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Vogue Produce awards 2008 Winners from Tassie (Gobbler Blog)(added 14-5-2008)
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Big gongs for Tassie produce (Mercury 13 May 2008)
Maria Rae
A PRESTIGIOUS magazine has awarded two Tasmanian companies for its fine produce.
Woodbridge Smokehouse and Miellerie Honey were recognised in the 2008 Vogue Entertaining and Travel produce awards in Sydney yesterday.
For their cold smoked ocean trout with pepper berry liquor, Woodbridge Smokehouse was the winner for best produce from the sea.
Located on an organic apple orchard south of Hobart, the smokehouse uses traditional ovens using woodchips from their own fruit trees.
Judge chef Chris Jackman was impressed with the "wonderful wood-smoke aroma".
"One can’t stop at one slice, sublime," he said.
And Miellerie Honey took out the award for best new product and was highly commended in the best produce from the earth category.
Apiarist Yves Ginat uses organic and biodynamic methods to extract the honey.
Judge and food writer Simon Marnie said each honey was distinctive with a long finish.
Hill St Grocer co-proprietor Nick Nikitaras said the cold-smoked fish was a popular seller at his West Hobart store.
Despite the extra cost, he said customers were impressed with quality.
"You can really taste the smoked flavour," he said.
"It’s not an artificial process."
He said the texture of the flesh and the cut were perfect.
"It’s the best smoked product in the state," he said.
"And it’s highly regarded throughout Australia."
He said interstate visitors often sought out the Woodbridge Smokehouse products.
The magazine’s editor-in-chief Trudi Jenkins said the awards were dedicated to discovering and celebrating the finest food growers and suppliers in the country.
"They acknowledge the people who are committed to quality and consistency in what they grow and make," she said.
Beginning Wednesday, June 25 2008 at 8pm, meet some truly unique Australian artisans in a brand new series
on our Passionate Apprentices.
In an idyllic valley in the shadow of Sleeping Beauty Mountain in southern Tasmania,
three men have spent decades mastering the ancient crafts of knife making, beekeeping and bread making.
Now each has found an apprentice and skills are being taught, secrets shared, and passions passed on
to a new generation.
Over these three episodes the links that bind an old-world community are revealed and offers an intimate portrait
of a close-knit group of inspiring people, who share a passion for perfection.
Episode two - The Beekeeper
Wednesday July 2 2008, 8pm
Yves Ginat prepares fine honeys using the traditional methods of his French homeland. Yves learnt beekeeping
as a child from two master honey makers - a blind old man and a deaf woman, who lived in a converted cave in the side
of a cliff. In Tasmania, Yves has found the source of the finest honey he’s ever tasted - a white honey collected
from late-blooming heather that grows in the highlights. He plans to build new hives and take his bees up for the
winter flowering. Yves’ apprentice is his nine-year-old daughter, Marlin. Through her eyes, the complex mysteries
of beekeeping - from dipping hives to culling spare queens - are explored. Father and daughter are joined in their
passion for bees by Marlin’s teacher, Damon. The three work together, blending the rare snow honey and taking
turns to savour its taste.
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