tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86515900724542865572024-03-12T20:30:22.273-07:00JENNIFER SUSANTO-LEE: PUBLISHED WORKPublished articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-9282079316460258302016-07-11T01:02:00.001-07:002016-07-11T01:02:24.334-07:00Scoop Magazine, August 2016<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping into Little Way on a blindingly hot summer’s day is
not unlike discovering a verdant oasis in the searing desert. Despite being a
heritage building, the space is contemporary and a serious breath of fresh air,
with lots of indoor and alfresco areas to choose from. Décor is predominantly white,
with hits of lush green in the form of cushions, menus and plant-life. On the
day we visit, the doors are open but the air-con is cranked, giving this haven
a cool, refreshing almost-outside-but-not-quite vibe. As you might expect from
a Western suburbs eatery, the clientele is local and gentrified, with all the
generations represented during our visit. The 120-seater is still only six
weeks young, but is already packing them in. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The breakfast menu is as fresh and uncluttered as the surroundings,
with a range of light dishes that steer away from the usual run-of-the-mill
greasy spoon offerings. A generous, chunky granola proves to be a dead-set
winner. Lightly toasted and made in-house, the dish is a morerish combo of pecans,
almond flakes, oats and maple syrup, with the nuts giving it a warm, earthy
flavour. <span> </span>Topped with berries, edible
flowers, mint (grown in the restaurant’s burgeoning herb garden) and lashings of
Greek yoghurt, it’s served with a side of local honey and milk. Too good<span> </span>– we decide we could eat this every day.<span> </span>A zingy freshly-pressed juice of orange,
carrot, lemon and ginger balances things out just right. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A peek at the modern Mediterranean lunch and dinner menu has
us salivating, with a selection of small share plates, pizza and nicely-priced
mains included in the mix. Crispy pork belly with pear ricotta and baby carrots?
We’re in. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Little Way is fully-licensed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">161 Broadway, Nedlands</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><span>Fancy having
dinner with one of the most recognised chefs in the world? Or perhaps cruising
our fair shores on a luxury boat is more your speed. When it comes to lavish
events, the sky’s pretty much the limit at this year’s Margaret River Gourmet
Escape.</span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One
of the most anticipated events across the three-day festival. The bad boy
himself, Marco Pierre White, will host a Q&A session over dinner at Vasse
Felix winery together with his former chef protégés, Jock Zonfrillo, Richard
Turner and Spencer Patrick. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marco’s boys
will re-create the signature dishes they once produced under the iconic chef,
who apparently demanded nothing less than military precision. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“I’m
really looking forward to meeting up with some of my ex boys, who are doing a
special dinner for me,” says Marco Pierre White.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“But I’m excited about many things. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I’m excited about going to Margaret River and
seeing what goes on there. My friend George Calombaris always speaks about
Margaret River with such affection, and he tells me it’s the finest and
greatest food event on earth. I’ll be very busy, which is good because I like
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Felix, Caves Road (Cnr Tom Cullity Drive), Margaret River </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span> </span></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Spanking new to this year’s festival program
line-up, Dining on the Jetty will have guests feasting on seafood cooked by
chef legend Rick Stein. Not only that, they’ll be seated at the end of Busselton
Jetty, the longest wooden jetty in the Southern Hemisphere. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Transport to the dining marquee at the end of
the jetty will be courtesy of the Kimberley Quest II. Or, if you’re so
inclined, you can wear your flats and leg it. </span></span>
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held on Friday and Saturday evenings</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Where: Busselton
Jetty, Busselton Beachfront, Busselton</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span></i></span></div>
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Kimberley Quest II, with Winning Appliances</span></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Join two kitchen kings from foodie institution, Stokehouse,
aboard the Kimberley Quest II. Set sail for an afternoon of foodie
deliciousness with Oliver Gould (head chef, Stokehouse Melbourne) and Richard
Ousby (head chef, Stokehouse Brisbane) as they showcase their signature style using
local produce. Guests will feast on canapés and wines from the Margaret River region
as the Kimberley Quest II cruises the shores of Cape Naturaliste.</span></span>
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Sunday 22 November, 12pm</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span></i></span><br />
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Pro-fisherman's Boat Ramp, Quindalup (Opposite McDermott Street), Dunsborough</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></i></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span></i></span></div>
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Cabernet Celebration at Cape Mentelle: Long Lunch with the World’s Best</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">A celebration
of the world’s finest cabernets. The benchmark event begins with a tasting of twenty
esteemed cabernets from acclaimed international wine regions, and finishes off with
a sumptuous long lunch in the winery’s gardens, ably prepared by David Thompson
(ranked number 22 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants List).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The 2012 year was a stunning vintage, to be
introduced by special guest Lisa Perrotti Brown (wine critic, Robert Parker’s
Wine Advocate). Showcasing wines from the world’s finest cabernet-producing
regions (including Château Lafite Rothschild, Château Cos d’Estournel, Château
La Mission Haut Brion, Napa Valley, Tuscany and Margaret River), it’s one not
to miss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">When: Friday, 20
November, 10am-4pm</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Where: Cape Mentelle
Vineyards, 331 Wallcliffe Road, Margaret River </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">A truly decadent evening. Set in the barrel room of
Woodlands Winery, enjoy a menu designed and prepped by one of Australia’s
masters of contemporary cuisine, Mark Best (Marque Restaurant, Sydney) alongside
Daniel Fisher (Print Hall, Perth). The dinner will focus on the very best local
and national produce, with accompanying wines provided by Woodlands. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">When: Saturday, 21 November, 6.30pm</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span></i></span></span><br />
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3948 Caves Road, Wilyabrup </span></span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span></i></span></div>
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blessed to have the top chefs of no less than six restaurants on this year’s World’s
50 Best Restaurants list gracing the event. Best thing? You’ll be able to see
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number two, and is a master at dragging historic British dishes into the 21<sup>st</sup>
century. After dining at The Fat Duck in 1999 left a lasting impression on him,
Ashley took up work at a nearby farm picking watercress until a position at the
prestigious restaurant became available. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that’s dedication.</span></span></div>
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top spot on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants this year. Before hitting his straps as
a culinary genius, Gaggan performed as a drummer with local rock bands in
India. He went on to become the first Indian intern to work at the legendary Eli
Bulli.</span></span></div>
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City) </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></b></span></div>
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50 Best Restaurants list </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></div>
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his Mexican roots, Enrique did much of his training in New York. He’s a master
at reinventing traditional Mexican fare, with menu items including powdered
ants and grasshopper salsa. Enrique has just opened a restaurant, Cosme, in
Manhattan to rave reviews.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Number 22 on World’s 50
Best Restaurants list </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></span></div>
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for himself as one of the best Thai chefs in the world. When not banging the
pots and pans, he can be found broadcasting or writing books. David scored the
first-ever Michelin star for Thai cuisine at his London branch of nahm.</span></span></div>
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for its borsch thanks to Vladimir’s grandma’s secret ingredient of crucian
carps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, the boy wonder has
just clinched the gong for highest new entry at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants
awards. Fun fact – prior to becoming a chef, he dreamed of being an astronaut. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-synthesis: weight style; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Number 42 on World’s 50
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forager extraordinaire, and draws on eighteen preparations out of a massive 300
on constant rotation at the restaurant. Not only that, but he has a degree in
chemical engineering, and works as a consultant for research teams and other
food-related projects. When not busy trailblazing, he hosts his own TV show in
Chile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> </b></span>When it comes to public holidays, most people are pretty
darned happy. A day off work, time to chill or whoop it up – what’s not to
like? These days, if you ask a restaurateur what they think of public holidays,
you’re more than likely to get a chilly response. That’s due to the fact that
thanks to penalty rates on public holidays, they are paying through the nose
for staff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take Australia Day, for example. .Jacki O’Hara from The
Peasant Table in Mt Hawthorn recently went public on exorbitant penalty rates,
revealing it would cost her $900 extra in staff wages to open that day, and that
she would struggle to break even. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Meanwhile, restaurateur-about-town Scott Taylor says that
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I know that in many well-run hospitality businesses,
38 per cent of revenue goes to labour costs, while in some businesses, it’s 50
per cent. So in other words, $5 every out of every $10 goes to labour,” says
Scott.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“When a public holiday comes around, if a casual chef
wants work, the existing industrial relations laws mean I’d have to pay $54.40
an hour for them – and my answer will be ‘sorry, you’re not working’. The young
casual guys who want to work on public holidays can’t, because industrial
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">So what’s it all about then? Currently, there is
a massive debate going on around the country regarding industrial relations and
workplace laws, including penalty rates. Shortly, it will all go under the
microscope in a review held by the Productivity Commission in a quest to reboot
the entire industrial relations system. The Restaurant and Catering
Association, which has tabled a submission for the review, is pushing for penalty
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“On those days, we staff up with our salary staff and
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">WA Premier Colin Barnett has recently stated that penalty rates should remain, but admitted they should be made more realistic in order to encourage employment in the hospitality industry. The Australian Hotels Association's Bradley Woods has said he would also fight outdated penalty rates. </span></span></div>
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Published articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-35860315732420793292015-03-02T19:30:00.000-08:002015-04-09T21:26:25.093-07:00The West Australian Newspaper - January 2015<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>image courtesy Katie Joy's Free-range Eggs</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The world of free-range can be a fickle place. Animal-loving
customers yearn to embrace it, yet their definition of what constitutes ‘free-range’
is often vastly different to the stance taken by politicians, producers and supermarkets.
