Pre-Christmas The Jackie Stewart Way. Hassan & Loula Update
This week there’s an end of year catch-up with family friends, a son’s birthday, a work wind-up, a kinder Christmas show, next week another son’s birthday, more work wind-ups, parents arrive from overseas, present buying, a car to service, loose ends to tie, more goodbyes, more drinks, late gifts, groceries, packing, wrapping, ringing …… It happens like this every year and […]
Nirma's Story. Didier Pajoy's Coffee Arrives. Jar up for Crowdsaucing Day.
I want to share Nirma’s story which was posted on New Humans of Australia. Nirma (that’s him up there) is one of four chefs at the hugely popular Tamil Feasts (held at CERES every Monday and Tuesday) and he also works as part of the packing crew at the Fair Food warehouse. I am a Tamil refugee […]
Making friends can really shake your life up. Care for your box, care for the world.
When I started researching coffee I heard a lot of talk about cupping. It sounded mysterious; I first imagined cupping was similar to the Chinese medicine practice but with hot latte glasses suctioned to the taster’s body containing different coffee beans and then by a process of infusion he or she came up with a score for each batch. […]
It's been a big a week in sauce. Turn right to Dench.
As the sun went down on Saturday’s first Crowdsaucing Day a tired, happy sauce-stained sigh of relief and a little disbelief could be heard from various Fair Food staff around the city. Probably none more so than organiser, Monique Miller, who on Friday morning an hour before tomatoes were supposed to be despatched wasn’t sure whether […]
What are you up to on Fat Tuesday?
So next week on the 9th February it’s Pancake Day or Shrove Tuesday or Fat Tuesday, which we know better as Mardi Gras. Pancake Day happens on the eve of Ash Wednesday, the first day of the 40 day Lent fast. In many places there is an accompanying Fat Thursday where literally you eat all […]
Vince & Em's Zucchini Achievement. Unglut Week 2. Bonus Summer reading.
Last week, after coming back from the Christmas break, I caught up with CERES farmer Vince Fitipaldi at the warehouse (that’s him above). With such a dry start to Summer I feared I would be returning to a drought stunted field. Vince, however, seemed unusually animated and let mention that he had a few nice […]
