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RENOWNED Australian cook Maggie Beer – the second-longest Australian member of Slow Food – has been named one of the four Australians of the Year for 2010. Maggie was presented with the award, as senior Australian of the Year, by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd MP at a ceremony at Parliament House, Canberra, yesterday evening. Sydney food charity organiser Ronnie Kahn, of OzHarvest, was named Australian Local Hero 2010 [...]
A PLAN by multinational fast-food chain McDonald’s to open in Nuriootpa has drawn fire from the Barossa Valley’s regional food defenders. Leading identities Maggie Beer and her daughters Saskia and Elli, Jan Angas and Margaret and Phillip Lehmann say a proposal to site a McDonald’s in a $4.5 million development called Barossa Hub would be a thorn in the side of the Barossa’s established food culture [...]
SYDNEY’s Haberfield community has won a battle to prevent a McDonald’s ‘restaurant’ opening in a small western suburbs community. The local Ashfield Council knocked back the application on 08 Dec 2009. Slow Food international president Carlo Petrini – who organised a protest more than 20 years ago against a McDonald’s opening in the heart of historic Rome – met the Haberfield protesters during his visit to Sydney in October [...]
A RIGHT-to-farm Bill sponsored by Fleurieu Peninsula dairyfarmer parliamentarian Robert Brokenshire passed South Australia’s Legislative Council on 19 Nov 2009. The Bill is designed to enable farmers to keep farming despite urban encroachment [...]
‘THE speck of a hawk over the Barossa Valley today,’ reports The Weekend Australian Magazine food writer Necia Wilden, ‘is the threat of urban sprawl and the loss of precious agricultural land to housing developments.’ Wilden’s story, published in the 21-22 Nov 209 edition, centres on Barossa Slow, Slow Food Adelaide and Barossa convivium’s biennial food festival, held in South Australia early in October. The challenge on which Wilden reports [...]