Take eggs, for example. National free-range egg laws currently don’t exist in
Australia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Western Australia, Greens
MP Lynne MacLaren is fighting to re-introduce her Free-Range Labelling Bill (originally
introduced in 2013) to the Senate this year. Over east, the NSW Fair Trading
Minister, Matthew Mason-Cox, is due to have a draft national standard for
free-range considered, apparently at the next Minister’s forum in April. The
slow wheels of bureaucracy and the cut and thrust of profit margins can often
get in the way of what the customer wants, and what is best for the animal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most people who buy free-range eggs pay a premium,
envisaging happy hens pecking their way across lush green fields. After all, that’s
what it shows on the packaging, right? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
reality, when it comes to free-range eggs (particularly those sold by supermarket
chains), it is a veritable minefield for the consumer. Coles has a
recommendation for their free-range eggs of 10,000 hens per hectare – anything
smaller, they say, is commercially unviable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The recommendation by the CSIRO and animal welfare groups for stocking
densities is 1,500 birds per hectare. Western Australia’s largest ‘free-range’
egg producer, Snowdale Holdings (which runs Swan Valley Egg Farm and Eggs by
Ellah), is currently locked in a court battle with the ACCC amidst allegations
of falsely labelling its eggs free-range. The case is due to be heard in the
Federal Court this April. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All is not lost, however. There are plenty of dedicated, hardworking
producers out there who are passionate about free-range, with Margaret River
Free-range Eggs being one of them. Its feisty owner, Jan Harwood, is chairwoman
of the Free-range Egg Association. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“In Australia, the Australian Egg Corporation Limited and
larger supermarkets have said that the free-range standards we used to operate
under aren’t sustainable anymore, and we can’t produce enough eggs for the
growing free-range market. Well, you can, because they’re doing it overseas on
the same standards,” says Jan. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“They are producing enough eggs because they’re doing it
slowly and organically. If countries like England and Denmark, who have less
space than us, can do it on 1,500 hens per hectare, then why can’t we? It’s all
about price manipulation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“So this is where it gets down to cheap food. If you want to
produce a free-range egg at the same price as a caged egg, then something’s got
to give. Happily, these days people are walking the talk, and are starting to
understand that good food costs more money.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When
it comes to local free-range chicken, it’s hard to go past Mt Barker. The company
juggernaut, based in the Great Southern, has eight farms that are run by either
Mt Barker Chicken or local farmers, with each farm containing several chicken
coops that have a central point for eating and drinking. The number of birds
vary, but according to Graham Laitt, the managing director of Mt Barker’s
umbrella company, Milne Agrigroup, their newest farm at Fox River has around
20,000 birds at any one time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Most
of our farms are part of diverse family farming operations, so the area
available to the MBC farms is not limited. The coops are up to two hundred
metres apart, providing the largest free-range area of any farms in Western
Australia.,” says Graham..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The number of birds per farm
varies widely. It very much depends on the layout and facilities on the farm,
as well as the management available.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According
to Graham, once the hens are feathered (at around twenty-one days old), they
leave the coops to range outside all day until they are brought in at night to
protect them from foxes. The farms aren’t open to the public, but chicken
webcams will soon be set up at their Fox River farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Happily, free-range pork is increasingly becoming the norm
for many people. As with the egg industry, there is no one standard, but a
general free-range guideline is that all pigs need to be outside from birth to
death, with plenty of space to graze and forage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“There are a number of growers who call their pigs
free-range but they are, in fact, free-range-bred,” says Annie Kavanagh from
Spencers Brook Farm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“This means
the sows are outside having their piglets, but when the piglets are a few weeks
old, they are weaned and moved into eco shelters, where they spend the rest of their
lives before slaughter at around five months old.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">According
to Annie, there is currently no legislation which differentiates between free-range
and free-range-bred, with the customer paying more for free-range without
knowing whether it’s legit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“There
needs to be national labelling brought in with a standard for free-range.
However any attempt to bring in a certification system will inevitably lead to
the same kind of fierce debate currently being seen in the egg industry, where
the larger players are pushing for higher stocking densities.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FREE-RANGE
PRODUCERS</u></b></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Free-range Eggs:</i></b></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cackleberries Demeter
Biodynamic Free-range Eggs </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in</span>: east of
Donnybrook</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from:</span> Absolutely Organic; Organic on Charles; Manning Farmers Market (at
Redtail Organic Meat stall); Peaches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to the
public: </span>Yes (by appointment only)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How many hens: </span>28
hens per hectare (rotated around paddock in mobile accommodation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Katie Joy’s Free-range
Eggs</b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in</span>: Kojonup
(towards Albany)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from:</span> For stockists, head to their Facebook page</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to the
public: </span>In the pipeline</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How many hens: </span>900
hens per hectare (pastures are rotated)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Laterite Ridge
Free-range (also free-range pork)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in: </span>York</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from: </span>Perth City Farmers; York IGA; The Local Grocer (online)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to public: </span>No</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How many hens: </span>under
500 hens per hectare</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Manavi Eggs (new)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in</span>: Watheroo
(near Gingin)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from:</span> <span class="5yl5">The Lettuce Shop; small home delivery service in
northern suburbs, and in the Moora, Dalwallinu area</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to the
public:</span> No</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How many hens: </span>125
hens per hectare (rotated around paddock in mobile accommodation)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Margaret River
Free-range Eggs.</b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in</span>: Margaret
River</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from:</span> For stockists, head to <a href="http://www.margaretrivereggs.com.au/">http://www.margaretrivereggs.com.au/</a>
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to the public: </span>Yes, for their
annual open day in November</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">How many hens: </span>2,500
hens per hectare (pastures are rotated)</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Free-range Chicken:</i></b></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mt Barker Free-Range
Chicken</b> (owned by Milne Agrigroup)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in:</span> Mt
Barker (near Albany)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from: </span>Most supermarkets and butchers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to the
public:</span> No</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Free-range Pork:</i></b></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jindong Free-range
(grass-fed)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in: </span>south
of Busselton</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from: </span>The Local Grocer (online); Manning Farmers Market (at Greenfriar Distributions
stall)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to public: </span>Open
to industry only</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Killara Open-Range
Pork</b></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in: </span>Boyup
Brook</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from: </span>Selected butchers, such as Exclusive Meats and Meat @79</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to public: </span>Unknown</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Laterite Ridge Free-range
(also free-range eggs)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in: </span>York</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from: </span>Perth City Farmers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to public: </span>No</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Linley Valley Free
Range Pork</b> (owned by Craig Mostyn Group)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in: </span>Albany</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from: </span>Selected butchers; IGA</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to public: </span>No</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Plantagenet Pork</b>
(owned by Milne Agrigroup)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in:</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plantagenet region, Great Southern</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from: </span>Selected butchers;<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </span>Coles;
Woolworths</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to public:</span>
No</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spencers Brook Farm</b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Based in: </span>Toodyay</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Available to buy
from: </span>Production currently on hold</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Farm open to public: </span>No</span></div>
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aeronautical museum, or get a taste of the real thing with a birds-eye view
from a glider. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eat and drink your way
around Chittering while the kids run amok on the walking trails, and don’t
forget their spectacular wildflower displays in Spring. Visit the enormous
wheatbins and deep space radio antenna in Victoria Plains, or get all spooked-out
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is one of the world’s greatest long-distance walking trails, rambling through
almost one thousand kilometres of gorgeous terrain from Kalamunda in Perth’s
eastern suburbs to Albany in the South-West. The kids will have great fun following
the trail signs featuring a Waugal (an Aboriginal snake-like creature) as part
of an awesome day hiking in the great outdoors. If you have the inclination and
are feeling a little more adventurous, why not try camping overnight in one of
the forty-eight campsites and shelters dotted along the way? Just remember the
Track’s motto – Leave No Trace – so take your rubbish with you! </span></span>
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about cooking fresh damper out in the bush? Children’s Camp Kitchen sessions
are held regularly throughout the year, with the next one held in October. </span></span></div>
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weather-appropriate clothing, energy snacks, bag for rubbish, first aid kit,
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Just an hour’s drive north of Perth is
Gingin, a small town with a truckload of family things to do. Check out the
wonders of space through a fully-retractable roof at the Gingin Observatory,
then head next door to the Gravity Discovery Centre for a solar system walk. If
the temperature’s rising, cool off at the aquatic centre or follow the coastal
road out to Moore River, a mecca for Perth families. Hire a dinghy, jump on a
horse for a trail ride, check out the spanking new farmyard zoo, or just
stretch out on the sand for a bit of shut-eye - if the kids will let you.</span></span></div>
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is a local treasure, and one of the best we’ve seen. Eighteen holes in a lush
setting, with animal feeding and a restaurant with home-cooked meals to boot.</span></span></div>
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Harbour is a Mecca for families, with lots of entertainment for the kidlets and
lots of eating out for the adults. Go for broke on the waterslides or five
hundred square foot rock climbing wall at The Great Escape or, for some more
relaxed action, try your hand at their mini-golf, 6D cinema and trampolines.
For a taste of marine action, head to AQWA or simply chillax on the sheltered
swimming beach with nothing but a towel, bucket and spade. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When tummies start to rumble, there’s a mecca
of kid-friendly dining options in the form of burgers, steak, pizza, fish ‘n
chips, Tex-Mex, chocolate and ice-cream. </span></span></div>
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season runs through Spring, when the majestic humpbacks are on the move. We’re blessed
to have them right on our doorstep. Whale watching tours run daily from
Hillarys Boat Harbour, with guaranteed sightings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">An hour’s drive due north of Perth, Lancelin
boasts some of the best windsurfing in the world. There are also fourteen
shipwrecks and a host of reefs along the coastline to explore via snorkelling,
scuba diving and swimming. And let’s not forget boogie-boarding and surfing
around the point at Back Beach. Keep your eyes peeled for sea lions and pods of
dolphins too – the area is renowned for them - or head over to Lancelin Island
for birdwatching. For land lubbers, the enormous sand dunes will provide hours
of thrillseeking, with sand boarding, dune buggy racing and four-wheel driving
all on offer. Don’t forget a visit to the eerie majesty of the Pinnacles – it’s
a must-do.</span></span></div>
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3500 year old living stromatolites abound, and are linked to the earliest life
on Earth. Explore the walkways and read up on these fascinating structures. </span></span></div>
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tourist destination has absolutely got it in spades. Close to Perth and only
five minutes from the mainland? Tick. Gorgeous scenery? Tick. Cute little
penguins? Tick. It’s also got dolphins, sea lions, stingrays, pelicans and
around fifty species of sea bird, so it’s heaven for wildlife lovers. The kids
will love penguin feeding time, held three times a day. Take a cruise of the
wildlife sanctuary on a glass bottom boat, and check out the nesting sea birds
on Seal Island. Get up close and personal with the sea lions on a sea kayak.
