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Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie: Australia (Melbourne) Slow Food
posted on March 11th, 2008 by mellie in Uncategorized
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Came across a neat little video on the Gourmet magazine website (US) about the slowfood movement in Australia (in particular, Melbourne). It is a great showcase of some of the more interesting slow food producers in this state. You can view the video here.
If you plan on watching it, brace yourself for the vomit inducing intro that is almost a call to arms for foodies (take a deep breath Ed) -”We are called foodies, and the world of food is where we live.” Bleh…are we so marketable now?
Other than that it is a solid documentary with some very quotable quotes:
Michael Harden (Food Editor) - “Melbourne is the food capital of Australia. We are actual food fanatics. We are food obsessed.”
Brigette Hafner (Food Writer/Editor/Chef) on how she shops at markets “I never plan anything till I get there. We’ll just have a roam, see the vegetables and see what’s beautiful.” - that’s my kinda gal.
Miranda Sharp (Manager - Veg Out Farmers Market) on the current trend of supermarket advertising - “The advertising on at the moment is just obscene. Using the good, clean fair sort of images. Fresh, direct from the paddock to the supermarket. If that’s the case where do they get the wax and the stickers put on?!? It’s absolute bullshit!”
Christine Ross (Owner of the Yarra Valley’s East Wind Rare Breeds) on her litter of Large Black Pig piglets “They’re practicing to be sausages. They all line up, head to toe…”
Di McDonald (Nagambie Rhubarb grower) on stringing rhubarb “…some woman on a program here took the string off it and I almost put my foot through the TV! She’s taking the strings off and I’m saying ‘you stupid woman!’ I’ve gone to all this trouble to grow all this beautiful rhubarb and she’s pulling all the colour off it!”
James Broadway (Gertrude Street Enoteca) - “The slow food movement is proving to be a major political force.”
Mike Boudry (Goulburn Terrace Winery/Cellar Door) - “This is the more practical way of getting wine out of a barrel. There are more specialised devices for doing that, but I find a disposable syringe does an excellent job. It says single use only, but I think I’ve gone past it.”
Greta “rockstar winemaker” Moon (Goulburn Terrace Winery/Cellar Door) on her apple orchard “Mike likes to keep them all for us. He doesn’t like me selling them. It’s always a battle. He says ‘Don’t sell them. Don’t sell those ones, they’re my favourites’. He says that about all of them.”
Tagged:
Came across a neat little video on the Gourmet magazine website (US) about the slowfood movement in Australia (in particular, Melbourne). It is a great showcase of some of the more interesting slow food producers in this state. You can view the video here.
If you plan on watching it, brace yourself for the vomit inducing intro that is almost a call to arms for foodies (take a deep breath Ed) -”We are called foodies, and the world of food is where we live.” Bleh…are we so marketable now?
Other than that it is a solid documentary with some very quotable quotes:
Michael Harden (Food Editor) - “Melbourne is the food capital of Australia. We are actual food fanatics. We are food obsessed.”
Brigette Hafner (Food Writer/Editor/Chef) on how she shops at markets “I never plan anything till I get there. We’ll just have a roam, see the vegetables and see what’s beautiful.” - that’s my kinda gal.
Miranda Sharp (Manager - Veg Out Farmers Market) on the current trend of supermarket advertising - “The advertising on at the moment is just obscene. Using the good, clean fair sort of images. Fresh, direct from the paddock to the supermarket. If that’s the case where do they get the wax and the stickers put on?!? It’s absolute bullshit!”
Christine Ross (Owner of the Yarra Valley’s East Wind Rare Breeds) on her litter of Large Black Pig piglets “They’re practicing to be sausages. They all line up, head to toe…”
Di McDonald (Nagambie Rhubarb grower) on stringing rhubarb “…some woman on a program here took the string off it and I almost put my foot through the TV! She’s taking the strings off and I’m saying ‘you stupid woman!’ I’ve gone to all this trouble to grow all this beautiful rhubarb and she’s pulling all the colour off it!”
James Broadway (Gertrude Street Enoteca) - “The slow food movement is proving to be a major political force.”
Mike Boudry (Goulburn Terrace Winery/Cellar Door) - “This is the more practical way of getting wine out of a barrel. There are more specialised devices for doing that, but I find a disposable syringe does an excellent job. It says single use only, but I think I’ve gone past it.”
Greta “rockstar winemaker” Moon (Goulburn Terrace Winery/Cellar Door) on her apple orchard “Mike likes to keep them all for us. He doesn’t like me selling them. It’s always a battle. He says ‘Don’t sell them. Don’t sell those ones, they’re my favourites’. He says that about all of them.”
