Margaret River Gourmet Escape – Turns Out, Nigella Lawson Hates Pineapple on Pizza
The Margaret River Gourmet Escape Festival is ready for action in the heart of Western Australian food and wine land this weekend.
Part of the festivities kicked off at the new, opulent Crown Towers Hotel, a six-star resort overlooking the Swan River westward toward Perth City.
Some of the names to grace the Margaret River Gourmet Escape festival include Nigella, along with Rick Stein – a TV presenter and celeb Chef and Dominique Crenn.
Crenn is regarded as one of the world’s premier Chefs. In fact, she was crowned the World’s “Best Female Chef” for 2016. She is also famous for her time on Netflix series, Chef’s Table.
Stein has been producing TV programs for years and is Head Chef and co-owner of “Rick Stein at Bannisters” at Mollymook, New South Wales. He also owns four restaurants in Padstow, a fish and chip shops in Cornwall, England. He has written a number of cookery books and has presented on television programmes over several decades.
In Perth WA with @Sasstein on way to @GourmetEscapes, doing a barbeque on the beach and dinner at Evans and Tate Winery with @JackStein
— Rick Stein (@Rick_Stein) November 16, 2016
The program’s biggest star, Nigella Lawson, was drafted in to help launch the festival. As part of a media deal, Channel 7’s Sunrise program was there for a slice of the action.
After a somewhat philosophical and emotional discussion centring on passionate foodie culture, the high level discourse between Nigella, Rick and Dominique was broken by a classically Australian disruptive question from local funnyman, Sam Mac.
The TV program’s weather dude was there to jump-in on the panel of foodie legends – he asked the rather unsophisticated question to Nigella… “Pineapple on Pizza? Yes or No?”
Nigella repsonded, “For me, never.”
Nigellas answer went on to refer to her late husband John’s love of pizza, but she quickly settled on a more diplomatic answer… “Im ready to give it another go,” she said.
Welcome @Nigella_Lawson to @WestAustralia Looking forward to @MargaretRiver @GourmetEscape this weekend! pic.twitter.com/ODr27R1aj1
— LEEUWIN ESTATE (@Leeuwin_Estate) November 15, 2016
The WA State Government had drafted Nigella into promote the food and wine festival, part of a big export push to ensure Western Australia plays a central part in the push for high end tourism and cosmopolitan foodie travel culture. A number of incredibly food and wine professionals will lead the 2016 Gourmet Escape Festival – a food love affair like no other in Australia.
Sunrise crashes the Margaret River Escape Launch
See the full event video replay
The cast of local, national and international Chefs and food professionals to grace the festival in 2016:
The chefs available are:
INTERNATIONALS
Ana Ros
Andoni Luis Aduriz
Ashley Palmer-Watts
Dominique Crenn
David Thompson
Janice Wong
Isaac McHale
Mauro Colagreco
Riccardo Camanini
Tony Conigliaro
Australia Wide
Analiese Gregory
Andrew McConnell
Angel Fernandez
Darren Robertson
Lennox Hastie
Mike McEnearney
Mitch Orr
Nelly Robinson
Ross Lusted
Scott Pickett
Western Australia
Aaron Carr
Dan Masters
Dany Angove
George Cooper
Haleigh Troy
Iain Robertson
Jed Gerrard
Josh Whiteland
Ollie Gould
Paul Pskov
Scott Bridger
Seth James
Tony Howell
“Life doesn’t get much better than this…Honestly, I don’t think that there is any other food event on this planet like this.” Heston Blumenthal, Chef & Restaurateur | The Fat Duck & Dinner by Heston, UK – Quote
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