TEA and terroir / Fri 03 Jul 2009 / taste workshop / join distinguished Melbourne tea merchant David Thompson for a tasting of india black, china white and burma oolong teas at Rochelle Adonis’ studio in Northbridge. Learn about tea’s fascinating and complex heritage and the effects of ‘terroir’: climatic conditions, altitude and picking time. Taste a china ‘emperor’ tea. Strictly limited to 20 participants. Fee $25 members, $30 friends. Please complete the booking form or email for information.

TASTE the orient / Sat 18 Jul 2009 / taste excursion / not quite a genuine bazaar experience, but as close as is possible in suburban Perth / a visit to a specialist Belmont grocer with Farangeez Ahmadi to learn about Iranian and other middle eastern foods. Free event, but please complete the booking form and email advice of your attendance. Note: this excursion was previously listed for Sat 20 Jun.

A SLURP of real milk – do different white milks taste different? Try your palate at Slow Food Perth’s good, clean and fair food marquee at this year’s Mundaring truffle festival on Sun 09 Aug. Can you taste the difference between supermarket home-brand milk and the real thing? Like a calf, suckle up and test your tasting skills against our panel’s – including a wine judge, an olive oil judge and a cheesemaker.

This is just one of Slow Food Perth’s activities at the 2009 festival. There will also be kids’ blindfold food tastings, our ‘brainfood’ memory tunnel, the Country Women’s Association’s classic sponge cakes, wood-fired pizza, wonderful coffee, and fascinating Slow Food information. Do you know what an ‘ort’ is?

Or come and participate in a debate: ‘Is it smarter for us to eat an organic orange from Spain or a conventionally-farmed orange from Chittering?’ Hear a discussion on food miles, genetic modification and what we eat. Participants will include Slow Food Perth co-leaders Pauline Tresise and Jamie Kronborg, organic farmer Annie Kavanagh and author Jude Bleureau in Mundaring old hall on Sun 09 Aug at 12:30pm.

More information
Mundaring truffle festival web
Slow Food Perth flyer

JUST as Jorge Luis Borges wrote of the roots of language in his prologue to El otro, el mismo, so it is with the truffle: ‘irrational, and of a magical nature’. Slow Food Perth invites you to join us for all that is irrational and magical about the truffle – with good food, wine, local community and conviviality at its heart – at our Mundaring truffle festival down-the-road lunch in Sculpture Park, Mundaring, on Saturday 08 August 2009. The menu, prepared by Terra Madre chef-delegate Vincenzo Velletri, is still being plotted on a tabletop, yet we can hint that it will most likely celebrate the renowned hunter-of-truffle – the pig – with rice, capsicum, rucola and other seasonal, edible wonders. Wine will come from Hills vineyards, with its selection arranged by Maxinne and Anto Sclanders of Cosham Wines and Patrick Bertola of Lion Mill.

On Sunday 09 August we encourage you to visit the Slow Food Perth’s ‘good, clean and fair food’ marquee at the festival and explore our ‘brainfood’ tunnel of food memories, participate in blindfold food tastings, enjoy exceptional wood-fired pizza and wonderful coffee, and learn more about ‘small, slow food’.

Lunch booking form PDF version or Word version. Information E Slow Food Perth.

Sep Sat 6th – Aroma, Sweetness, Body & Flavour: A Fiori Coffee Adventure