It's a draw Mr McLeod

Brett's Wharf chef Alastair McLeod of Ready, Steady, Cook fame and I favour our strawberries from different parts of the South East and staunchly claim 'ours' are the best. I'm a Bayside girl and always look out for those big beautiful late picked beauties from Paul Wruck's Wellington Point farm, while McLeod gets them from the Twists near Caboolture.

I was having lunch at Brett's yesterday and Alastair sent me back to the office with a container of Twist strawberries, determined to prove his point. It was interesting watching a colleagues reaction when I gave him one-he sort of popped it in his mouth in a half-hearted automatic sort of way, then his eyes started to bulge as he really tasted it- that forgotten, 'real strawberry' flavour we all knew as kids. 'Oh my god,
he muttered, mouth still full. And yes, Alastair, I concede they were excellent.
What I'm really happy about(very selfish I know) is that these kind of 'picked when truly ripe' strawberries don't travel well, so we Queenslanders get to keep them all to ourselves!