Seriously folks, this place has it all.</span></span>
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for adventure, jump aboard the dolphin, penguin and sea lion cruise. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visit fossils in Aladdin’s Cave, watch ospreys
nest and listen to the clicks and whistles of dolphins thanks to an underwater
microphone. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ah, Rockingham. We just can’t get enough of her
gorgeous award-winning beaches. From the child-friendly waters of Cockburn
Sound, snorkel spots dotted around Point Peron and surf beaches at Secret
Harbour, paradise is only 40kms south of Perth. But it’s not all pristine
waters and idyllic coastline. Tag along on the Naragebup Environment Centre’s night-time
frog walk, browse around their monthly markets and check out the highlights of Lake
Richmond, which boasts over one hundred species of birds. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Hidden in Waikiki is
Fantasy Park, with a sensory garden and touching panels for the
hearing-impaired, interactive play sculptures and barbecue facilities</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Swimming around in the ocean with wild dolphins is right up there on
most people’s bucket list. It’s the wildlife encounter of a lifetime, and it’s
right here on our doorstep, so what are you waiting for!</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Sunscreen, hat, waterproof camera (for swimming with dolphins), bathers,
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">What’s not to love about ‘Rotto’? Just a
glimpse of its pristine waters will have you breathing easier. Only a short
trip from the mainland by ferry, there’s bike riding (electric or manual to
hire, or bring your own) that will take you around the tiny isle past an incredible
sixty-three beaches, twenty bays, salt lakes, lighthouses and lookouts. See if
you can spot the adorable quokkas on the way, or grab a bus to the outer
reaches of the island, West End, and check out the colony of fur seals. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you prefer something wetter, there’s world-class
snorkelling, swimming and diving. And don’t forget to pop over for the
inaugural family-friendly event Carnivale in September. We hear it’s going to
be huge.</span></span></div>
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Oliver Hill, which features a gun used in WWII, is a maze of underground
tunnels just itching for kids to explore. Tours run several times a day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Seriously, what’s not to love about the Swan
Valley? It’s near to Perth. It has an abundance of wine, chocolate and cheese.
Oh, and there’s stacks of things for the kids to do, too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Want to let off some steam? Try Oasis Supa
Golf, an eighteen hole golf course with oversized clubs and balls for the
little ones. Or perhaps The Swan Valley Animal Farm is more your speed,
including bottle and bucket feeding. Kids feeling peckish? Get yourself to
Mondo Nougat, Oggies Ice-Cream Café or one of the two chocolate companies in
the area. That’s not counting all the child-friendly cafes and wineries with
play areas as well. </span></span>
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Valley via a list of cryptic clues. There are ten different checkpoints and a
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ages. Close to Perth, it has around four thousand hectares to explore with
loads of things to do. Hand-feed the kangaroos, see Australia’s native animals
and have a pic taken with a koala at Caversham Wildlife Park. Ride with style
aboard a vintage bus, train or tram, get hands-on in the transport and tractor
museums and sample sweets from all over the world at the lolly shop. Get wet at
the water playground, take a night tour of Woodland Reserve and watch rare
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">The Federal Treasurer Peter
Costello recently announced that he would crack down on the State Government
for double-taxing the people of Western Australian. MOTOR spoke to him about this and the
industry’s own double-dipping woes…</span></span></span></div>
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The Federal Treasurer believes that with GST revenue far surpassing all
expectations, the States need to now make good on their pledge to abolish the
nine State taxes GST has replaced in accordance with the inter-governmental GST
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many States feel they have already met their obligations to the Federal
Government, with many holding the view they have been ‘ripped off’ by the
Treasurer and Democrats Leader Meg Lees citing him as ‘mischievous’. NSW recently offered the Federal Government
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1 July, the Treasurer announced he would put measures in place to force NSW and
WA into honouring the GST agreement. Eric Ripper conceded his government would
fully comply with the GST agreement with the abolition of the Bank Accounts
Debits Tax. He also said WA had already
axed the Financial Institutions Duty and Stamp Duty on Quotable Marketable
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7 July, WA State Treasurer Eric Ripper announced that there would be a new
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to you, many Australians are currently being double-taxed by the GST as well as
the taxes it was designed to replace. As you are probably aware from your
meeting with Peter Fitzpatrick, the vehicle dealers of WA are also the victims
of double-dipping by the State Government following the introduction of the new
stamp duty Ruling on loan and leave vehicles on 1 July 2005. Can you provide a
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I am
concerned about the tax burdens imposed on businesses and individuals by State
and Territory Governments. The WA Government is projecting to collect $645
million in motor vehicle taxes in 2004-05 and $642 million in 2005-06, which is
up 30 per cent since July 2001. Across
the Forward Estimates total tax revenue for WA is projected to increase from
around $4 billion in 2005-06 to $4.6 billion in 2008-09, which is an increase
of around 16 per cent.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 1999,
Australian Government, State and Territory leaders signed an Intergovernmental
Agreement on the Reform of Commonwealth State Financial Relations (the IGA)
which provides that all GST revenue is paid to the States and Territories. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
GST revenue for WA is forecast to increase from $3.8 billion in 2005-06 to
around $4.4 billion in 2008-09. In the absence of further tax reform, this will
provide a cumulative windfall above WA’s Guaranteed Minimum Amount of around
$1.4 billion. The GST was intended to
replace a range of inefficient indirect taxes, one Commonwealth and nine State
taxes, which were listed in the IGA. These State taxes were identified by the
States themselves as undesirable on efficiency and equity grounds.<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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all of these taxes were to be abolished on or before 1 July 2001, with the
exception of stamp duty on non residential conveyances of real property which
was to cease to apply from a date to be determined by the Ministerial Council
on the basis that no State or Territory would be worse off.<span lang="EN-US"> </span>In
order to get the GST legislation through the Senate, as part of an agreement
with the Australian Democrats, some items were removed from the GST base
meaning it raised less revenue. As a result the States would not receive enough
revenue to abolish all these taxes by 1 July 2001 without being worse off.<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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was therefore agreed that wholesale sales tax and accommodation (bed) taxes
would be abolished on 1 July 2000, Financial Institutions Duty and stamp duty
on quoted marketable securities would be abolished by 1 July 2001, and bank
account debits tax abolished by 1 July 2005. All the other taxes would then be
reviewed so that if GST was sufficient they could then be abolished.<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Over
six years from 2004-05, anticipated GST revenue payments to the States will
amount to around $243 billion, exceeding original projections. In the absence
of further tax reform, it is estimated that this would result in the States
receiving a windfall of around $17 billion compared to the amount they would
have received under the former system of Commonwealth-State financial
relations. In light of this growing GST
windfall, at the 23 March 2005 meeting of the Ministerial Council for
Commonwealth State Financial Relations, the Australian Government proposed a
timetable for the elimination of the majority of stamp duties listed under the
IGA for the benefit of Australian businesses and families. </span></span></div>
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20 April 2005, six States and Territories responded to the Australian
Government with an alternative proposal on the timing and sequencing of the
elimination of these taxes. Western Australia was not a party to this offer. It
wants to keep the State taxes and the GST, which was introduced to replace
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You announced on 1 July 2005 that
over the next twelve months you would be putting measures in place to compel
NSW and WA into honouring the GST agreement with the Federal Government. What
sort of measures do you mean to use to force the WA Government into abolishing
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> People
in other States will not have to pay GST and the State taxes it replaces. The
WA Government wants to double tax West Australians, unlike those in the Eastern
States. The Australian Government wants to encourage the WA Government to
protect West Australians against double taxation and give them tax relief that
other Australians will receive. A range
of measures are available to the Australian Government to encourage the WA
Government to abolish these taxes. However, as noted before, the Australian
Government wants to deliver this outcome by agreement. It is premature, at this
stage, to outline the response if the WA Government tries to maintain double
taxation.<span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Everyone
knows the GST was introduced to replace nominated State taxes. Six of the eight
States and Territories have offered timetables for the abolition of IGA taxes.
The WA Government is at present refusing to abolish the taxes that the GST is
intended to replace and putting West Australians behind people in other States.
No State can keep the GST revenue and the taxes it is designed to replace.
Should the WA Government continue to double-tax its citizens, the Australian
Government will introduce measures to encourage the WA Government to relieve
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><u>Keeping the Faith</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">When Ezra Pound opened in Northbridge back in September
2009, it was among several front-runners to redefine our capital city’s
hospitality topography. Small bar licenses had recently been given the green
light, and the people of Perth were hell-bent on embracing the small bar scene.
Cut to five years on, and the boys behind Ezra Pound - Talmage Andersen and Jan
Kulski - are back with their next offering, Old Faithful.</span></span></div>
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Faithful is an idea that sparked while I was travelling through the US in 2011”</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, says
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sitting at an American barbecue restaurant eating a plate full of smoked meat
and drinking one of the most delicious IPA craft brews, it seemed like a
no-brainer to me. The trick was to translate the idea to the Australian market,
which wasn't really that hard considering how much we love barbecue and beer
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even more humbling to be a part of that growth, while helping to add culture to
this beautiful city. I love seeing some of our hospitality professionals
getting into their own venues, and adding their unique style and design to our
once-boring hospitality landscape. I certainly think one of the biggest
challenges for small business operators is the lengthy process in obtaining
your license to trade. It can take up to one year to process, and when you’re
paying rent on an empty space for a year, this can turn into a costly exercise.”</span></span></div>
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Despite the challenges, stay tuned - the boys have whispered to us they may be
planning a cheeky little pop-up bar very soon.</span></span></div>
Published articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-6065310261347345952014-06-26T20:39:00.000-07:002014-07-08T06:02:53.667-07:00Scoop Magazine, Autumn 2013<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s no secret that Perth’s dining scene is bursting its
britches at the moment, and with that comes lots and lots of choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where to begin? Chinese restaurants in
particular are a veritable minefield: it could take years trying to sort the succulent
Peking duck from the same ol’, same ol’ fried rice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you have a particular penchant for authentic Chinese
food, follow the Asian community to Northbridge. According to a popular food website
(oh alright, we’re talking about Urbanspoon), the three highest rating Chinese
restaurants cite Northbridge as their physical address. The top end of William
Street buzzes at all hours of the day and night with a plethora of Chinese
supermarkets, restaurants and people. Duck into The Red Teapot or Shanghai Tea
Garden for inexpensive, fair-dinkum Chinese fare that is worlds away from the Westernised
lemon chicken or beef in black bean sauce. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Northbridge is also home to a Chinese institution – yum cha.
