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These escaped from various bits of the print and online editions.

Mark Kelly knows about Snow Food. Since he was a teenager, he's been skiing (and eating and drinking) around the world. While he's always found the best slopes, the food hasn't always matched. We included part of this story in our first issue but there's more.


The Collector Pumpkin festival has become the fun food event in the Canberra/Capital country calendar. Quality produce, food stalls, and pumpkin growing competitions and themed events. The town is small and delightful, the community friendly. Read all about it.

This was a longer entry from the archive of our Editorial weblog which is meant to catch the small things day to day. This piece expresses well what we care about and where our heart is at Regional Food.
"Do you know where just one ingredient of your last meal came from" No? Read this.

Jackie Cooper visited the Royal Mail Hotel, an up-market pub in the tiny town of Dunkeld in Victoria's Grampians Region. She suggests the steak, ok?

Sometimes we break out from our Season's Best section which has that month's freshest varieties, regional specialties and cooking tips to cover some produce in depth. As we travel the country we're building a 'regional food produce encyclopaedia' for our magazine which you'll all see when it's cooked ok?

Pomegranates - Should you spit the pips?

Capsicums - Columbus really, really wanted them to be peppers.

All our recipes come out of our stories which are also linked here because that's the way we like it. While most are sourced from cook books you probably have as well, (and which we credit), some are from the producers themselves. They all use small popup windows.

Summer pudding (cover story January 07)

Summer Salads (from January '06 Season's Best)

Swiss Preacher's Cake (from Loriendale orchard story Issue 2)

Bake a Fougasse (from The Collector Pumpkin Festival story)

Betroot Salad with coriander, mint and Greek yogurt (from the Daylesford Winter Market story)

Spaghetti ai peperoncini verdi (from the Capsicums produce story)