Join Jill and Nick as they take you behind the scenes to see where your food actually comes from!

Tomorrow is Celebration Sunday at Biota Dining, one of our special restaurants in the Southern Highlands.
This falls on the last Sunday of the month and we come together to celebrate our local produce. We visit a great little Produce Market in the restaurant garden then share lunch together at a long table in the restaurant.

FoodPath is fortunate to have a communal table at the restaurant where you can join us and enjoy the company of like minded people - while we enjoy a 3 course lunch of tasting platters including local produce in season. For example Redleaf farm at Fitzroy Falls provides the suckling pig that is spit roasted for lunch.

This is proving very popular with our FoodPath customers with several people coming back again and again. we are taking bookings as far ahead as November - so let us know if you would like to join us? We are now limiting our numbers to 14 to offer a more personal experience.
Date: Last Sunday of the month
Time: 10.30 Market Tour in the garden
Price: $55 adults, $28 children
Contact us from www.foodpath.com.au to book

We were happy to be invited by Provodore Ian Feary to see his Cheese Room at The Old Cheese Factory at Robertson yesterday. Ian has had a successful business in the Southern Highlands for many years now, but has only recently taken over the lease of the cheese section of the Old Cheese Factory.

Ian Feary (right) with his mother Christina and FoodPath's Nick.

Friends and customers enjoying a tasting of Ian's great products and ordering our Christmas hams.

Many of us have fond memories of visiting the cheese factory in years gone by and buying Roberston cheddar. Do you also remember Tilba cheese, Bega cheese, Bodalla cheese from down the South Coast? All good cheddars sorely missed.
Well it is nice to see a return to cheese making in the Southern Highlands, and Robertson in particular establishing itself as a Cheese Centre.
We now have Small Cow Cheese farm nearby, Zoe Brogan at The Old Cheese Factory making goats' milk cheese (and also a range of fresh butters made from Jersey cream) and Michael and Cressida McNamara nearby planning to launch their sheep's milk cheese next year. Fabulous!

Zoe with Sam. Zoe makes goats' milk cheese and runs a fresh produce store in the Old Cheese Factory with her parents.

The Robertson Show has introduced a cheese category in their program, so having Ian take over the Cheese Room at The Old Cheese Factory is another step in the right direction!

Natasha presented her Eling Forest wines

Natasha had a range of wines on hand for us to taste from her family's vineyard, winery and cellar door at Eling Forest, where the wine maker is Michelle Crocket. We enjoy a glass of Eling Forest wine on our FoodPath food tours when we have lunch at this beautiful winery.

Last night was the first of a series of seasonal "Cool Flavours" dinners planned by the newly revamped Southern Highlands Food and Wine group. This was a Winter Regional Dinner held at Southern Highland Wines.

FoodPath's Nick Padol was asked to be MC for the night, commenting on the food that came from our local producers.
There was a good crowd - 95 people in total.

A wide range of cool climate Southern Highlands wines were selected to match the food by Will Matthews, Wine Consultant who gave an interesting talk.
Products used included cheese from Small Cow Farm, tangello infused olive oil from Sutton Forest Olives, quail from Thirlmere poultry, exotic mushrooms from the Mushroom Tunnel in Mittagong, beef from Spring Hill Beef at Burrawang, barramundi from Infinity Fisheries at Bargo and apples from the historic Tennessee Orchard at Yerrinbool.

Most of these products are available at the Producers Markets in Bowral and Moss Vale.

FoodPath has a Farmers Market Tour which will take you to meet these producers and more. They will tell you about their products, give you a tasting and you can buy food knowing exactly where it is grown and who by. Pretty special?

Kylie Kwong was up in Bowral speaking at a lunch at the Centennial Restaurant on 7 July.

She was launching her new book "It Tastes Better" in which she writes about the many producers she has visited and who she buys product from.

Noel Arrold was amongst them with his exotic mushrooms.

She was pleased to hear we are running food tours and supporting local producers as she likes to do.