TASMANIAN FOOD  – BEYOND APPLES

When Charles Darwin arrived in Tasmania on a visit in 1836, he found ‘luxuriant vegetables and fine corn fields’. Just imagine his surprise if he were to visit just 170 years later.

Today’s Apple Isle has evolved into the Isle of Plenty, a green and golden triangle of all things good to eat. Those few early food crops were just the beginning for this island now so rich in its produce that it is hard to know where to start.

Do you begin in the north where the Tamar river vineyards near Launceston produce some of the finest cool-climate wines in the country? Or head south to the Huon area once known best for its apple orchards, but now also crammed with other goodies? Or should you perhaps flip across to King Island, to sample its beef and dairy foods?

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This article continues with details of the various crops and produce of this fertile island and  includes contact information for vineyards, cheese-makers, restaurants, bakers, and oyster growers among other things.

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©Sally Hammond 2006

Picture Credits: ©Gordon Hammond 2006

(Sally and Gordon Hammond travelled as guests of Tasmania Tourism)

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