by Sarah | Sample Food Festival
Foodie Heaven at Sample Food Festival 2018! It was a perfect spring day as the Bangalow Showgrounds transformed into foodie heaven on Saturday 1st September for the 16,000 + attendees of Sample Food Festival 2018. This was the eighth year the event has been held and...
by sample | Eat Your Words Workshop Story
Like the wonderfully delicious gyoza dumplings he makes, Sho Chen, the owner of Shoza Gyoza in Byron Bay, also comes from China. Sho has come to love all things Japanese, though, after living in Japan and meeting his now wife, Jireh Dixon, at a language school there....
by sample | Eat Your Words Workshop Story
There were so many “wants” at the Sample Food Festival in Bangalow. My difficulty was choosing between what I “want” and what I “need”. I decided to focus on my new passion for Aboriginal bush ingredients and find out how chefs are using them in their cooking today....
by sample | Eat Your Words Workshop Story
Grilo, which means “cricket” in Portuguese, is a Byron Bay company with the mission to promote better health and sustainable food in an unusual way—through cricket powder and cricket energy bars. Grilo is run by the Brazilian sisters Martina and Camilla Meyer and...
by sample | Eat Your Words Workshop Story
If you missed the Sample Food Festival last weekend, you can still have a taste of the delicious food products the region has to offer. Here are five of the best from my visit to the festival; available from the region’s weekly farmers markets, general stores,...
by sample | Eat Your Words Workshop Story
Byron Bay to New York is a long way to travel to realise a life-long passion. It was a journey that changed everything for Heidi Briggs of the plant-based food company Heidi Flora. From a very young age, Briggs knew that being a chef was her calling. “My culinary...
by sample | Eat Your Words Workshop Story
Imagine being handed a mystery box of ingredients and being asked to prepare two courses in 30 minutes. Now imagine doing the same thing in front of a giant crowd. This is precisely the challenge that Zeb Gilbert of Wasabi Restaurant in Noosa, Michelin star chef Luca...
by sample | Eat Your Words Workshop Story
Would you serve smoked oysters at your next cocktail party? Not the first thing that springs to mind? Once considered a luxury item, and served on salty crackers, smoked oysters were actually an hor d’oeuvre staple of the 1950 and ’60s. Then somehow, they fell from...
by Sarah | Sample Food Festival
Norco is a name synonymous with the Northern Rivers, the home of Sample Food Festival and we are honoured to have them as a festival sponsor. You can sample their award winning milk or purchase their flavoured milks at the Norco van at #SampleFoodFest 2018 presented...
by Sarah | Sample Food Festival
Sample 2018 officially launches on Thursday with the first Le Cordon Bleu workshop at the Byron at Byron. The wining and dining continues through to the pinnacle event, the 8th Annual Sample Food Festival presented by Gold Coast Airport on Saturday 1st September....
