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WEB EXTRAS - online only or enhanced

The Guide - updated

Lynwood Preserves -Robbie Howard PDF 117k

The argument for Cafe gardens + Interview Joyce Wilkie and Michael Plane

Read Bryan Martin's (the winemaker) story

Feedback - (blush)

TV promo clip

Errors and Omissions
-Ooops

Photographer Jeremy Rozdarz's Grazing food shots.

The ex-Lynwood Cafe gardener - Xanthe Gay

Our Magnificent  Seven
Walking down the main street of Braidwood are an organic orchardist, the wine maker, the master gardeners, the butcher, the chef, the smoked smallgoods producer and the brewer. Seven enterprises we think represent the region. 

The Guide
Travel the food trail through the historic villages of Braidwood, Bungendore, Collector, Gundaroo, Hall, and Murrumbateman >

A Capital Country mixed dozen  Jennie Mooney from Grazing picks 12 Canberra Region wineries from her award winning list.

"Complex well made red, with superb depth of colour, pronounced fruit characters...

Orchardist Owen Pidgeon says of the apple on our cover - “The Sundowner apple is a cross between the Golden Delicious and Lady Williams varieties produced in the W.A. Department of Agriculture Breeding Program in 1979. The fruit is medium size, has good colour and flavour. The flesh is white, crisp, juicy and sweet. It is a very good keeper with a long shelf life.”
The classic wine glass: ‘Rocco’ by Luigi Bormioli from David Jones. Fred took the photograph.

Grazing Country
Discover the food of Chef Jodie Johnson at NSW's top Tourism restaurant - Grazing at Gundaroo

Wine and Spirit
Why Tim Kirk puts his heart and soul into his Clonakilla wines

From plot to plate
Joyce Wilkie and Michael Plane make the case for restaurant gardens

Open for crunch
Is it just because they're organic that apples from Loriendale orchard are sweeter than the rest?

 
Make a Preachers Cake
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INTRODUCTION
Take the back roads to history  These towns were here 100 years BC - that's Before Canberra. While they wouldn't be the same without the nearby city, they're not just dormitory suburbs. There's a thriving good-food culture. And of course there is the wine.

ARTICLES
Our Magnificent Seven Seven enterprises, one aim: to make regional food something special ~ A cut above the competition. The Bungendore Country Butcher and his champion sheep dogs ~ A strong sense of place Why people love Collector’s classic Lynwood Café ~ Lynwood Preserves Episode 2 Robbie Howard has preserving in her blood ~ The beer around here Braidwood Classic Ales owe their character to the local water ~ The business of Poaching What happens when a stockbroker takes up smoking? ~ Wine and spirit  Why Tim Kirk puts his heart and soul into his Clonakilla wines ~ The fire this time An Italian baker follows in mamma’s footsteps ~ Here’s to Old Times Tales of ghosts and bushrangers in Capital Country pubs ~ Plague or plenty Rabbits: a pest in the paddock, pleasing on the plate.
 

Harvest Our round-up of people, places and produce from Darwin to Perth, Bellata to Bondi  ~ Calendar Food and wine events around the country, plus a preview of Tasting Australia ~ Season’s best What’s fresh ? ~ Farmers’ Markets Our updated list, plus a run down on the 2nd National Conference ~ Wine with Christina Tulloch Marsh Estate: It’s all done on the property, without irrigation! ~  Reviews How to cook a parrot, cooking for kids and two for the coffee table. ~ URLS we love - Follow up our stories or just go browsing with these web addresses ~ Big issues Scott Watkins-Sully asks “Can real ale survive in Australia?” ~ Real and Utterly Forgettable Dr Barbara Santich explains why ‘real food’ doesn’t have to be plain and simple ~ Oily Business The local olive oil industry is hotting up ~ Regional recipes A couple more. Yes, we know you want them! ~ Refrigerate after opening The foods we love to hate ~ Last Writes The bits we couldn’t fit in anywhere else.

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