{"id":4289,"date":"2010-02-06T14:27:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T04:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australiantropicalfoods.com\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2014-02-15T16:39:50","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T06:39:50","slug":"in-search-of-regional-produce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/in-search-of-regional-produce\/","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Regional Produce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen Chefs got out of their kitchen and onto a <strong>Chef&#8217;s\u00a0Tour of the Tablelands<\/strong> in search of local\u00a0 produce.\u00a0 This tour in December 2009 was the first in a series of four tours to get more\u00a0regional food on menus of the restaurants of Tropical North Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>The chefs were amazed at the diversity of produce that ranges from tropical to subtropical fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, dairy, meat\u00a0and indigenous roducts.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n<p><strong>The Chefs<\/strong> were from Salsa and Zinc from Port Douglas, Sebel Reef House and Nu Nu&#8217;s from Palm Cove, Ochre, Oliver&#8217;s fine food, Salthouse, Tjapukai, Tha Fish, TAFE, from Cairns and Eden House and Nicks from Yungaburra.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\n<p><strong>They visited<\/strong> a herb farm in Kuranda, fruit and vegetable farms and Skybury Coffee Plantation in Paddy&#8217;s Green, Morganbury Meats and Mt Uncle Distillery at Walkamin, Gallo&#8217;s Dairyland in Malanda, Happy Beef\/Pork at Lake Eacham and Emerald Creek Ice-creamery at Mareeba.\u00a0 At lunch at Eden House in Yungaburra other products of the region were displayed &#8211; Rainforest Bounty, Wondaree Macadamias and Sunset Ridge Fingerlimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen Chefs got out of their kitchen and onto a Chef&#8217;s\u00a0Tour of the Tablelands in search of local\u00a0 produce.\u00a0 This tour in December 2009 was the first in a series of four tours to get more\u00a0regional food on menus of the restaurants of Tropical North Queensland. The chefs were amazed at the diversity of produce [&hellip;]<\/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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chefs-tour-of-the-tablelands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","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=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4881,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/australiantropicalfoods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}