Seriously, if you haven’t experienced yum cha during a weekend lunchtime rush
hour, then you haven’t really experienced Asian dining. Small, enticing plates
of fried and steamed yumminess are ferried about from table to table via
trolleys, all washed down with oceans of Chinese tea (not booze, people!). It’s
fast, noisy and delicious. You eat until you’re bursting, eat a bit more, and then
stagger out the door. Your table will be filled in a flash. The best places to
go in Northbridge for a true yum cha experience, complete with queues and ticket-taking,
are on Francis Street (Dragon Palace, Joy Garden, Xintiandi), Roe Street (Regal
on Roe, Northbridge Chinese) or James Street (New Moon, Golden Century,
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But please, don’t just limit yourself to inner city eating
out. If you cast your net wider, there are fab Chinese restaurants sprinkled
all over the place. The pearl in Fremantle’s crown for Chinese cuisine is Joy
Kitchen, while Aquarium Seafood Chinese in Ascot is a multi-award winner. Good
One BBQ, Ten Ten and Chi are the go-to Chinese restaurants on the Vic Park
strip, and Chin’s Noodle House in Leeming are best loved among locals for their
Peking duck. In the north, Wing Soon is a family fave in Morley and Gold Garden
Seafood BBQ in Balcatta packs them in for yum cha in the burbs. For ‘best
quality’, you can’t go past the spanking new Silks at Crown Casino.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most Chinese restaurants in Australia serve Cantonese food –
that is, cuisine from southern China. Here’s why: during the 80s and 90s, when
the transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty between the United Kingdom and China
became imminent, there was a mass exodus of a million Hong Kong Cantonese. The
residents were concerned about what living under Chinese rule would mean for
them, and fled to the UK, the US and – yes – Australia. These days, Cantonese
wonton noodles and shark fin soup are an integral part of the English vocab.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So once you’ve found your perfect Chinese eatery, what on
earth do you order when you get there? Most if not all restaurants with have even
a middling reputation for a signature dish or two that regulars return again
and again for (and, they hope, rave to their friends about). Rich,
crispy-skinned Peking duck is top of the Chinese food chain. Served as one, two
or three duck dishes, courses generally include pancakes, soup and san choi bao
(minced duck served in iceberg lettuce leaves). Good Fortune Roast Duck House in
Northbridge gets our tick. Deep fried squid tentacles are also very popular, as
are char siu bao (soft, steamed buns filled with saucy barbecued pork) and
Shanghai dumplings (thinly wrapped parcels bursting with soup and minced meat).
For awesome handmade dumplings with a northern Chinese take, try Mom Dumpling
House in Victoria Park. There are so many choices in Perth that you’ll be
eating out for a month of Sundays – at least for yum cha, anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There’s so much to tell about this place that, quite
frankly, I don’t know where to begin. Should I start with its multi-award-winning hip-hop owner, Drapht (aka Paul Ridge) who, thanks to an
impressive array of food intolerances, ended up opening up his own café just so
he could eat out in safety? Perhaps the menu, which is all-organic,
gluten-free, dairy-free, processed sugar-free and has a healthy dose of raw,
vegan and vegetarian dishes to boot? Or the kitchen, with a dessert chef who
specialises in raw organic sweets and a world-class head chef who’s well-versed
in cooking organically and specialises in food intolerances?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Let’s start with the beverages. Forget your soft drinks and
reconstituted OJ – this place is all about coconut water, made-to-order fruit
juices and smoothies, and kombucha probiotics. You can also order from a range
of coffee and tea, but it’ll be with rice milk or almond milk. When the muso
and I visited for dinner, we went with the fruit juices - a ‘kidney cleanse’
(watermelon, green apple and carrot) and a ‘liver love’ (carrot, apple, kale,
celery, lemon and ginger). We couldn’t help but feel refreshed after all that
colour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To the food and, to be frank, if we weren’t already au fait
with many of the ingredients we may have been a little put off. Quinoa
(pronounced ‘keen-wah’, not ‘ka-no-wa’), agave and coconut oil feature fairly
heavily on the menu, and if diners aren’t down with these terms they may feel a
bit bereft. Saying that, there are plenty of familiar ingredients to fall back
on. Grass-fed lamb cutlets crumbed with garlic, lemon and fresh oregano gave us
lean, clean flavours, while a side dish of beetroot chips crisped up in the
dehydrator were healthy and moreish (yes, the two terms can co-exist). A warm
winter lamb salad with parsnip, purple carrots and slow-roasted tomato was,
like many of the dishes, massive. The food is filling, but not in a bloaty,
I’m-going-to-have-to-go-have-a-lie-down kind of way. In other words, it’s real
food without any of the preservatives, emulsifiers, additives, improvers and
refined white stuff that make most of us feel a little bit meh. This was a good
thing, because the dessert card rocked. At Solomon’s the sweets apparently take
two days to create. They’re raw, 100% organic and extremely popular, as we
discovered when we were advised the raw Snickers had sold out (noooo…).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all, it had ten organic ingredients in it
that we were itching to sample, but what can you do. We went with a choc-banana
cheesecake and the last slice of chai caramel cheesecake (ha!). To get an idea
of the amount of grunt that goes into these desserts, let me list the
ingredients of the latter cheesecake: almonds, cashews, rice syrup, coconut
oil, Celtic salt, vanilla cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, chai tea, ginger, dates
and tahini. It cost $14 and was sensational. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is Solomon’s expensive? Yes, it’s up there, but then I
imagine so would the eatery’s organic shopping and specialty ingredients bill. The
service is smiley and passionate – staff know their stuff and so they should,
because they’re bound to get asked lots of questions about the ingredients. The
sprawling venue seats around a hundred people, and if you keep an eye on the
pass you may get a glimpse of a calm, self-possessed young man going about his
business. Mark my words, Solomon’s is a taste of things to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Address – Solomon's, 487 Beaufort Street, Highgate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Buzz – A Mecca for anybody who enjoys organic wholefood,
and an absolute haven for those with food allergies and/or intolerances.
Solomon’s fills a growing hole in Perth’s dining out scene.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click <a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lifestyle/a/19007523/food-to-make-you-feel-whole/" target="_blank">here </a>for link </span></b></div>
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Published articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-49490346855950400732013-09-10T22:21:00.000-07:002014-07-08T06:04:16.725-07:00The West Australian Newspaper: July 2013<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>'Toscano’s
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Melbourne-based Italian greengrocers Toscano’s is a family
business that’s been chugging along for more than sixty years. In this book,
granddaughter Joanne showcases what her extended family do with all that
home-grown goodness in the form of a cookbook that covers over seventy classic
Italian dishes. But it’s not all fruit and veg: we’re also talking truffle
fettuccine, roast lamb shoulder and mango tiramisu. There are also lots of tips
and tricks on how to get the most out of your fresh produce, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s International Year of the Quinoa, did you know? With
that in mind, Ancient Grains covers a silo-full of whole grains (including the
aforementioned) and what their health benefits are. Thankfully, the book
includes over one hundred recipes too, because quite often the question with
grains is not whether or not they are good for us (we know they are), but how
exactly do we prepare and cook them? If you’re into grains, or are thinking
about extending your repertoire, this will surely be your go-to book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With a quarter of a million unique readers a month, Lorraine
Elliott is arguably Australia’s food blogging queen. Formerly a media
strategist, Elliott takes the reader on a journey through her life as a
fully-fledged, full-time food blogger, from doing a stint in jail (in the name
of research), to gatecrashing exclusive parties, media famils and interviewing
celebrity chefs from all over the world, including, finally, her blogging
namesake, Nigella Lawson. Throw in a few recipes, and you have a fun and
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are lots of cookbooks geared towards the family on the
shelves at the moment, but this one caught our eye for its Sri Lankan bent.
Kumar, a former MasterChef contestant, began writing out these recipes
(complete with gorgeous drawings) for his sons, and they have gradually
snowballed into a book. It includes Sri Lankan dishes (lamprais curry; roti) as
well as everyday family faves (crispy-skinned pork belly; sticky toffee
pudding), showing off Kumar’s talents as a cook, artist and all-round family
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This fairly new place on the Victoria Park strip feels like home
away from home - if I was living in Bombay. The Indian eatery is tucked away at
the southern end of Albany Highway, two doors down from The Prophet, and is as
cute as a button, with the chatty young owner ensuring everybody feels, well,
right at home. There is indoor and alfresco seating to choose from, and on a
weeknight, both areas are bursting at the seams. Yes okay, we’ve been here
before, but apart from the awesome food and friendly owner, the main reason we
keep boomeranging back is because the food is consistent. Too often I’ve found
that Indian restaurants serve up a dish that’s fantastic one week and dreadful
the next. Here, if you order the goat curry, you’ll get the same succulent,
fall-off-the-bone goat curry every day of the week. But more about that later.</div>
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Décor-wise, it’s trad Indian. Chilli-red walls, gilt-edged
Indian oil paintings and tapestries, with Indian music on the sound system. They’re
just about to undergo a re-fit though, so don’t quote me. The service is
old-style: free pappadams and tap water for the table without having to ask for
it. It’s fully BYO, and corkage is three bucks. None of the dishes on the menu
make it over $20, and judging by all the foot traffic, take-away is a popular weeknight
can’t-be-bothered-cooking option.</div>
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When I visit with the family, we always order the same
dishes, hence why we know they’re consistent with the meals. The yellow dhal is
a classic comfort food, chunky and soupy with just enough bite to raise a bead
or two of sweat. And then there is the goat. A bit of bone but not too much,
immersed in a thick gravy brought to new flavour heights by the fattiness of
the meat, and so tender barely any chewing is required. They nail it every
time. Generous dishes of saffron rice and naan done just right help to mop up all
the glorious liquid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Generally, butter
chicken comes in a galaxy of combinations – some are too creamy, some have too
much tomato. Others are too spicy, and when you have a six year old addicted to
butter chicken, too much heat does us no favours on the eating front. Spicy
Affair’s version has a perfect balance of all these flavours and again, they do
it the same way every time, so we don’t have to worry whether our child will be
eating or not that night. The sauces meld into a happy slurry on the plate, and
more bread is usually required. </div>
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Dessert is but one choice – gulab jamun. Two balls of hot,
syrupy and extremely sweet milk dumplings that is made in-house, and we’re done.
