Melbourne International Food and Wine festival

Oh what a week I've had! I have been very privileged to be involved, through the CWA, with this year's Melbourne International Food and wine festival.

As CWA State Vice President and State Fair convenor, I have spent months organising, cajoling and praying that our 2 events would "come off" and that they did!

Great fun, great weather, great friends and great promotion of our Association.

First Up was our State Fair on March 5th.

For the first time, we undertook cooking demonstrations, thanks to support from Blanco. These were a huge success with 40 people each session seated, plus standing room only participants.

I had also involved ECG, an education institution based in East Gippsland, who specialise in horticulture. They organised a group of growers, producers to have stalls and show their product to a "foodie" Melbourne market. Even the more conservative CWA ladies had big grins ads they tucked into Goat milk icecream!

And of course there were our own stalls selling cakes, confectionery, old cookbooks, craft, preserves, herbs and lemonade. Inside our beautiful building was the devonshire tea.

We also had a gourmet bbq and baked potato stand. And that was only the first event!

See my next post for the day at Prahran market. :)