loose Produce (Como)
Love Me Tender Butchery (Palmyra)
Malibu Fresh Essentials (Safety Bay)
Margaret Riviera (Cowaramup)
Margaret River Providore (Margaret River)
Market Tastes of WA (Mt Claremont)
Matters of Taste (Bicton)
Mill Point Fresh Food Market (South Perth)
Mondo Di Carne (Inglewood)
Narrogin Nursery and Café (Narrogin)
O2H (Nedlands)
Pemberton Wine Centre(Pemberton)
Prima Fresh Market (Stirling)
Princi's at Romano's (Beaconsfield)
Rising the in the Yeast (Myaree)
Rumps Gourmet Butchery (Mandurah)
Sisters Super IGA (Joondalup)
Swansea Street Markets (East Vic Park)
Taste of Balingup (Balingup)
The COOK/Book (Highgate)
The Fruit Basket (Mt Pleasant)
The Good Olive (Margaret River)
The Good Store (Victoria Park)
The Grocer (Nedlands),
The Herdsman (Churchlands)
The Home Provedore (Freo, Claremont)
The Naked Butcher (Mundaring)
The Source Real Food Store (Denmark)
Vanilla Gifts and Homewares (South Fremantle)
The Wine Deli (Yallingup)
Western Farmers Market (Fremantle)

Taste of WA Great Southern, Pemberton, Manjimup & Blackwood Valley Regional Wine Tasting

2010-03-08T07:47:29Z

11 March 2010
The first in the series of Taste of WA events for 2010!
The wine tasting includes some of the best wines from the Great Southern, Pemberton, Manjimup and Blackwood Valley with delicious canapés to accompany them.

Taste of WA Great Southern, Pemberton, Manjimup & Blackwood Valley Regional Wine Tasting
Matilda Bay Restaurant, Crawley
5.30pm - 8.00pm
Thursday 11 March 2010

Go to the The Wine Industry Association of Western Australia for details and registration or download a registration form.

An Editor Speaks [at UWA Extension]

2010-03-03T02:13:37Z

Editorials not nearly long enough?
As part of the Autumn School 2010, I'm lucky enough to be able to give a talk on food writing, running a food magazine, and the myriad of opportunities available in this modern age to find your voice in food.
About an hour of me waffling on, which I swear will be engaging, thoughtful, informative and, if the couple of opening jokes go well, will include a few laughs. There'll also be a Q&A session.

EATING WORDS
Anthony Georgeff, SPICE Magazine
Thursday 25 Mar 7pm-8.30pm $39

Go to the UWA Extension Website for details and bookings or download a brochure. A bevy of other food and writing courses available over the season so go have a good look.

The Butcher's Picnic

2010-02-20T09:58:59Z

As long time admirers of their craft, we're pretty excited about this. SPICE is proud to get behind this year's Butcher's Picnic in Northbridge.

The Butcher's Picnic is a day to celebrate the skilled saucy talking masters of meat and craftsmen of cuts, butchers. Heaps of activities for all the family with sausage making demonstrations and blind-tasting competitions. Watch the battles as apprentice butcher's race the clock to bone a leg of lamb and home-chefs have at it in a hogget cook-off. This year sees butchers from around the state vie for the Beef Burger Crown and some of WAs best produce there for the tasting. It all happens in the new new Northbridge Piazza on Sunday the 28th of March.

Stay tuned for updates!

10am-3pm, Sunday 28 March 2010
Northbridge Piazza - cnr Lake and James Streets [map]
All enquiries to Vince Garreffa: 0411881193 email: princeofflesh AT mondo.net.au

Change of fax number

2010-02-02T05:35:16Z

It's now +61 8 6219 5338 so update your little black books.

Yes I know this is a pretty boring announcement so here's a photo of Denmark. We'll be covering the region in our Autumn issue.

Taste Great Southern 2010

2010-01-29T04:37:49Z

Events have been finalised for Taste Great Southern - a fortnight of events that take place across the food and wine rich Denmark, Albany and Mt Barker region. It's a tremendous combination of tastes, eating, drinking and learning. Great to see SPICE writers Vince Garreffa and Verity James involved too.

Too much to mention in one post but the have a look and the Events Schedule PDF and get planning.

