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- 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.
Showing posts with label food preserving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food preserving. Show all posts
Monday, October 17, 2011
After nearly a year Steve Hogwood has decided to move his Preserving Workshops to Sydney. Sad news for us. However he has agreed to run workshops for FoodPath in the Highlands if we have a corporate or a group booking - minimum 12 people.
Our workshop next Sun 23 Oct is to be our last - so if you have been meaning to come, this is your chance! A Pickling Workshop from 10am - 1pm. Will be fun. Let us know if you want to book?
www.foodpath.com.au
Our workshop next Sun 23 Oct is to be our last - so if you have been meaning to come, this is your chance! A Pickling Workshop from 10am - 1pm. Will be fun. Let us know if you want to book?
www.foodpath.com.au
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Today we had another Fruit Bottling Workshop with Steve Hogwood from the 1910 Bottling Company and again everyone had a ball. The feedback was excellent! Some want to come back for more!
Steve has a range of topics he can teach - preserving lemons, pickle making, etc. Today they bottled tomatoes. It was nice to see everyone roll up their sleeves and get to work and have fun doing it.
The people in the group to-day came from far and wide - Huskisson, Falls Creek near Nowra, Currajong in the Blue Mtns, Sydney and on local - and you should have heard the chatter! They got on very well.
There is a real move back towards learning the old traditional skills and adapting them to or current times. Steve was full of information and all comments were extremely positive.
We are looking forward to the next one - on Sat 30 July, 10am - 1.30pm. Contact us from the website if you would like to come.
Steve has a range of topics he can teach - preserving lemons, pickle making, etc. Today they bottled tomatoes. It was nice to see everyone roll up their sleeves and get to work and have fun doing it.
The people in the group to-day came from far and wide - Huskisson, Falls Creek near Nowra, Currajong in the Blue Mtns, Sydney and on local - and you should have heard the chatter! They got on very well.
There is a real move back towards learning the old traditional skills and adapting them to or current times. Steve was full of information and all comments were extremely positive.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Our FoodPath Fruit Bottling Workshop on Sunday 29 May with Steve Hogwood of the 1910 Bottling Company was a great success. We have lots of great photos which speak for themselves.
Have had great feedback from the participants which was very gratifying.
The next workshop on Sun 26 June is almost full already. We have to limit numbers to 10.
During the workshop we had coffee from our local coffee roasters Rush Roasting and fresh roasted hazelnuts from our Farmers Market tour yesterday.
Plans are afoot to change the time of these workshops to accommodate those who are driving from far away. We plan to start this in July.
The new time will be 10am - 1.30 with a lunch break - and a lunch option for purchase, or you can bring your own. The lunch option is likely to be a Ploughmans lunch with Steve's pickles and local cheese, bread, wine.
More details about that when it is finalised.
Have had great feedback from the participants which was very gratifying.
During the workshop we had coffee from our local coffee roasters Rush Roasting and fresh roasted hazelnuts from our Farmers Market tour yesterday.
The new time will be 10am - 1.30 with a lunch break - and a lunch option for purchase, or you can bring your own. The lunch option is likely to be a Ploughmans lunch with Steve's pickles and local cheese, bread, wine.
More details about that when it is finalised.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Exciting news - Channel 7 is coming to the Southern Highlands next week to film one of our Fruit Bottling Workshops with Steve Hogwood, for their program Sydney Weekender!
This will take place at Howards Lane vineyard in their tasting rooms, a lovely setting looking out over the veranda to the vines and the bush beyond. Wallabies come down in the late afternoon to graze.
We have discovered a nice connection - there is a portrait on the wall of a lady called Sophie Corrie who owned the land at Howards lane vineyard in times gone by. She published one of the earliest books in Australia on fruit bottling and preserving in 1893 - and we are now running Fruit Bottling workshops there! A nice connection?
This will take place at Howards Lane vineyard in their tasting rooms, a lovely setting looking out over the veranda to the vines and the bush beyond. Wallabies come down in the late afternoon to graze.
We have discovered a nice connection - there is a portrait on the wall of a lady called Sophie Corrie who owned the land at Howards lane vineyard in times gone by. She published one of the earliest books in Australia on fruit bottling and preserving in 1893 - and we are now running Fruit Bottling workshops there! A nice connection?
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