The Good Food and Wine Show Hangover
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My legs are aching when I walk, and I’m utterly exhausted, but that’s what I get for spending the last two days in Sydney at the Good Food and Wine Show.
My husband and I are food and wine nuts. We arrive as the show starts, and don’t leave until it ends for the day. But if you hope to see everything, that’s the only way to do it. As it stands we had to skip a lot of wineries and we missed some of the food stands too. But what we did see was awesome.
Gordon Ramsey was the star attraction this year, and it was apparent every time he stepped onto the book signing stage. It didn’t matter where you were when Gordon walked out, you’d know about it if you listened out for the cheers. There’s no denying he has charisma, but I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed by his toned down show. Swearing was minimal and it was all very safe. Still, the peppered lamb steaks he made looked incredible.
The Tobie Puttock/Matt Skinner food and wine matching show was much more to my liking. It all started well when I was chosen by my favourite Ready Steady Cook chef, Alistair McLeod, chose me to help him with the warm up games. Flipping coins isn’t exactly rocket science but it made me feel like a star and I got a bottle of wine and a kiss from Alistair for my trouble. The talk was very Australian, super accessible, and the tucker they served up looked delicious.
Our other booked engagement was the Gourmet Garden cooking school. I think my experience with this was very much shaped by the cow of an instructor my group received. I say instructor, but she really just gave us the recipe and left us to it. That is until she came back to tell us everything we’d done wrong. In actual fact, we learned more from the instructor at the next group over! Still somehow we muddled through and made some delicious chicken nori rolls. Our partners came up with the goods with some delicious citrus salmon and herbed potatoes. I’d probably do the cooking class again, but hope to hell that woman wasn’t in charge!
My husband and I came away with two trolleys full of stuff, and a few more bags besides. Our cupboards seriously look like we’re preparing for a natural disaster. But we will be eating very very well for months to come. We fell in love with cheese kransky from Hans, kangaroo prosciutto from Poacher’s Pantry in Canberra, and delicious shortbread from Tasmania. We’ve also scored some amazing nut-free peanut butter (as someone who suffers from a peanut allergy, I’m thrilled at the thought of trying satays!) and some yummy freshly squeezed lime cordial.
I can’t believe it’s all over for another year, but I can’t wait to do it all again in 2009!
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