VEGETARIAN ADVENTURE

With Viviane Bauquet Farre

Creative New York chef and food writer Viviane Bauquet Farre, a lifelong vegetarian, joins SHOWCOOK with delicious dishes using fruit, vegetables, salad leaves, grains and pulses. Viviane, who masterminds brilliant cookery classes in New York, adds stylish and elegant touches to her recipes making each dish a culinary adventure!

The humble carrot is a familiar sight in every supermarket, and perhaps that’s why it doesn’t usually command much attention or excitement. But those colorful roots certainly have some exotic origins.

FEATURE SPECIES: PRAWNS FISHline News

With Roberta Muir

Sydney Seafood School’s Autumn program launched - The March-June program of classes and latest FISHline News can be viewed at www.sydneyfishmarket.com.au.

Classes can be booked online and gift certificates purchased from the website.

SEE! TIPSY CHOCOLATE TRIFLE

Learn to Cook with Showcook

Fashionable desserts come and go but a tipsy trifle remains as richly seductive as ever, and makes the perfect sweet. 

QUEEN OF TARTS ON A VALENTINE’S DAY

Bake with Tina Bester

Tina Bester, at her delightfully whimsical store, ‘Queen of Tarts’, in Observatory, has created the epitome of home baked treats made in the old fashioned way but with her particular twist. Enjoy both sweet and savoury treats and bake them in advance to serve on a fun filled Valentine’s Day. 

SEE! UPWARDLY MOBILE

Networking with Nadia Bilchik, top prime-time anchor,
professional speaker and trainer. 

So, how do you deal with moments of self-doubt, times when you have a crisis of confidence and question your knowledge and ability? How do you transition to both feeling and projecting a sense of confidence and strength? 

OUT OF THE CAN
Eat Beater. Live Better.

With Lannice Snyman

Lannice Snyman, who is known for her delicious way with pilchards, surely one of our most nutritious and often neglected fish, has produced her new ‘Out of the Can’ cook book for eating better and living better. "Pilchards," she explains, "have an excellent and unique flavour." This convenient valuable little fish lends itself to a multitude of healthy but essentially simple dishes. Recipes that are convenient, basic and have a homely appeal.

IN THE NEWS! IN THE NEW! IN THE NEWS!

South African wines shine and bouquets all round!

Excellence - St Andrews, a new boutique hotel conveniently placed and Waterkloof Restaurant with Burgundian chef Grégory Czarnecki. Vital - On a Plate supports StreetSmart helping street children..

ON A PLATE

Signature dishes from SA’s award-winning restaurants

StreetSmart, an amazing organisation, hoping to roll out nationally and whose aim is to protect and educate the street children of the cities of South Africa, will benefit from this lovingly and carefully compiled cookbook by Jess Meredith-Watts. Among the 20 top ranked premier regional restaurants featured are Myoga, Ile Maurice and Rust en Vrede. Many talented top chefs have given most generously of their time and great skill to making On A Plate a book for a very special cause.

BEST PURSUITS! ORCHID KINGS OF DARLING

By Hilary Prendini Toffoli

Richard King clones orchids in what was once the Darling schoolhouse for Duckitt Nurseries, the biggest orchid supplier in the southern hemisphere. 

SEE! BREACH FOR THE SKY!

By Roy Watts
Photography by Chris Fallows

The great white sharks of False Bay have developed a unique form of breach predation which has them hurtling out of the sea with awesome savagery. With the world record for one of these beasts standing at well over 6 metres, and with weights ranging between 1 and 2 tons, the stage is set for a spectacle more dramatic than anything Hollywood could conjure up.