Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. Calling all gourmands, 2010 Festival's gastronomy program on sale October 6!
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Mark your calendars, gourmands!
With 20 days remaining until tickets for the 2010 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival go on sale (6 October), the countdown is on!
The "new wave" of cutting-edge international master chefs and winemakers get together to cook, talk, eat and drink - and we're invited. Langham Melbourne MasterClass (20 and 21 March, 2010) will see the globe's spiciest chefs, New York darlings, a French baker who'll make every woman melt (with nary a skerrick of cream or butter), and a Michelin star-studded cast of characters converge on Australia's foodiest city...
Melbourne will become the centre of the foodie universe as MasterClass chefs and world-class winemakers spill out into the city's top restaurants, such as MoVida, Cumulus Inc., The Press Club and Embrasse, for once-in-a-lifetime dinners across the MasterClass weekend.
Full program and booking details, visit melbournefoodandwine.com.au from October 1 or pick up a copy of fest - your guide to Langham Melbourne MasterClass and the globe's hottest foodie trends, inside next month's Australian Gourmet Traveller (Nov issue) or Gourmet Traveller WINE (Oct/Nov issue).
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Meet out new Creative Directors
While we were sad to farewell Matt Preston as Creative Director earlier this year as we handed him over to Masterchef, the changing of the guard sees not one but four new directors bringing creative inspiration to our (kitchen) tables.
Creative Director, Global - Jill Dupleix
Back on home soil and with a long and successful international career in food writing, Jill provides input from a global perspective. We have Jill to thank for a dazzling Langham Melbourne MasterClass line-up and gorgeous prose in our first issue of fest.
Creative Director, Cultural - Tony Tan
Celebrated culinary teacher and food personality Tony Tan brings a multicultural and iconic Melbourne perspective to the role. Rumour has it Tony has been working on the long-awaited comeback of a Festival event favourite... stay tuned.
Creative Director, Regional and Sustainability - Richard Cornish
Investigative food journalist and long-time Festival supporter, Richard Cornish offers creative input from a sustainability and environmental perspective. This Festival, Richard will help bring our regions into the heart of the city, as well as work with the regions to dish up many delicious reasons for city-dwellers to visit regional Victoria.
Creative Director, Wine - Ben Edwards
Providing market intelligence on the wine industry, local and global, leading sommelier and wine expert Ben Edwards has decanted the world of wine into Acqua Panna Global Wine Experience and the sparkling new and very approachable Wine Retreat.
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Our daily fish
It's no surprise the Festivals regional program will see spectacular seafood dinners on either side of the bay, given that possibly the best eating fish in Australia is caught or harvested off our coastline, from Nelson in the state's far west to Mallacoota in East Gippsland. Victoria's fish are not the big tuna or marlin but more delicately fleshed seafood.
If you're like us and can't wait until March for your next feast of King George whiting, abalone, crayfish, flathead, mussels or squid, head to your local fishmonger and ask what's coming from Victorian waters - they can offer fish from waters somewhere off our coastline year round. Inland, Victoria yields a bounty of fish, from gummy shark (sold as flake), our magnificent inland eels, and Murray cod, Murray perch and barramundi farmed in clear water ponds. Put Victoria on Your Table tonight.
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WIN tickets to Julie & Julia starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Stanley Tucci!
The new movie Julie & Julia is based on the bestselling novel of the same name, in which the author (Julie Powell) takes on a year-long culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in the famous Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child and blog about her experiences to her new widely growing circle of cyber-friends. Julie & Julia intertwines the true stories of both women - Julie Powell (Amy Adams) and Julia Child (Meryl Streep) who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends...until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. Also starring Stanley Tucci and directed by Nora Ephron, Julie & Julia opens at cinemas everywhere on 8 October (with sneak previews 3 & 4 October).
To celebrate the release, Melbourne Food & Wine Festival have 20 double in-season passes to the film and 20 copies of the book My Life In France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme to give away. For your chance to win, email your full details to competitions@foodfest.com.au between 9.00-9.30am on Thursday 17 September with the heading "Julie & Julia."
Click here to view trailer: http://www.JulieandJulia.com.au
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Cheers,
The Festival Team
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Melbourne food and wine Festival
... back to home
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