Unnatural Acts at The Natural Products ExpoI just clocked another few weeks in the USA with presentations to retailers, wholesalers and a few manufacturers in New York before heading over to the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, Ca. There is huge interest in all things Australian and quality products will always grab attention and hold Read More …
Wattle We Eat Now? (that’s the Royal ‘We’)The Queen’s 15th visit to Australia was complemented with a dinner at the Great Hall of Parliament House. Like many official functions for all types of heads of state, politicians, royalty, sheiks, religious leaders and so on, this week’s event featured Cherikoff ingredients, at least the one of Read More …
Bottled Stupidity – bush flower essences on the noseAnd now another marketing strategy which is practicing that adage; if you can fool some of the people some of the time…Discover the functional (nutritional, antimicrobial, culinary or cosmetic) uses of the wild resources of the world’s longest living culture. A company which I predict will struggle is Read More …
Follow the white radish …Something out of the Matrix here. Things are rarely what they seem, especially when government gets involved. I’ve copied a story by Robert Carmack who, along with Morrison Polkinghorne, has an ezine which I highly recommend called The Globetrotting Gourmet. A world first in standardizing Asian vegetable names has come from Australian bureaucrats. It’s about time Read More …
One opinion goes to a city’s headIt is amazing what a single travel writer’s opinion from one, unqualified trip can do for a city’s reputation (a bit like a food critic’s opinion on his one night stand at a restaurant). Lucky we don’t measure the efficacy of clinical drugs, agricultural chemicals, military armament developments or Read More …
Dining Downunder in 39 countriesDining Downunder, the Australian TV cooking series which features our authentic Australian cuisine and ingredients, is set to replay on the ABC Asia Pacific network in October. We are inviting companies that already export to the Asia Pacific region to become involved with our Strategic Marketing Program. We understand the difficulties of Read More …