This May-Day long weekend ushered in the seventh annual Noosa Food and Wine Festival. The weekend-long celebration of food and wine plays host to a myriad of national chefs, local providores and other foodie related things. This year Masterchef critic Matt Preston attended, and went head-to-head with five other food critics (Lizzie Loel, Bob Hart, Tony Love, Simon Thomsen and Necia Wilden) in a cook off challenge. Each critic had to prepare an appealing finger-food meal to feed the thousands of festival-goers. At the end of the day the people chose their favourite; Matt Preston, whilst Lizzie Loel and Bob Hart claimed the Critic’s Choice award. The festival also featured cooking classes and sideshow dinners; a host of chefs including George Calombaris, Matt Moran and Valli Little took over Noosa’s Berado’s Restaurant last night to prepare a degustation meal. It’s wonderful to have such a national celebration of food right here in Queensland, and it’s becoming more noticeable just how much Aussies care about their produce, where it’s from, how it’s farmed and the best way to prepare it. Foodie events (like this, the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival etc) are such a support to our food industry and a real showcase of our wonderful produce. Gives you another reason to be proud to be an Aussie.
