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 explains and tastes 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 demographically diverse northern suburb's produce. Sarah reflects on cakes and Kate speaks with furniture maestro, Jon 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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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)
