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Issue 1
July 28, 2003
Vol. 1
Issue 1
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Where's the Beef?
Once you leave Sydney and pass through Bathurst, follow the Great Western highway towards Cowra, go through Blayney, Mandurama, and turn right toward Canowindra. Once there, go through the stop sign until you’ve come to a T section... With a good sense of direction, and a little patience, you will find yourself at Oakleigh Ranch and a little slice of heaven (or should we say, slab of beef).
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Peeling Orange
Orange is a quaint little town, perhaps nothing to write home about on first glance. But just like everything when you travel, pay attention to what the locals are doing. Because they're heading to Orange in droves for the wine and the food (in one particular restaurant), so we decided to "peel back the skin" on this sleepy little country town and see for ourselves.
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Hunter Gatherers
Hunter Valley has a climate considered far hotter than the Barossa and, if you ask the locals, their Shiraz is vastly... Okay, so we won't go into that. But a visit to the Hunter Valley is definitely a "must-taste" experience for anyone traveling to Australia. Mother (Nature) wouldn't have it any other way.
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Dear Diary
My travels through Australia have now brought me to another unimaginable and astonishing wonderland. We left my beloved Sydney and strayed away from the bustling streets, compacted buildings, Asian influences, and chirping crosswalks into a land of serenity.
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A Town Like Alice
 In our next issue we take you to the Northern Territory and "the heart, the soul, the center" of Australia: Alice Springs. We also travel down to Adelaide and the pristine waters of the Southern Ocean. We talk to a couple of terrific Australian chefs, Athol Wark at the Alice Springs Convention Center and Andrew Fielke in Adelaide. Both are very talented people doing amazing things with Native Australian Spices and Fruits, "wild foods," as they are called here. (You'll be hearing more about this in the future.)
While in Alice Springs, Adriel worked with Chef Athol on a variety of events: a very special wine and food dinner, a Barramundi promotion (using Humpty Doo Barramundi from the Northern Territory), and a "wild foods" (there it is again) sampling dinner prepared for the Alice Springs City Council. Of course, her time in Alice hasn't been all work. She did manage to get out into the desert and visit one of Australia's most important spots: "The Rock."
And while Adriel labored away in Alice Springs, David and Barbara traversed the countryside, employing a divide and conquer approach in order to see Darwin and Alice Springs (briefly) in the Northern Territory and South Australia in a little less than two weeks. Our time in South Australia, organized by Food Adelaide, included visits to an abalone farm, a dairy, meat works, restaurants and more restaurants, which we're looking forward to telling you about next week.
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