Desert lime olive oil, quandong candies, lemon myrtle beer: West Australians gave a million international visitors a unique taste of our wide brown land at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, …
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Bush booze: Indigenous Australian botanicals make a splash in Italy
Lemon myrtle, wattle seed, sea parsley, bush mint: they’re not the usual ingredients you’d expect to find listed on the back of a bottle of rum, gin or an Italian-made …
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Italy beckons Western Australian indigenous youth in cultural food exchange
I’m thrilled to see my first news article about Terra Madre published on the official Terra Madre Salone del Gusto website. Click here to read the full article. A love …
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Portland’s hidden urban farms
Hidden a mere 15-minute drive from downtown Portland, in the city’s North East, is the unexpected semi-rural neighbourhood of Cully, which is brimming with urban farmlets growing food, flowers and …

Italy Mark II: Terra Madre 2018
I’m a big believer that if you open yourself up to opportunities and focus your energy in a chosen direction, the universe will provide. The trick is to recognise those …

Fecund figs
Ooh, it just sounds sexy doesn’t it? And figs, they look like, well, we all know what they look like. But pulling apart a soft, ripe fig, warm from the …

Good things come to those who wait
…or so the time-worn adage goes. And so, we will work, save and wait another year to go to Italy. I always knew it was a crazy ambitious goal: to …

Albany offers Food For Thought
My family and I recently took off on a four-day road trip to Albany, five hours south of Perth, ostensibly to attend the third annual Food For Thought Festival, which …