I’ll be dreaming about that goat.</div>
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Spicy Affair, 909A
Albany Highway, East Victoria Park. Telephone 6162 8767</span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Score: 13.5 out of 20</span></div>
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Published articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-34090753608732390622013-09-10T21:43:00.001-07:002014-07-08T06:05:38.547-07:00Scoop Magazine: March 2013<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For many of us, cooking Indian food can seem a little daunting. There’s all those spices, for a start. And how exactly do you cook
roti? Fear not: with a knowledge and preparation, it doesn’t
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The first thing to do is get your Indian spices sorted. Sure,
there’s a lot of them but once you’ve bought them, you’re halfway there.
Essential to the shopping list are turmeric, cardamom, cinnamon, garam masala
and cumin. You can also throw in some fennel seeds, cloves, mustard seeds, coriander,
chillies, fenugreek seeds and a smidge of saffron (it can be expensive) while
you’re in the spice aisle. If you prefer to go fresh with your spices or save
money by buying in bulk, head to an Indian supermarket, such as Maharajah Stores
or Shree Ganesh. If you haven’t got the time (or simply can’t be bothered), visit
Turban Chopsticks in Highgate for a range of ready-made Indian pastes, meal
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Once you’ve got your spice rack tricked up, it’s time to
turn to the other essentials. Coconut milk is in order, as are packets and tins
of basmati rice, chickpeas, split lentils of various hues, ginger, garlic and
mint. If you want to be a real traditionalist you can also add a large wok
(called a ‘karahi’ or ‘kadhai’) and a griddle (called a ‘tawa’) to your
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“A mortar pestle is also a really good product to have,”
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“A pressure cooker is a really good idea, too, as it
reduces cooking time. Another great cooking utensil is a mesh cooking spoon
that is called a spider, which is really useful for deep-frying. And always
cook with ghee (clarified butter). It just tastes so much better, even though
it’s slightly more calorific. Prime Products in Osborne Park can help you out
with most Indian ingredients and products.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Indian cuisine is enormously diverse and changes from
region to region, so what to cook? At first, perhaps try sticking to what you
know and like. Northern Indian dishes tend to be richer and creamier than their
southern counterparts, with lots of different kinds of flatbread (such as naan
and chapatti). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Southern Indian cooking leans
towards spicier fare, focusing on vegetable dishes and rice. Of course, it’s
not all cut and dried - there is a seemingly endless break-down of regional flavours
and dishes as well. Gujarati cuisine, for example, comes from India’s west and
centres around vegetarianism, while the rich and complex dishes of Awadhi
cuisine in the north includes basmati and kebabs. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Every community and
every caste all have unique elements to their regional dishes. It’s determined
by what is produced in that area. In Perth, Indian restaurants were
traditionally Punjabi-owned restaurants. Punjab is an area of India, and its
cuisine includes saag, paneer and butter chicken, which is actually a concocted
dish. Things are changing now though, and a lot of Indians coming to Western
Australia these days are demanding regional food.” </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s also good to know your food fundamentals when
embarking on an Indian cooking challenge. Roti bread is eaten throughout India,
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“There are so many different types of dhal,” says Latasha.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“They all have different colours and cooking times, and they
can be whole or split. Dhal is universal, yet there are so many styles. There
is dhal makhani, which is very north Indian. The south Indians would use a toor
dhal in a lentil dish called sambhar, which there are also many versions of.
Rice dishes too are universal, from Pakistan down to Sri Lanka. The dhal in the
rice dish is often made into pancakes, which is called dhosha.” </div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For recipes and inspiration, perhaps nab yourself an
Indian cookbook, such as Christine Manfield’s ‘Tasting India’ (Penguin) or the
tome ‘India: The Cookbook’ by Pushpesh Pant (Phaidon Press).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or turn to the web: SBS has a fair range of
Indian recipes </span><a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">www.sbs.com.au</span></a><span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> ,
while ‘Sailu’s Kitchen’ is one of the world’s top Indian food bloggers </span><a href="http://www.sailusfood.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.sailusfood.com</span></a><span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> .</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2a2a2a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If you’re still not feeling confident enough to go it
alone, perhaps book yourself into an Indian cooking class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are stacks of cooking schools around
Perth, with many running hands-on Indian cooking classes. Latasha’s Kitchen in
Leederville regularly runs both beginners and advanced sessions, and has a
great in-house store of Indian pastes, cookware, utensils and cookbooks for
sale. The Indian classes at Taste Budds Cooking Studio in Highgate regularly
sell out (think roti, dhal and Sophie Budd’s featured recipe, onion bhaji).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Published articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-78961329436299663112012-10-24T07:40:00.003-07:002014-07-08T06:05:55.812-07:00The West Australian: October 2012<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">picture</span>: R<span style="font-size: x-small;">ob Duncan/The West Australian</span></span></i></div>
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<b>Growing Pains for Perth Food Industry</b></div>
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Few could argue that these days, Perth’s food and beverage scene
is fast-tracking at a blistering pace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There’s the recent re-branding of Burswood Entertainment Complex to
Crown Perth and its conga line of big names – Rockpool, Nobu, Guillaume – making
the pilgrimage West.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jamie Oliver is set
to land in the city early next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On
the home-front, the CBD’s new Brookfield Plaza has brought with it a level of world-class
sophistication previously lacking locally, with The Trustee, Heritage and Print
Hall openings derailing any further talk of the city being dismissed as sleepy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eclectic small bars are opening on a
seemingly weekly basis, and even our fast food is becoming more
gentrified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that’s not to mention
all the bells and whistles that the ten hectares of Elizabeth Quay will bring
with it, including pop-up kiosks, restaurants and cafes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Phew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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While Perth is unlikely to ever rival larger, more
established food-centric cities such as New York, its hospitality industry nevertheless
seems to be going gangbusters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a
wider selection of eateries for diners to choose from, an increase in job
creation and a shake-up in terms of food, service and venue quality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So how are our local chefs faring with all
this upheaval?</div>
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“With all the new places opening up, it’s certainly making
staffing tight for the industry at the moment,” says Clint Nolan, the hands-on
chef-owner of venues Harvest, La Cholita and Who’s Your Mumma.</div>
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“But I think that will subside in time, where there will be
a lot more professionally-trained staff available.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly for the short-term things are
tighter on the employment front.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
doesn’t affect trade for us though, as we’re pretty isolated in the styles and
venues that we have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ve each got
their own character and clientele, which is good.”</div>
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David Coomer, the owner of Pata Negra and new director of food
to Print Hall, tends to agree.</div>
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“Staffing has always been a pain,” he says.</div>
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“The people have to come from somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I think all the new openings will do
wonders for staff training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more
quality operations are around, the better quality our trainees are going to be,
if you can find them to start with.”</div>
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The high cost of food, both for diners and for
restaurateurs, is nothing new to Perth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Factors
such as our geographical isolation, food freight costs, staff penalty rates and
high rents have all been cited as reasons to bump up the price of the average
meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These days, many of not most main
meals crack the $40 mark, while similar dishes in the Eastern states continue
to languish in the thirties. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But with
all this change, can we expect prices to tumble any time soon?</div>
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“We will always have the tyranny of distance,” says David.</div>
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“At Pata Negra, we’re passionate about buying locally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But unfortunately a lot of stuff we need has
to come from the Eastern states too, so we have those big freight cost issues.”</div>
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Although according to Matt Stone, executive chef to Greenhouse
Perth, Melbourne’s Silo and an assortment of pop-ups, high food costs can often
be due to one-part acquisitiveness, one-part complacency.</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I’m lucky enough
that I’ve been kicking around between Melbourne, Sydney and overseas a fair bit
lately,” he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“And when I come back to Perth, I feel some restaurants are
taking the piss a little bit with the prices they charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course some food in Perth is going to cost
more, but I don’t think that’s always the case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because we’ve been limited with the restaurants we’ve had here for so
long, there are mediocre places that are charging a lot more for food than they
probably should, and those prices have stayed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I mean, you can go to an average pub and pay $45 for a steak, chips and
salad, and the chips have come from a bag. But Perth people have been paying
these prices for a long time, so a lot of restaurants continue to charge high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“I really love that in Melbourne there’s a great variety of
mid-range restaurants that are serving beautiful food at a really affordable
price.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d like to think Greenhouse fits
into that category, but there aren’t many other mid-range restaurants in Perth.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And with all these big restaurants
coming over, I hope that food prices drop due to producers growing everything
in larger quantities and getting better yields.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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“With Perth growing up and creating its own hospitality
culture, sure it might be tight in the short-term. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But in the long-term, it may stop our young final-year
apprentices or anyone with any real professionalism moving to either Melbourne,
London or New York to obtain that experience,” says Clint. </div>
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“They’re going to want to stay in Perth, because Perth will
have the diversity and something to offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s what I’m looking forward to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I mean, industry professionals are moving over here because of what we
have to offer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve got the weather,
we’ve got the beaches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It won’t be long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s when we’ve made it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s when Perth will have really grown up.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Click <a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lifestyle/a/-/article/15154588/growing-pains-in-perth-food-industry/">here</a> for the online article. </span></div>
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restaurant and order what I want instead of the weird dish on the menu that
no-one else wants to order.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to be
able to go back again and again to favourite restaurants which, as a restaurant
critic, is something you never get to do because you’re always having to move
on to the next place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels like a
great treat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a group of women,
mostly chefs and writers, and we travel together and eat and that’s really
fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last year we went to Spain; this
year we went to London and Paris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
just eat like crazy people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So that
gives me a little taste of remembering what it was like to do all that.”</span></span></div>
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foodies, Reichl’s interest in food didn’t stem from her mother, whose taste she
had diplomatically described in her various memoirs as being ‘extremely
limited’, and she began cooking for herself as a matter of self-preservation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 70s, she opened a restaurant called
Swallow with a group of like-minded friends.</span></span></div>
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trained cooks,” she says<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“We were just
people who loved to cook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a very
different time in food back then in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We baked our own bread, and people would come in and they couldn’t
believe we made our own vinaigrettes with olive oil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would make twenty quiches every morning, and
people would come in and go ‘What’s a qwishay?’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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wonderful,” she says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“I really, really
loved it but just wish I’d been there longer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I spent four days in Melbourne and four days in Sydney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I easily could have stayed four months in
each place. The food was great, the people were wonderful and it was so
interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t working, just
eating and walking, which is my idea of a good time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d really love to come over to Perth at some
point, but this trip is just too short.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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start shooting again for (US television show) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Top Chef Masters</i>.”</span></span></div>
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giving talks on 6-7 October at the Crave Sydney International Food Festival,
which runs throughout October.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For more
information, head to </span><a href="http://www.cravesydney.com/"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.cravesydney.com/</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> .</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Pete Evans has just emerged from the waves in
Sydney, and the wind is whistling down the phone line as he sets off for a
brisk walk home. The amicable television
chef, author, surfer and fisherman is happy to chat, despite not being aware of
the scheduled interview. At the time of
writing, the third series of Channel Seven’s ‘My Kitchen Rules’ is reaching its
zenith, and grand final week is well underway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">“I’ve had a ball on the show; so far it’s
been fantastic,” says Pete. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">“And it’s great working alongside Manu, he’s
a good man. I’ve learnt a lot from the
contestants and, hopefully, they’ve learnt a lot from us as well. It’s resonated with the Australian audience,
which is wonderful after everyone’s hard work and sacrifice to make the
program. They’re casting now for series
four, but that’s all I know at the moment.
