Win books from Tasmania and Queensland
Uncovering the best wine and food of the north and south
Picnics in Paradise by Karen Goodwin-Roberts
You could discover the real flavour of Tasmania and Queensland with these glorious books from states with growing reputations for fine food and wine.
These 15 books will have you picnicking in paradise or tasting the fine food and wine on Tasmania's table. Find the perfect partner for your wine, explore Queensland's food and wine regions or get a taste for the tropics with Salsa.
We've also got 5 funky tchillbags to give away, just in time for those summer gatherings where you want your wine chilled now.
These are all excellent publications and you can choose which one you'd most like to win!
Tasmania's Table (3 copies)
A feast for your eyes, Tasmania's Table, by Paul County with Nick Osborne's evocative photography, is a sumptuous book that showcases the fresh produce, people and dishes that are bringing the island state to the attention of food and wine lovers around the world.
This classy publication was a well-deserved nominee in the 2010 Le Cordon Bleu Gourmand Awards and just glancing through its pages will have you dreaming of a long, slow food and wine-filled around Tasmania.
From the famous Agrarian Kitchen cooking school to renowned restaurants, fresh seafood and free range pork, tasty cheeses and wagyu and much more in between, Tasmania's Table gives you the background and history, the people and the recipes.
RRP A$69.95 plus postage
Picnics in Paradise (3 copies)
If you're heading pto aradise, then you'll need this travelling companion. Picnics in Paradise by Karen Goodwin-Roberts is your touring and tasting companion for the highways and by-ways of Tasmania.
You'll have the inside knowledge on where to find delicious produce around the state, often with just with just one degree separation and you can't get much fresher than that! And what better than food and wine picked up on the way to that perfect location.
The delicious recipes are simple and designed to show up the freshness and quality of the produce. They're enhanced perfectly with beautiful photography from Nick Osborne often showing the dish invitingly in situ, out in the environment where it always tastes the best.
RRP A$29.95 plus postage
Salsa (2 copies)
From Port Douglas, comes modern Australian troical cuisine all wrapped up in a gorgeous book by chefs and restaurant owners Rhys Bawden and Bill Conway.
Salsa Bar and Grill has been serving up this flavoursome food for over 14 years and being housed Queenslander style, the food, service and relaxing deck mean that lunch often extends into a full afternoon of tropical gourmet delights.
Salsa - Fine food with Flair exudes the tropics like a frangipani in full bloom. Full of delicious recipes featuring local produce like crocodile and parrot fish but also with plenty that can reproduce a sense of warmer climes for those of us living further south. Lamb tenderloins, porcini mushrooms and quail are all given the modern tropical treatment and illustrated with mouth-watering photographs.
If you can't make it to Port Douglas to taste in person, then enter now for your chance to win a slice of the tropics at home.
RRP A$49.95 plus postage
In Search of the Perfect Partner (4 copies)
Queenslanders, Ryn and Cordie give you the wine and food matching formula in their book In Search of the Perfect Partner. It's the answer to the quandary of what wine to choose for everyday meals and will soon have you falling in love with wine and food matching instead of seeing it as a task.
The 66 recipes are easy to follow and achieveable and reflect the cross-section that appears in the modern Australian kitchen. From starters and brunches right through the day to sugar hits, all with perfect wine matches and photos to inspire. There are also hints and tips if anything is unfamiliar, plus a useful chart at the beginning ‘to make food and wine matching possible for those who, up until now, have felt too intimidated to give it a try’. There are also 16 ‘rules’ if you really get stuck.
It looks easy and it can be! Simply choose the dish that appeals to you right then and there, then take yourself off to the wine rack or bottleshop and purchase with confidence.
RRP A$29.95 plus postage
Queensland Food and Wine Touring Atlas (3 copies)
With over 200 food, wine and beverage producers to discover, planning a wine and food adventure to the sunshine state has become a whole lot easier with publication of the Queensland Food and Wine Touring Atlas, edited by Natalie Wilson.
Divided into six regions, this is more than just a reference book, it's an atlas you can read and get a real feel for each area, meet some of the producers and plot your food and wine course.
Many producers were hard hit by the floods but after re-building their lives and throwing the doors open to welcome the visitors, some are still waiting for the rest of Australia to wake up and come visit.
With so much more than bananas and mangoes to be savoured, the Food and Wine Touring Atlas will surely inspire more visitors. After all, can there be anything more fulfilling on a food and wine inspired holiday than enjoying a chat with the maker of wine you're sipping on or the delicious food hitting your taste buds?
RRP A$29.95 plus postage
Tchillbags (5)
Whether you're in Tasmania, Queensland or anywhere around the country, a funky VisitVineyards.com tchillbag will keep your favourite bottle of wine perfectly chilled and ready for the sipping. Just fill it with ice, water and the wine and presto, the tchillbag is cooling your wine. When the bottle is sadly finished, the tchillbag folds down and slips back into the picnic basket, handbag or glove box.
RRP A$14.95 plus postage
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