It was a fab do at Taste (http://taste-online.com.au)in Fortitude Valley last night to celebrate owner Jodie Macaulay's recent win of a Global Innovators Award at the Chicago International Homewares Association show. Well deserved too, as any keen foodie who's been into her vast shop of culinary equipment for a vegetable peeler and come away laden with bags of must-have kitchen items will know.
Macauley always put on a great show at Taste, after setting up in Brisbane just 2 years ago, with great products and cooking demos. She really is an innovator, filling the yawning gap there once was in Brisbane between chef-supply shops and chain store kitchen ware shops. She always seems to have something new and interesting.
In Chicago, she was competing against the best of the best in the show, including ancient luminaries such as Galleries Layfette, so a big, big well done to her for representing her adopted state so well.
It was amusing to watch the glamourous punters trying to look like they weren't waiting to snatch up a piece of the Beccofino pizza as it was pulled out of the wood-fired oven, yes me included. I've yet to taste a more authentic pizza in Queensland, or Australia for that matter than those made at Beccofino. At the next table, doyenne Suzanne Quinter whipped up Moroccan chicken, spiced potatoes and more using products from her range (My fave is the preserved lemon aioli), there were sweet litte cupcakes from the Cupcake Parlour, tastes of cocktails made on Grey Goose vodka, hot Raclette being spread on crisp bread, knife demos and more.
A great function as usual with a goody bag given out to attendees who were all customers and supporters. Very classy. I'm sure I'm not the only female there though who wants to know where did you get those killer heels Jodie?
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