- Jill Dyson,
- Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia
- Click on the link to read Jill's latest blog post. Jill has been running FoodPath in the Southern Highlands of NSW with her partner Nick since April 2010. They have grown the business to a level where they now include a range of activities including tours, workshops and collaboration with others (cooking schools, wineries, etc). During the past 10 years Jill and Nick have got to know the local producers and continue to promote and support these local small businesses. They have organised and run many food related activities including taste education workshops and producer visits. It was after they organised a successful tour for a group of chefs from some of the best restaurants in Sydney that they realised they could turn their interest into a business - and this led to the setting up of FoodPath - Culinary Tours with a Difference. Now Jill and Nick are working closely with Southern Highlands Tourism and Wingecarribee Council to help raise the profile of their area as a food destination where everyone will benefit - tourists, local consumers and the producers themselves.
Monday, April 5, 2010
How exciting - Elise Pascoe was the first person to book in to our first tour scheduled for Sat 17 April - in 2 weeks time! You will probably remember that Elise was associated with the Good Living Section of the Sydney Morning herald for many years.What a wonderful start!
We have had an enthusiastic response from many friends and others we have contacted by email and already our April and our May tours are filling up.
Support like this has been very encouraging and we are looking forward to our first tour.
Alfonso Ales, Chef at Bilsons Restaurant has also wished us well and offered his support. He agreed that I could tell you what he wrote after the day we organised for him and several other chefs last September.
"Mon 14 Sept 2009
Hi Jill,
Once again thank you very much for organising the visits yesterday, It
was very interesting and we all spent a beautiful day with you and Nick.
The boys were exhausted at the end but very happy after all that they
experienced.
Thank you so much.
Kind regards.
Alfonso"
