Barbecue madness!
Photo: Daniel Boud
The Sydney International Food Festival launched with a day of Barbecue Madness at The Sydney Morning Herald Growers' Market, on Saturday, October 3.
Fergus Henderson, owner of St John restaurant in London, whose book Nose to Tail Eating: A Kind of British Cooking helped revive the appreciation of offal, turned out to cook his nose to tail barbecue. The pigs on the spit were amazing, and at $15 a plate, it was the talk of the town.
A dozen Sydney chefs turned out to support Henderson with their own nose-to-tail dishes, either inspired by Henderson or created at their own restaurants.
''I've never spit-roasted a pig, so there we go - a new adventure. They've got me a spit wizard to help, which I need. It will be in safe hands," commented Henderson.
With a series of other barbecue events around town, including the Vietnamese barbecue at Cabramatta and a very Oxford-Street appropriate sausage sizzle in Taylor Square, we're sure that the first weekend of October is now officially marked on the calendar as Barbecue Madness.
Thank you to all those who took part.
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