They’re looking for teams as we speak, which is pretty exciting.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">Pete has been kept on his toes since wrapping
series three of MKR at the end of last year, working with Sumo Salad on their
salad range and spending time with Martha Stewart. Yes, that one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">“I’ve been on Martha’s show a couple of times
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">“We had dinner at my Mum’s house, which she
cooked for. It was a top night. She’s a great supporter of me, and vice
versa. She has such a passion for food,
and she just doesn’t stop”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: small;">“The restaurant is going to be in Canggu and
it will open by the end of the year. The
name is a surprise, though. It’s a
fantastic location, near some of the best surf breaks in Bali, and I’m looking
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doesn’t have immediate plans to follow his chef comrades on the journey West
(“although the surfing in Margaret River is fantastic”), but will be over for a
short stint to cook for Kitchen Warehouse.
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Evans will be appearing at Kitchen Warehouse’s Osborne Park store on 14 April.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I have been given a message for Michelle Bridges from the Perth Crew – “Pretty please can we have a finale party in Perth?”.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">I have no clue what this means, but Michelle laughs when I relay it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">“Oh my God!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those girls are relentless,” she cackles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">“They’re just hilarious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’ll get to me any which way they can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not immediately, but it is coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been tabled, and it’s definitely on its way.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Such is Bridges’ phenomenal popularity that she is revered by fitness fanatics around the country: fans who are devoted to her online fitness program ‘Twelve Week Body Transformation’, netting her around one thousand devotees and over 30,000 Twitter followers.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">The Perth Crew is one such group, who would rather not travel to Sydney to celebrate the end of three months of hard work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">These days, the name Michelle Bridges is synonymous with so many healthy words – diet, fitness, exercise, weight-loss.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">The personal trainer from Newcastle blasted into public prominence in 2006 on series one of Channel Ten’s ‘The Biggest Loser’, and her star’s been on the ascent ever since.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">But things weren’t always that way for the amicable fitness guru.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">“My Mum was a single mum with two kids and a full-time job, so she had her hands full,” says Michelle.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">“But she was very organised in the house.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Sometimes she’d get up at 6am and start chopping vegetables to prepare, say, a casserole for us after school.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">We didn’t have a lot of money, so there’s no way we could afford to be getting take-out.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">People who talk themselves into the belief that eating take-out is cheaper, well, it just isn’t.</span><span style="font-size: 100%; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Michelle Bridges fifth book ‘The No Excuses Cookbook’ by Viking is out now, RRP $29.95.</span></span></div>
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From working on the mines of Western Australia to becoming one of the most feted and sought-after chefs in the country, Marque restaurant’s Mark Best has come a long way, baby.</div>
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“I’ve written pieces and submitted articles for Gourmet Traveller and I’ve enjoyed the process of being interviewed over the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So to actually sit down and put it into a cohesive and interesting package was a real process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You understand that chatting like we are now is very different to putting things into words, and writing 6,000-7,000 words is quite difficult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But once I got into it I actually found it a cathartic process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I mention in the book, my sister was killed when she was seventeen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long time ago now, but there were memories such as these that came up which made writing a very, very emotional experience. You have to really analyse things, and I loved that part of it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Marque has always been a favourite with the critics, and in recent years it has won a slew of accolades, including Gourmet Traveller’s Restaurant of the Year 2012 and listing 70<sup>th</sup> in S Pellegrino’s World’s 100 Best Restaurants, arguably making Marque one of Australia’s most illustrious and important restaurants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And after twelve years in the game, it was high time to put pen to paper.</div>
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“In 2010 I was really gagging to write a book, but it took Hardie Grant (the book’s publisher) to have the balls to say ‘just do whatever you want and we’ll provide the resources’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before that, everyone wanted to change what we wanted to do, to dumb down the recipes or make them home-style recipes, which I didn’t want to do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To say a keen home cook can make the recipes when it takes seven of us days to produce a recipe is silly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the recipes are quantified as working recipes from Marque restaurant, and you can take what you want out of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People will be able to glean lots from it, particularly about the process of cooking at Marque.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Things weren’t always so rosy for the self-confessed late-bloomer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back in the 80s Best was not a particularly happy camper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After re-locating West with his family from the lush farming fields of Murray Bridge in South Australia to the somewhat harsher climes of Norseman, he began the hard slog as an electrical apprentice on the North-West gold mines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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With feet itching, Best moved to Sydney to re-fit submarines on Cockatoo Island for the Australian military.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But still something was amiss, and it was during a stint working at a friend’s restaurant at the ripe age of twenty-five that Best finally found his calling. </div>
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“I mean, people see me as some sort of life-change guru, but it was reasonably haphazard with a bit of design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sort of got pushed towards cooking and found I had an aptitude for it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I loved the whole French thing.” </div>
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By this stage Best had already met his future wife Valerie and a whirlwind romance ensued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pair decided to make a go of hospitality and opened a modern French eatery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But despite the restaurant enjoying early critical success, Best felt frustrated by his lack of culinary knowledge and went to work in France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He worked at the legendary ‘L’Arpége’ in Paris, followed by a stint at ‘Le Manoir Aux Quatre Saisons’ in the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On his return he and Valerie opened Marque, and the rest is hospitality folklore.</div>
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“And the difference from when we first opened is like night and day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first you’re your own boss with immature talent, so you start emulating your heroes and gradually, if you’re lucky, you are able to start to define your own style and create a language with what you do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think we hit our straps in 2004-05 – that was when things started happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We started to win accolades and we were able to get more staff and became busier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was a momentum, and we were able to create something unique.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Published articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-55996616913190389662011-10-08T18:24:00.000-07:002014-07-08T06:08:35.636-07:00The West Australian: October 2011<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">It seems that Olympic swimming hero and all-round nice guy Eamon Sullivan can do no wrong these days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">His new cafe in Subiaco, Louis Baxters, is going gangbusters and he has just released his first book - a cookbook called Eamon's Kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Oh, and he was crowned 2011 Cleo Bachelor of the Year in April.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">The just-turned 26-year-old is flitting between Sydney for training commitments and Perth to cosset his new venture - with swimming taking precedence at the moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"The London Olympics are next August and that's what it's all about for now," he says. "The trials are in March, so I've got around six months."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">That's not to say swimming will always be his number one priority. Sullivan is passionate about cooking and won Celebrity MasterChef in 2009, wowing judges and fans with his culinary prowess.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Not only was he a popular contestant but he also made a few friends along the way, including his cafe business partner, Laki Baker.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"We met on the set of MasterChef. She was my producer," Sullivan says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"She was filming on my bench so I got quite accustomed to spending time with her. She's a lovely girl, really easy to get on with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"We were both born in Perth and she was in Sydney for 16 years before moving back here with her husband. So we kept catching up and then she got a French bulldog and I'd been trying to find a breeder, so that's how I got mine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"And we'd have doggy playdates and discuss what we were going to do and it went from there."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Oh yes, the bulldogs. In fact, so enamoured are the pair with their canine buddies that they decided to name the cafe after them - Louis-Pierre is Laki's dog and Baxter is Sullivan's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"We really wanted it to be about us and to give it a funky name with a bit of a story behind it," he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">His first cooking spark began while watching his mum, who was a baker for New Norcia Bakery, and helping her out in the kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">As swimming took off during his high-school years, a gruelling daily schedule of training and school (starting at 5am and finishing at 7pm) left him a very hungry boy. Home economics saved him from certain starvation and left an indelible impression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"I was quite a fussy eater and home economics sort of forced me to try different things. I remember the first time I tried beef stroganoff, and as soon as I tried it - well, it just all happened from there really," he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">As Sullivan's hunger for food grew, so too did his thirst for knowledge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"I just read and read. Every time I was in a physio room or waiting for a doctor I would read Woman's Day, and when I'd get to the recipe section I'd discreetly rip it out to try it out," he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"I read whatever I could and experimented at home. I'm amazed by the Heston Blumenthal thing and molecular gastronomy, that side of cooking. I like the science behind it. I guess I like the theatre of that sort of food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"Then there were the cooking shows. I was watching Floyd with my parents when I was growing up and the Two Fat Ladies, and Jamie Oliver, and then the whole food and lifestyle thing took off and I'd be glued to the Food Channel on Foxtel. I pretty much preferred watching that to anything else."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">As if training for the Olympics and launching a trendy new eatery wasn't enough, Sullivan also decided to write a cookbook with many of the recipes that feature in the cafe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">The book is not so much about healthy low-fat food - more along the lines of simple dishes he enjoys cooking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"There's no whiz-bang sous vide machines involved or anything like that," he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"It's just about bringing together really nice, fresh ingredients that you're able to cook at home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"I guess when I was growing up as a teenager, boys didn't really cook at all and this is good for the guys who don't know how to cook but want to attempt something a bit different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"It's a good way to impress girlfriends or if the girlfriends want the boys to cook for them. I've tried to approach the book from every way. For example, if somebody's scared of cooking for a group of people, then I've put some menus in so they don't have to think about preparing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"It just takes the stress out of it. Even a slight shift in techniques and approaches can make all the difference."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">With his ongoing affair with all things food, it comes as no surprise that Sullivan has future plans with a culinary bent that look set on remaining local.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"I honestly love the eatery and that side of things and would love to get more involved," he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"I'd like to open another one in a couple of years with a bit of a wine bar and an a la carte menu. Somewhere where you'd spend some time and enjoy a glass of wine. I'm quite into wines, when I'm able.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"It was hard to move to Sydney as Perth was all I'd ever known. Family and friends are here, and that's something I really can't replace after spending 20 years of being in Perth. I love this city."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">Louis Baxters is at Shop 2, 50 Subiaco Square, Subiaco (opposite train station). 'Eamon's Kitchen' by Penguin is out now.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Click </span><a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lifestyle/a/-/food/10419773" style="color: #993300; font-family: arial;">here </a><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">for the Fresh article</span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">.</span><br />
