It is my mission to get everyone to buy local produce and be supporters of their local farmers markets as its important to look after our little local producers. Pop along and see what's local and in season and sample some of the produce on offer. Great for helping with seasonal menus and reducing food miles. We quite often showcase local producers who are doing something different at our QLD FBI events. Check out our event calendar for the next QLD FBI and other foodie events.

On Thursday 29th April, local media met at Palmwoods for an event at the Gourmet Gardens facility.

Guests were welcomed by the CEO Nick White and treated to some nibbles prepared by celebrity chef Dominique Rizzo of Ready Steady Cook.

Guests were taken on a short tour of the state-of-the-art facility to view
the process that sees the organically grown herbs simply washed, chopped,
blended and packed into tubes to retain their fresh taste and nutrition.

Just a reminder to get your entry forms in for 2010 NGCH.
BEFORE 7TH MAY 2010

We are on FACEBOOK..check out the site for pictures and video and the latest information on the competition. To be eligible for entry, you must be an Australian resident, not older than 25 years on 30 September 2010 and form a team of two and decide on your team leader. Just follow the link below to website and down load the entry form and read all the entry criteria.

The seventh annual Noosa Food and Wine Festival was simply the best with live entertainment and a trip down memory lane - the Australian Bee Gees opened the festival and the incredible Rebecca O'Connor as Tina Turner to close. The whos who of food from around Australia mixed and mingled.

www.noosafoodandwine.com.au

A group of 40-year-old girlfriends discussed where they should meet for
dinner. Finally, it was agreed upon that they should meet at the Ocean View
Restaurant, because the waiters there were good looking and had buff bodies.

10 years later at 50-years-of-age, the group once again discussed where they
should meet for dinner. Finally, it was agreed that they should meet at the
Ocean View Restaurant, because the food there was very good and the wine
selection was good also.

Dear food lovers, please take a couple of minutes to do Foodies web-survey,
please click on one of the links below. Alternatively, you can go to the
School of Tourism website, and complete the survey from there. Please feel
free to send the following link to your foodie friends.

Survey

School of Tourism web-link: http://tourism.uq.edu.au/

Learn the secrets to organic, artisan sourdough, traditional baguette and delicious foccacia in this small, hands-on class of just 12, with renowned Brisbane baker Eric Ramonda.

Over four hours Eric will provide theory, a basic understanding of different flours and their applications, recipes and knowledge as well as showing how to score, kneed and mould bread and make a starter culture which each participant can then take home and use as their own.

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Indigenous to Mexico and Central America, avocado is a derivative of the Spanish word ahuacate which itself comes form the Aztec name ahuacatl, funny enough it is the word for testicle :)

Visit Brisbane have recently published a new interactive map and we need your help.

The map allows users to publish their favourite spot to the map along with images and video clips from YouTube.