Slow Food Dinner in Denmark

2010-01-18T02:53:19Z

Coming up at Denmark's Castelli wines is a Slow Food wood-fired oven cooked dinner by Vincenzo Velletri
Friday 26th February at 6.30 pm. Cost is $90 ($80 for Slow Food members) per head for dinner and wine. Bookings and enquiries -l Melissa Taylor on 98481700

SPICE is currently scouring Denmark for our Autumn '10 guide to the area.

Festive Greetings

2009-12-31T06:15:42Z

Hope you're having a lovely break and eating well. Many thanks for your support in 2009 and best wishes for 2010 from us here at SPICE

No, they're nothing to do with us

2009-12-16T04:53:49Z

Since a few people have asked, no we don't have anything to do with the recently re-badged hospitality industry giveaway mag from Sydney, 'Spice News'.

In spite of the eerily familiar masthead, we remain confident that readers will be able to appreciate the difference that five years of building a brand a quality mgazine can bring.

If you were confused by the two, we'd be happy to hear from you - just shoot us an email or give us a call.

SPICE 17 Summer 09

2009-12-11T07:03:28Z

It's out and gracing the soothingly pink cover is Fremantle chef Stefan Amentanto - who's created our seasonal menu. We're all very happy with the issue and the delicately latticed bits of wisdom running through the mag like a nicely marbled bit of steak.
Much on Fremantle, much on Carnarvon, how to make your own ice-cream and keep Mr Whippy off the streets, putting meat back on the BBQ, what to do with fish, suburban bars, new restaurants, fancy burger joints, Great Southern Reislings, cold and refreshing local kolsch, planting strawberries, beautiful garlic, financialisation of food, and more ... or MOAR as my daughter would say.

And now would also be a time to suggest that you treat yourself and a loved one to a subscription with our stunning special offer of get one subscription and get another one for half price. Go to our subscriptions page.

Available at all good newsagencies and ask if they don't as well as selected stockists around the state [see beneath the fold]

2009 Manjimup Cherry Festival

2009-12-10T04:38:11Z

Sat 12 and Sun 13 December

The Southern Forests region’s 2009 Manjimup Cherry Festival is on will also feature ‘Tastes of the Southern Forests Avenue’. Headlining the Avenue are chefs Peter Manifis and Gabriel Zahra, presenting the Southern Forests abundant produce – marron, truffles, trout, lamb, beef, cheese, nuts, wine, cherries to name a few. Should be a tremendous celebration of food in a region that's going leaps and bounds.

www.cherryfestival.com.au/

Soon! Soon!

2009-12-02T06:17:54Z

In a bit of a bind(er) at the moment with the mags waiting to be bound at one of the two binders in Perth during a bust time of the year. Will be back this week and then out in the post and into the shops - you'll love it!

Western Australian Biodynamic Festival

2009-11-20T03:40:36Z

It's Western Australian Biodynamic Festival at High Vale, Pickering Brook, this Sunday (22 Nov).

The festival runs from 10am to 4pm at High Vale Orchard, 35 Merivale Road. Our friends at Slow Food will be there making and selling wood-fired pizza and Pickering Brook's own Champion roasted-mushrooms to raise funds for next year's Western Australian Terra Madre delegation and thier school kitchen garden project, ‘Food with latitude’, launched by Carlo Petrini in Perth last month [see SPICE 17].

There will be orchard tours, tree-pruning demonstrations, talks at 11:15am and 2:15pm by Williams farmer and 2006 Terra Madre delegate William Newton-Wordsworth on 'social responsibility and agriculture: contradiction or necessity?', and cooking demonstrations by chef Nico Moretti. [see 15]

And, of course plenty of things for the kids and lots of produce.

CowTown Focus Event

2009-11-12T05:07:36Z

If you're heading down South this weekend (and half your luck if you are - we'll be working all night putting Summer SPICE together, not that we're complaining mind) be sure to drop in at Cowaramup on Saturday to see the best of the community.

CowTown Focus, Pioneer Park, Cowaramup.
14th November 2009, 10am-8pm

· Wines . Ales . Local Produce . Live Music . Markets . Kids Games . More!
· Kids Poster Comp: create a poster, bring on the day to win

Gates open: 10am. Tasting Lounge 12-5pm. Live Acts 4pm-8pm
Adults $5 entry, Kids $2
Call Katie Earl 0448897717 for more information.

2010 Western Australian Barista Championships

2009-11-06T09:59:11Z

... are on this weekend. The general public (that's you) are encouraged to come along to support and taste some really nicely made coffees. Details and map here and you can have a look at the poster here.