{"id":4016,"date":"2009-12-07T21:17:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T11:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australiantropicalfoods.com\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2014-12-09T22:38:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T12:38:33","slug":"chefs-tour-of-the-tablelands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/chefs-tour-of-the-tablelands\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef’s Tour of the Tablelands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local Chefs Discover the Regions Produce<\/span><\/h3>\n

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On Thursday 3rd December 25 chefs from Tropical North Queensland’s best restaurants\u00c2\u00a0embarked on a tour of the tablelands.\u00c2\u00a0 Visiting 13 sites and 5 producers that included\u00c2\u00a0fruit, vegetable\u00c2\u00a0and herb growers, meat producers, native food producers, cheese maker, nuts, coffee,\u00c2\u00a0 a distillery and an ice-creamery, they\u00c2\u00a0were astounded at the quality of products available regionally.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0The tour was organised by Australian Tropical Foods as part of a Food Industry project, initiated by Advance Cairns and funded through Queensland Government Department of Education, Economic Development and Innovation.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00c2\u00a0bought together chefs and farmers face-to-face in an effort to source local food for the regions restaurant menus.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just-picked ultra fresh zucchini’s with beautiful flowers were like a magnet for chefs who would prefer their produce comes directly to them from the\u00c2\u00a0Tablelands\u00c2\u00a0instead of the road trip to Brisbane and back.<\/p>\n

The\u00c2\u00a0meat producers who\u00c2\u00a0care with a passion\u00c2\u00a0about their animals and the quality of the meat will surely receive some orders, and for many chefs, they were unaware of the beautiful local cheese on offer.<\/p>\n

The day was long and action packed and dropping into Mt Uncle Distillery in the late afternoon\u00c2\u00a0for a Mojito (or two)\u00c2\u00a0made of their new Platinum Rum just hit the right spot.\u00c2\u00a0 That was followed by the\u00c2\u00a0final visit of the day at Emerald Creek Ice-Creamery where a feeding frenzy of around 15 great tropical\u00c2\u00a0flavours was eagerly consumed.<\/p>\n

The day was a great success and set the plans for another tour in the early part of 2010 to include the Cassowary Coast\u00c2\u00a0.<\/p>\n

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Local Chefs Discover the Regions Produce On Thursday 3rd December 25 chefs from Tropical North Queensland’s best restaurants\u00c2\u00a0embarked on a tour of the tablelands.\u00c2\u00a0 Visiting 13 sites and 5 producers that included\u00c2\u00a0fruit, vegetable\u00c2\u00a0and herb growers, meat producers, native food producers, cheese maker, nuts, coffee,\u00c2\u00a0 a distillery and an ice-creamery, they\u00c2\u00a0were astounded at the quality of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chefs-corner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5077,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/5077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}