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Published articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-25223660494093554122011-10-08T18:00:00.000-07:002014-07-08T06:09:02.957-07:00The West Australian: September 2011<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Anybody who has even a passing interest in chocolate will have heard of Willie Harcourt-Cooze, the British eccentric whose obsession with top-notch chocolate has been documented in various television series and books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">He will be one of the top drawcards at the Crave Sydney International Food Festival next month, where he will be sharing his passion for chocolate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"I can't wait to bring the fine flavours of chocolate and the culinary delights of cacao to the Australian kitchen," says Harcourt-Cooze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">He has visited our shores before. In fact, he came to live and work here in WA as a teenager for six months, following the death of his father in England.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"My most memorable time of being in Australia was when I was 18," he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"I worked on a couple of different sheep ranches outside Bridgetown, and in Kojonup. It was some of the hardest and most enjoyable work I've ever done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"There's nothing I'd love more than to go back and see the people I worked with again, but it's not going to be on this trip unfortunately."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Harcourt-Cooze's future plans include the launch of a new fruit chocolate range that features Cuban Orange, Sierra Leone Ginger and Lime and Peruvian Fruit and Nut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"The new range will deliver classic flavours paired with fine beans to the heart of all chocolate lovers," he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"And, of course, I'll continue to spread the love of chocolate."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">His cacao chocolate is available in Australia from Jones the Grocer. His books Willie's Chocolate Factory Cookbook and Willie's Chocolate Bible are available from book stores now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">The Crave Sydney International Food Festival will run throughout October. For more information, head to cravesydney.com.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Click <a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lifestyle/a/-/food/10300564/willie-takes-chocolate-obsession-to-sydney/">here</a> for the Fresh article.</span></span></div>
Published articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-89117434483203751572011-08-01T05:28:00.001-07:002014-07-08T06:09:29.468-07:00The West Australian: July 2011<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Alain Fabregues is a happy man. Run off his feet, but happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Two weeks ago, he unearthed the first West Australian truffle in history found outside the traditional truffle-growing regions of Manjimup and Pemberton, on his property in Toodyay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">As ever, the award-winning chef and owner of The Loose Box restaurant is evoking the WA pioneering spirit and breaking new ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"Well, I planted 1600 oak trees on my land in Toodyay seven years ago. I was there with my dog a couple of weeks ago and that was when we found it," he chuckles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"And Toodyay is about 500km due north from Manjimup, so it is quite a significant find."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Significant indeed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Fabregues, whose accolades have included two French knighthoods and a prestigious Meilleur Ouvrier de France, has been cooking since the age of six.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">He began by making pates with his grandmother and his culinary pedigree dates back to Napoleonic days, when his great-great-great grandmother cooked for Napoleon's army during its Italian campaign.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">At 15, he went on to be an apprentice in Bordeaux and trained under late chef Jean Delaveyne, a proponent of nouvelle cuisine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">The production of truffles in WA has increased significantly over the years, from only a few in Manjimup in 2003 to nearly two tonnes last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">It has surpassed production in Tasmania and, with more truffieres being established in the area, looks set to be a major export commodity. In the meantime, Fabregues has set his sights on another trophy - the elusive and extremely expensive white truffle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"Yes, as if I am not busy enough," he laughs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"I planted for white truffles last September, so now we have the long wait of seven years to see if our gamble has paid off. It is hard yakka growing truffles, conditions have to be perfect."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">This year at the Mundaring Truffle Festival - which was his brainchild - Fabregues will be run off his feet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">"I am very, very busy preparing everything leading up to the festival," he says.</span></div>
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Published articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-13167297957815788952011-03-23T20:34:00.000-07:002014-07-08T06:09:47.899-07:00The West Australian: March 2011<div style="color: #333333; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">She’s arguably the domestic goddess of our time and can turn the seemingly innocuous task of hulling a punnet of strawberries into, well, something a little more alluring.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">She’s Nigella Lawson – journalist, critic, author, cook, mother and ardent foodie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">“When I was 16 or so, I went to Paris – more because of the travel rather than food really - and I was fascinated in how the French cooked,” Ms Lawson says of her first independent foray into food.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Born into a refined family – her father is a baron and was chancellor of the exchequer to Margaret Thatcher while her mother was heiress to a business empire – Nigella had a somewhat conflicted relationship with food while growing up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“I come from a family who are intensely involved in food, and when I was very young I wasn’t interested, but that was probably because I was brought up very strictly. It was ‘you will eat this and if you don’t finish it you will sit there until it’s cold and it will be brought back the next day’. It was that sort of way. There was no food-hiding – my mother had complete laser-vision. But I did get interested in food, and I had no idea it would become my life.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“I’ve previously been to Sydney as well as to Queensland, where I went on a boat through the Whitsundays with the kids. But I haven’t been to Melbourne before”, she says.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“I would love to. Why I’m not traveling much on this visit is because I’ve left the kids at home, so I’ve kept it short. But they loved Australia, and I’d love to do more traveling. The thing is, it’s such a huge country so you’ve got to have time. I love the huge sky of Australia, and the light. So you call it WA over there, then, and not Western Australia? You’re going to have to map me out an itinerary and tell me when’s the best time to go. I don’t like intense heat. I would have to wear a hat and a sunscreen factor of one hundred. Oh god, I can’t wait. Go on, fire away, I’m too busy planning my holiday now.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Nigella has sold millions of cookbooks and her many television series are broadcast in countries all over the world. Now, she feels, it’s time to re-stock.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Neil has visited Western Australia before, but never so much as he has over the past few months, when he’s been sourcing local staff and suppliers for the new eatery. Despite some of Neil’s mainstay menu items, such as his much-feted wagyu burger, being sourced from the Eastern states, much of what the Perth kitchen will be sending out will be local.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">“Out of the entire menu we’ll bring over our 36 month grass-fed beef from Tasmania, and David Blackmore’s wagyu beef (in Victoria) because we buy whole bodies and they really are quite unique to the Rockpool Bar & Grill brand,” says Neil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">“But we will be sourcing our yearling out of the South-West here in Western Australia from Della Gola Farm, and we are really excited about that. We tasted some of it and we thought it was great. We’ll be dry-ageing that for about forty to fifty days and we’ll be doing ribs and T-bones and sirloin from them. And that will complete the three – we only ever carry three types of beef.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Fresh, seasonal produce is the latest catch-cry for many chefs these days, but only a handful would be able to proclaim they grow their own fruit and veg. The team at upscale restaurant and bar 1907 do just that, and have raised the sustainability stakes just that little bit higher by going the organic, heirloom route and buying a farm to do it all on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">“The property is up in Toodyay and it’s quite big,” says 1907’s executive chef Nick French.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">The farm property, called ‘The Range’, is an historic homestead and ballroom built in 1897 that is currently being restored. Over the years, it has produced prize-winning cattle, sheep, wool and thoroughbred horses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">The farm was originally the brainchild of the owner of 1907, who bought the property after being inspired by the ‘paddock to plate’ philosophy used in so many restaurants around the world. The rest of the eatery’s staff quickly locked onto the idea and now it involves everybody, both in front and back of house. As Nick points out, however, it still has a ways to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">To date, there are over 200 different types of fruit and vegetables grown on the farm, with a particular focus on heirloom varieties. A dedicated father and son team, Brian and Todd Gilsenan, work on the farm to produce as many ingredients as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">“In the future, we are basically looking to expand. We will be putting in some nice organic fruit trees, such as apples and citrus. And we’re also going to move towards chickens as well once we’ve got established so we’ll have eggs. It’s very exciting, and so much better than opening boxes of produce.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">In 2011, the restaurant intends to host a number of long-table field lunches and dinners in order to highlight the farm’s fresh, seasonal produce and are currently working on sourcing local suppliers so that all other produce comes from within a 50km range.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">For on-line article, go to <a href="http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/lifestyle/a/-/lifestyle/8409929/upscale-restaurant-grows-its-own/">Fresh</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Genesis in the Hills is a vegetarian hideaway hotspot doing brisk trade in Roleystone. It sits on the same road that leads into Araluen, and lots of pretty adjectives spring to mind while following its path: tranquil, natural, healthy, abundant. All the same words, really, that apply to the eatery. Genesis literally translates to mean ‘coming into being’ or, as Rivka Cohen - one half of Genesis - puts it, “the infinity of possibility”. </span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">“We chose the name Genesis because it is from the Hebrew language, and ‘Genesis’ in Hebrew means ‘the beginning of creative potential’,” she says. </span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">“It’s the beginning of things, where potential is brought to life. It is a very, very big word in Hebrew.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Ably commandeered by Rivka, Genesis’s cook, and her musically gifted big sister Ita Goldberger-Amran, the restaurant has been running since September 2007 and proved to be a massive hit with locals. But the rest of Perth is quickly catching on.</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">“We have people coming from everywhere now, from Fremantle to Joondalup,” says Ita. </span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Formerly an artist’s dwelling, the gorgeous nine acre site caught the sisters’ eye in December 2003 and they decided to escape the city to embark on a tree-change journey. It took two years to plan and store the property. They renovated the house, which Ita had been living in, into a restaurant, and then built another house, being were ever-mindful to retain the peace and tranquility of the area. </span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">“There’s lots of nature, lots of orchards and also a strong sense of community, which I really missed in City Beach, where I was living before. And I wanted to have contact with people. There is lots of variety – artists, creative people, just a beautiful mixture of people. Roleystone is the right place for us”.</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">The sisters moved from Israel to Perth ten years ago after the sisters were at a personal crossroads, and they emigrated to Australia in search of peace and a better quality of life. Rivka decided that it was more than just her address that needed a tweak.</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">“I was once an economist, and then I was a Maths teacher for a while,” she says.</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Growing up in a semi-rural village in Israel, where their father ran a vineyard, the two women were privy to enormous cultural influences from their family. They had a Turkish grandfather, a Spanish grandmother, and their mother was born in Bulgaria. Their father was a baker from central Europe, with a Hungarian and Czechoslovakian background. The family table was a place for lively discussion, with languages jumping between Bulgarian, Jewish-Spanish-Latino, Hungarian, Russian and Yiddish.</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">“The neighbours were all Holocaust survivors who ended up in Israel after the war, so everybody spoke another language, and the children were all in and out of each other’s houses influencing each other.” </span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">With such an eclectic history, it was only natural that the sisters would go on to be profoundly affected by their upbringing. But it is the food they were raised on as children that they seem to remember most fondly.</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">“My favourite dishes from my mother were her different aubergine dishes that she got from Bulgaria. People call it baba ganoush. And her cakes, of course. Her cakes were notorious. Everybody came to eat them. School was only two hundred metres from where we lived, so everybody would ask, ‘Oh, can we come to your house to see what cakes your mother has baked?’ So during the breaks we would all go to my mother’s kitchen, eat her cake and then go back to school. It was so wonderful.”</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">“My Mum is a beautiful cook, she actually just celebrated her 80th birthday. She immigrated with our families here. Mum is from the Balkan area in Bulgaria, and there are lots of things I’ve learned from her. She is very much into what is called the philosophy of how you work, what you do, and how you cook. She showed me how to work locally, work with local produce, and work seasonally. Trying to make food as fresh and as healthy as you can”. </span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Food is abundant in this neck of the woods, with the property being home to a good-sized herb garden and an orchard of around sixty fruit trees. There is an impressive chicken pen containing forty laying hens, who are all very grateful for the restaurant’s leftovers. And what the property does not provide, the local community does.</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">“With the produce that we have access to, the possibilities and the flavours of vegetarian food are just as endless as non-vegetarian food,” says Rivka.</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">“For example, I’ve got a huge amount of figs in the area. So in the times of the figs I do millions of things with them. I stuff them with cheese. I make cakes. I make pies. I make jams. There is a local Italian lady who takes them, cuts them in the middle and dries them, and they are the most delicious figs ever. And then we have a beautiful orchard of chestnuts. So I make chestnut cakes and chestnut cream. It’s really important to explain the contribution of these things to the flavours of dishes. We work very much by what we actually find in the season, the seasons completely inspire me. Many people don’t know what to do with produce such as figs, quince and pomegranates. So they just bring it in. So we have a lot of cooperation with the local people. For me, Genesis is not just a business. It’s a way of life.” </span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">The neighborhood is of paramount importance to the pair, who believe Genesis is less of a restaurant than a haven for the community. Rivka sources much of the restaurant’s produce from the surrounding area, such as oils, bread, milk, cheese and coffee. Local art exhibitions are held at the property once a month, as are jazz nights featuring local musicians. </span>
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</span> <span style="font-family: arial;">Genesis in the Hills is at 124 Croyden Road Roleystone. For bookings and more information, telephone 9397 7799 or go to </span><link href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Jen/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:2; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 268435456 0 0 -2147483648 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} h1 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:1; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning:0pt; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} h2 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:2; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoBodyText, li.MsoBodyText, div.MsoBodyText {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-style:italic;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} /* List Definitions */ @list l0 {mso-list-id:1068502365; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:-846158154 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} @list l1 {mso-list-id:1870146459; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:1274302580 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;} @list l1:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} @list l2 {mso-list-id:1983348395; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:-1866280302 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;} @list l2:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} </style> </div>
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</span> Published articles and pics by Jenny Susanto-Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13348124345218427811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8651590072454286557.post-91548459551949099272010-09-03T19:57:00.000-07:002014-07-08T06:21:13.808-07:00Scoop Magazine, Spring 2010<link href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Jen/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotoptimizeforbrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:2; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:0 268435456 0 0 -2147483648 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} h1 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:1; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-font-kerning:0pt; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} h2 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:2; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial;} h3 {mso-style-next:Normal; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; page-break-after:avoid; mso-outline-level:3; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoBodyText, li.MsoBodyText, div.MsoBodyText {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} p.MsoBodyText2, li.MsoBodyText2, div.MsoBodyText2 {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:justify; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Arial; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:green;} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:#FF0099; mso-text-animation:none; text-decoration:none; text-underline:none; text-decoration:none; text-line-through:none;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} /* List Definitions */ @list l0 {mso-list-id:1363704862; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:-546137974 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;} @list l0:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} @list l1 {mso-list-id:1606696003; mso-list-type:hybrid; mso-list-template-ids:482912192 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693 67698689 67698691 67698693;} @list l1:level1 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:; mso-level-tab-stop:.5in; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-.25in; font-family:Symbol;} ol {margin-bottom:0in;} ul {margin-bottom:0in;} </style> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">It’s pretty tough to find anybody who has anything even remotely left-of-centre to say about Amelia Park supreme-o, Peter Walsh. Not that anyone would want to. The former farmer is at the top of his game these days and shows no sign of slowing down any time soon. Having just returned from one of many overseas trips, the spry fifty-something year old is the proud owner of one of the fastest-growing enterprises in the State.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Born in 2002, Amelia Park is a fairly recent arrival to the business scene, but the land on which it sits has been in the Walsh family since 1957. Back then, the farm was essentially a beef and lamb meat processing plant, but under the helmsmanship of Peter and brother Greg the company has re-packaged itself into Amelia Park. The business has invested heavily in another passion of the Walsh family – horse racing - and the property houses state-of-the-art horse facilities, including a lakeside training track, horse adjisting, syndicates, a breeding program and a horse swimming pool. It also provides top-notch beef and lamb to some of the best-known restaurants and hotels in the country and exports to a good part of the world as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Really, you think that would be enough for even the most manic among us. But Peter’s not exactly the kind of guy to sit back and put his feet up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The best indeed. Enter multi-award winning chef Neal Jackson, head honcho of one of Perth’s most respected restaurants, Jackson’s. The pair met up twelve years ago when Neal established the now-famed eatery and Peter became a silent partner. And now Neal’s about to return the favour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">“He’s a real perfectionist and is going to make up all the flavours that will match our lamb and beef, such as sauces and marinades. We’re sending him off to China this week, right out to the Mongolian border, where there are a lot of lambs with different tastes and flavours and cuts. And he will be studying all that to see if we can relate it back to what we’re doing here. Then we’ll start looking into olive oil with him. And, down the track, there will also be chocolate. Neal’s a multiple award winner, and we are keen to go to the next level with him.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">There’s that word again. And oh yes, did we mention Peter has also started producing wine? Daniela just happens to be married to winemaker Jeremy Gordon, recent winner of the esteemed Jimmy Watson trophy and former co-owner and founder of Flametree in Margaret River. Amelia Park Wines has now launched, with their varieties including a cabernet merlot, a shiraz and a sauvignon blanc semillon. The label is now in the process of going global, with many Sydney hotels and restaurants stocking their wines and exports already underway to China, Mauritius and the UK. When Amelia Park launches in September, Jeremy and Daniella will be winging their way over to the UK to spruik their wines in London. According to Peter, people are buying it without even tasting because they know of Jeremy’s excellent reputation in the industry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">At this stage however, it is the quality of Amelia Park’s lamb and beef products that is making the most noise. With strict quality assurance in place, a mere 30% of the meat received from breeders passes the tight selection criteria. And it’s all West Australian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">“They’ve got their feeding regime correct, so it’s a very clean product. And the quality is second-to-none. There is a selection criteria that it has to fit into. We start at the top, and the criteria works back from there. So our beef carcass ranges from 220kg to 280kg bodies. There has to be a fat depth of no more than 8mm, which is very good. Then there’s the meat colour criteria and the fat colour critiera. And that’s only selected from the top 30% of the beef every day. So we’re getting the best of the best. And that’s the body that suits what we want to do. We want to produce the best beef in Australia.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">“Amelia Park is an amazing place. It’s just fantastic what Peter’s done down there. It’s like heaven on Earth for horses and humans. He was a very hard worker when he was younger and he’s still working just as hard now. He’s a very entrepreneurial person.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">But at the end of the day, it is Peter’s love for the industry he was born into that has him looking to the horizon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">“We have been in this industry for a long time and want to continue being in it for a long time,” he reflects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">“And we just want to keep being motivated. Being surrounded by top people really helps keep up that motivation. We believe having multi-award winners around us who believe in perfection and have the passion that we do, that is our next step.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">And what could possibly be next, one might wonder. A day spa, perhaps? A private resort in Bali? No, really.</span></div>
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