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]

Posted by anthony at 11:23 AM | Permalink

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)

1. Information on how to enter and prizes form part of conditions of entry. Enter as many times as you wish, but each entry must constitute a fully paid subscription. Entries not completed in accordance with these terms and conditions are ineligible. 2. Entry is open to anybody over the age of 18 years except employees of Spice Publishing Pty Ltd, Calphalon and Matters of Taste, and their immediate families. 3. The winner will be drawn at random from all subscriptions received and paid for (including any relevant clearance period) between 1 June, 2009 and 5pm on 30 August 2009. 4. There are two prizes - each prize includes one Calphalon Chef's fry pan, an annual subscription to the Matters of Taste Cooking Club and a Japanese Cuisine cooking class. Prizes are not transferable or redeemable for cash. 5. The draw will take place at the offices of Spice Publishing Pty Ltd, Shop 9, The Biscuit Factory, 330 South Terrace, South Fremantle WA 6162. 6. No correspondence will be entered into. 7. Winners will be notified by phone and/or mail and their names published on the Spice Magazine website. 8. All entries become the property of Spice Publishing Pty Ltd ACN 114 002 050. The entries may be entered into a database for future promotional, marketing and publicity purposes, unless otherwise stated by the entrant. 9. The prize (or vouchers) will be posted or delivered to a street address within Australia as agreed with the winner. 10. Spice Publishing Pty Ltd shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever suffered, including but not limited to direct or consequential loss, or personal injury suffered or sustained during the course of prize winning trips or in connection with any prize.
The winner of the 20 litres of Fini Extra Virgin Olive Oil was Stephanie Laurie

Posted by kate at 2:19 PM | Permalink

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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