The annual Floriade flower festival (September 17-October 16) in Australia’s capital, Canberra, has as its theme for 2011, “a feast for the senses.” Every day in October, the senses will be tempted by culinary demonstrations during Floriade that include a pantry marquee, well-known chefs creating food treats, and stalls selling food and beverages.
Some of the highlights include:
(1) October 1: Making Gnocchi – Bicicletta Restaurant staff (Diamant Hotel) demonstrate homemade pasta, the gnocchi
(2) October 1 and 7: Truffles – Capital Country Truffle Festival experts demonstrate the gourmet truffle
(3) October 2: Tasty Science Show – staff of Questacon (Canberra’s science interactive museum) demonstrate the science and technology of the tongue
(4) October 2-3: Latin America Feast – Carnival in the Park present a taste of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and more
(5) October 4: The Perfect Macaron – Owen from the Dream Cuisine demonstrates the art of making macaron
(6) October 4 and 11: Chocolate – Robyn Rowe creates couverture chocolates
(7) October 4, 6-9, 11: Decorating Cupcakes – Emma McMahan of Sugar and Slice demonstrates decorating the perfect cupcake
(8) October 4-6 and 11: Diversity of Food – local farmers and chefs demonstrate using biodynamic produce (Sam Stratham), cooking without flour (Sam Stratham), beef meals (John Walker), quick and easy meals (Sue Anderson), and making fresh pasta (Sue Icemenes)
(9) October 5, 9 and 11: Seafood Smorgasbord – Blue Seas demonstrates how to prepare and cook seafood
(10) October 6-7: Cheese – Cheeselinks demonstrates how to make Feta, Romano, Parmesan and Camembert cheeses
(11) October 8 and 15: Centenary of Canberra Cake – Janet Jeffs demonstrates out to cook Canberra’s 100th anniversary cake (all ingredients sourced within a 100-mile, 160 kilometre, radius of Canberra)
(12) October 8-10: Beechworth Honey – live displays with bees producing honey with samples of Australian honey products
(13) October 11-13: The Clever Chefs – Mike Scheumann of the National Convention Centre and Paul Butler of the National Press Club of Australia demonstrate how to use leftovers to avoid wasting food
(14) October 12-13: Culinary Skills – Canberra Institute of Technology chefs demonstrate cooking techniques
(15) October 15: The Black Olive – Mark Olive demonstrates contemporary outback flavours
MARTINA NICOLLS
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MARTINA NICOLLS is an international human rights-based consultant in education, healing and wellbeing, peace and stabilization, foreign aid audits and evaluations, and the author of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).
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