September 04 2015
"The excitement of making our cider actually reminds me of my plan 40 years ago when we first came to the Barossa. I’m sure many of you know that it was Colin’s vision to farm pheasants that led us to leave Sydney, my original hometown, to come to South Australia and buying an existing vineyard (after several hickups of course) the Barossa found us and we began farming the pheasants which led to our whole food journey. However, it was only while making cider, when I was checking on the final ferment that I admitted that my original plan had been to study Oenology at Roseworthy College when we came to South Australia. The fact that I’d left school at 14, the fact that any physics and chemistry I had studied up to then was totally inadequate for winemaking meant that it actually never happened, and the luck of my life was that I found what I wanted to do more than anything else purely out of necessity, given we were farming pheasants and no one knew how to cook them and it was second nature to me. The rest is history." - Maggie Read the rest...
September 01 2015
One Sunday afternoon was spent at the High Tea Fundraiser with Professor Ralph Martins & McCusker Alzheimer's Research Foundation. Professor Ralph Martins, expert and researcher of Alzheimer's disease spoke about his work to a group of around 190 people and I had the chance to discuss the work of my Foundation and aged care food awareness. - Maggie Read the rest...
August 31 2015
"Some of my favourite produce is Winter grown – Cavolo Nero, an absolute essential to her Winter cooking these days, Leeks; picked young and tender, Jerusalem Artichokes; pristine and white when freshly dug up, Parsnip; never needing peeling when fresh from the garden, and Witlof; bitter and cleansing at the same time. Keep a keen eye out for these beautiful greens before they disappear with the change of season." - Maggie Read the rest...
August 30 2015
Colin and I had dinner last week at Lyrics Room at the Festival Centre for the 50th anniversary of the Churchill Fellowship Trust. Colin won a fellowship in 1978 and it truly was the beginning of our journey in food. The dinner itself was for a group of 120 incredibly diverse, eclectic people, who were past and current Churchill Fellows. Read the rest...
August 28 2015
On Saturday night I went to the West Australian Symphony Orchestra where Asher Fisch was conducting Brahms’ Double Concerto, a musical marriage and a radiant symphony by husband and wife soloists Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth. Read the rest...
