MasterClass recipe: Ms Vy’s BBQ chicken & lime leaf
posted by Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 8:16 am on May 3, 2012
BBQ chicken & lime leaf
Ms Vy at Langham Melbourne MasterClass 2012
Image: Daniel Mahon
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MasterClass recipe: Christine Manfield’s curry fish salad
posted by Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 8:16 am on May 3, 2012
Christine Manfield’s curry fish salad
Christine Manfield's curry fish salad - Langham Melbourne MasterClass 2012
Image: Armelle Habib
Sneak peek of Cooking with the World’s Best: Fergus Henderson’s Chocolate Ice Cream
posted by Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 4:05 pm on February 28, 2012
Cooking With the World’s Best, gathers 100+ recipes from 20 years of MasterClass featuring international and local culinary greats including Andoni Luiz Aduriz, Shannon Bennett, Elena Arzak, Stephanie Alexander and George Calombaris. Here we share a sneak peek from the cookbook with Fergus Henderson’s recipe for chocolate ice cream.
FERGUS HENDERSON’S CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM (presented at 2008 MasterClass)
We finally did it, battling with the schizophrenic nature of chocolate — the sweetness going in one direction, the chocolate taste in another, plus the chalkiness of bitter chocolate.
Makes 1 litre (35 fl oz/4 cups)
Top event picks from Jill Dupleix and Terry Durack
posted by Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 10:01 am on February 17, 2012
To help you plan your delicious journey through 20 days of unforgettable eating and drinking, check out the top picks from Jill Dupleix and Terry Durack, two of Australia’s most loved food writers.
JILL DUPLEIX
Regional World’s Longest Lunches
It’s a very cool thing, to have so many individual long lunches happening at the same time all over Victoria, with everyone linked by their love of good food and wine, yet celebrating their own local produce and people. Should happen every Friday, I reckon, not just once a year.
Reconciliation through Dining at Charcoal Lane
It’s crazy that we are all so proud of Australia’s multicultural heritage yet we sort of forget about our own Aboriginal people being an integral part of that heritage. Charcoal Lane is one of few restaurants to employ and train up Aboriginal young people and help them gain experience so that they too have a place at our table.
Massimo Bottura: The Press Club
I’m very excited about Massimo Bottura’s dinner at The Press Club. His restaurant Osteria Francescana in Modena has been awarded three Michelin stars since he was here for the 2010 Festival, and it will be great to peek inside his anarchic brain to see what the future holds for food.
Langham Melbourne MasterClass
Twenty years on, and it’s still just such a buzz. I love watching the international chefs ‘get’ how good Melbourne is, and watching Melbourne ‘get’ them too. Especially excited this year about Tsang Chui King, Miss Vy and Christian Puglisi. Three very different chefs, but I’ve eaten their food recently (in Hong Kong, Hoi Anh and Copenhagen) and I’m hungry for more.
Theatre of Ideas
Because it’s not all about eating and drinking. Theatre of Ideas is a wonderful playground for ideas, philosophies, trending topics and other food for the mind – there’s just as much to learn here as in a brilliant cookery demonstration.
TERRY DURACK
What I’m looking forward to most at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival:
Having a pee at the super-sustainable Melbourne Food and Wine Festival Greenhouse by Joost (where urine from the boy’s room is used to fertilise the mustard seeds which produce the oil which fuel the generators, how cool is that?)
Eating up every word from David Chang, René Redzepi, and the gang at Theatre of Ideas. Anyone interested in the future of food really needs to be exposed to this level of debate.
Getting single-minded at Single Vineyard Perfection (part of Acqua Panna Global Wine Experience). Because I’m always drawn to single-minded passionate wine people such as Randall Grahm and Marilisa Allegrini, and single-minded passionate wines.
Going back 125 years at the Hotel Windsor’s Queen Victoria’s Feast. Because I’ve always had a soft spot for Melbourne’s grand old lady The Windsor, and it’s a great celebration of the Victoriana side of Melbourne’s history. And it’s a chance to dress up.
Meeting my lunch at A Taste of Place at Dunkeld. Because Dan Hunter of the Royal Mail is such a forward thinker, yet so deeply rooted in his local region; the perfect contemporary combination.
Serge Viera shares his ‘Memories of the Coral Reef’
posted by Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 9:12 am on February 16, 2012
Michelin-starred Serge Vieira is one of Crown’s exceptional guests as part of Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. From 6 to 11 March, Serge will be resident chef at Crown’s JJ’s Bar and Grill.
Serge loves to create “artistic work with flavours that will make people remember the meal” such as this dish, Memories of the Coral Reef, which comes from his love of Australia.
Serge Viera's 'Memories of the Coral Reef'
From Melbourne to San Sebastian: Holmesglen students at Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
posted by Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2:23 pm on February 10, 2012
Behind the scenes at Langham Melbourne MasterClass Holmesglen hospitality students join the brigade of chefs in the kitchens to assist our Festival presenters with food preparation.
The Gala Dinner
posted by Laura Chodowski 4:13 pm on January 30, 2012
The Gala Dinner our ‘night of nights’ has a special place in the history of Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. For 10 years the dinner, supported by Crown has been held in often unlikely locations (a television studio, a warehouse, in sheds at Docklands and in meat and produce markets) and has seen chefs such as Antonio Carluccio, Shannon Bennett, Atul Kochhar, Chris Salans, Nobu Matsuhisa, Thierry Marx and Fergus Henderson bring delicious life to these hidden and obscure sites.
Chefs can change the world
posted by Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 9:13 am on November 30, 2011
At Theatre of Ideas the world’s most forward-thinking chefs reveal the big ideas and small inspirations behind their approach to cooking and eating, now and in the future. Read on to see how these visionaries are shaping the industry one microbe at a time…
Rene Redzepi's Carrots and Butter Milk
Foodie Trends
posted by Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 10:45 am on November 28, 2011
Christian Puglisi dishshot
Things move so fast these days, it’s hard to keep up. So for Langham Melbourne MasterClass we scoured the world for everything that’s white hot, right now. Read on for a list of some of the hottest foodie trends right now: