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One
of Adelaide’s nicknames is the Festival City. Most famous
of all is the Adelaide Music Festival, held biennially, in even
years.
But, in the
years they don’t hold the Adelaide Music Festival, every October
they have a celebration dear to the Australian heart: The Adelaide Food
Festival or, as it's officially called, Tasting Australia!I decided
to visit Adelaide in October, 2003, and found the Food Festival would
be held at that time. One day I heard chef Elizabeth Chong lecturing
and giving a demonstration in the Central Market, where I stopped off
to buy some apples and a bar of chocolate. I was impressed with her view
that this was the best market she'd seen anywhere, and with all that
fresh local produce on offer, she couldn't see why anyone living in Adelaide
would need a freezer, except to keep ice-cream!The
main Festival is held in Elder Park. The founder of the city, Col. William
Light, decreed back in 1830 that his mile-square, grid-iron city centre
would be completely surrounded by inviolable parkland. He probably didn’t
have festivals in mind, but his parks are ideal for them.I caught the
Hahn Premium Beer Festival in the park on the Thursday---not a beerfest
as we know it in Europe, but a lecture on beer appreciation and tasting---with
some samples thrown in, of course. I'd thoroughly recommend visitors
to Western Australia to try Rogers' Amber Ale from the 'Little Creatures'
Brewery in Freemantle ... pity it's not more widely available! I also went
to a symposium on cooking with beer conducted by Peter Howard and Bill
Taylor. I spoke to Bill Taylor afterwards, and when I mentioned I'd visited
Belgium several times in the last couple of years, he said I should have
been giving the lecture to him! The
'Feast for the Senses' on the Sunday was rather a disappointment ---rather
than exhibitors handing out nibble-sized free samples of their product,
they were selling meal-sized portions. I don't object to paying for my
food, but how many meals can you eat in an afternoon?But, I did
get a taste of the end product of a demonstration of Indian cookery by
Ragini Dey, of the 'Spice Kitchen' in Marryatville ... a hop and a skip
(well, a block) from where I lived 40 years ago! She's such a jolly lady,
it's infectious, and I bitterly regret not having the time to visit her
restaurant.Everyone seemed
to be having a good time, picnicking on the grass and, of course, drinking.
The trad jazz band was good, but the Venetian gondola looked a little
out of place on Torrens Lake! All
this food made me hungry, but I couldn't really decide what I wanted
to eat from all that was on offer, so...I simply bought what Australians
are reputed to live off; a 'Famous Aussie Meat Pie'! Don’t ask
what goes into it. Writer Doug Lansky once did, and was told, ‘Meat,
of course!’‘Tasting
Australia’ happens every two years, on odd-numbered years, in October.
Check out www.tasting-australia.com.au closer
to the time.
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The
main Festival is held in Elder Park. The founder of the city, Col. William
Light, decreed back in 1830 that his mile-square, grid-iron city centre
would be completely surrounded by inviolable parkland. He probably didn’t
have festivals in mind, but his parks are ideal for them.
I caught the
Hahn Premium Beer Festival in the park on the Thursday---not a beerfest
as we know it in Europe, but a lecture on beer appreciation and tasting---with
some samples thrown in, of course. I'd thoroughly recommend visitors
to Western Australia to try Rogers' Amber Ale from the 'Little Creatures'
Brewery in Freemantle ... pity it's not more widely available!
I also went
to a symposium on cooking with beer conducted by Peter Howard and Bill
Taylor. I spoke to Bill Taylor afterwards, and when I mentioned I'd visited
Belgium several times in the last couple of years, he said I should have
been giving the lecture to him!
The
'Feast for the Senses' on the Sunday was rather a disappointment ---rather
than exhibitors handing out nibble-sized free samples of their product,
they were selling meal-sized portions. I don't object to paying for my
food, but how many meals can you eat in an afternoon?
But, I did
get a taste of the end product of a demonstration of Indian cookery by
Ragini Dey, of the 'Spice Kitchen' in Marryatville ... a hop and a skip
(well, a block) from where I lived 40 years ago! She's such a jolly lady,
it's infectious, and I bitterly regret not having the time to visit her
restaurant.
Everyone seemed
to be having a good time, picnicking on the grass and, of course, drinking.
The trad jazz band was good, but the Venetian gondola looked a little
out of place on Torrens Lake!
All
this food made me hungry, but I couldn't really decide what I wanted
to eat from all that was on offer, so...I simply bought what Australians
are reputed to live off; a 'Famous Aussie Meat Pie'! Don’t ask
what goes into it. Writer Doug Lansky once did, and was told, ‘Meat,
of course!’
‘Tasting
Australia’ happens every two years, on odd-numbered years, in October.
Check out www.tasting-australia.com.au closer
to the time.
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