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WEB EXTRAS online only.

A longer life for King Island's UHT milk

Snow Food - the other bits of Mark Kelly's overview.Ski Lunch - more food for the slopes- Polenta Grassa

Print edition errors and omissions -ooops!

Feedback - (blush)

TV promo clips - Ueli & Stephen

Competition Winners


The King Island Cheese Compendium
The definitive guide, with six pages of complete tasting notes from the cheese-maker Ueli Berger.

Meat isle - Selling the sizzle
Was that really King Island beef you had for dinner? Did you have to chew?


Amazing crays and oysters, and abalone, and octopus.. King Island's clear waters produce spectacular seafood
"People laugh and suggest that they’re 'stuck in the eighties', although
it seems less 'stuck' than holding on to values that small towns on the mainland have lost and would envy."
Harvesting the storm
King Island's kelpers have a reputation for being as wild as the storms that provide their livelihood.
The Originals
From the trenches to King Island: soldier settlers were battlers from the beginning.
The Grassy Story
Established when mining was more important than milk, can a town have a food-led recovery?
A King Island love story
How a local lass fell in love with someone on the telly and lived happily ever after. Peta and Dennis Klumpp make a range of sauces and relishes from the local kelp.
INTRODUCTION
If this is pizza, it must be Friday
The bakery does pizza on Friday nights, but you won't find a McDonalds anywhere. It's that kind of place.

Fast food for a slow island
How many bakery pie cabinets offer crayfish, shark and wallaby alongside the steak and kidney? ~ Cloudjuice Water so pure, it's worth bottling. ~To each, his eggs As the number of people taking someone else’s eggs from her mailbox grew, Sandy Holloway decided she needed name tags. ~ Home sweet (honey) home There's plenty of milk on the island, but where's the honey? ~ Preserving tradition On an island of experienced home jam makers, picking favourites is a religious experience.  ~ A taste for solitude King Island Dairy's cheese-maker Ueli Berger has wild bears in his house, and he couldn’t be happier. ~ Island Spirit Potter, entrepreneur and Citizen of the Year, Caroline Kininmonth is a fervent promoter of the island and its produce ~ Black Board Special Stephen Russell cooks fresh, fine and local at the Grassy Club.
Guide to King Island
Why you’ll want to go, what to expect when you get there and your essential contact list.
Continually updated and corrected,
here on the website.
REGULAR SECTIONS
Harvest We've gathered together the goods on products, places and experiences to check out this winter. Events what's happening, Farmers' markets, and the National Conference, Not the wine story  So far no-one has successfully produced a King Island wine Wine with Christina Tulloch who ask us to 'remember Chardonnay'. Reviews three books with 'eat' in their titles, Peter Cotton reviews Food TV, Websites - All the links in one place -Here!, Refrigerate after opening - Jan O'Connell's kitchen lament. Gawen Rudder is our Guest columnist and ponders what is Real Food.
 
 

 

 

 

   
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