I was lucky enough to score an invite to the launch of Perth’s newest magazine, Spice, by the ever charismatic Anthony of Spice Blog.
So Sharon and I dolled up and swaggered down to see what all the commotion was about.
Having no idea what to expect, we were a little suprised to see so many people. Upon entering we were given our ticket for the door prize (no, we didn’t win… I don’t think anyone ever does), and then processed to taste and sip every little tasty freebie on offer.
It was really well set up, with all of the main advertisers in the first issue having a stand of their produce. Wine, beer, olive oil, lamb, prawns, wood fired pizza, turkish bread, and various other little tasty goodies.
The event was held at the office/kitchen of Comestibles, a catering company in Perth that also runs cooking classes and events. They’ve got a great setup in there and we were all invited to wander through the kitchens and watch the chef’s at work. So roughly 50 people at a time packed themselves into the kitchen and filed around past more tables of goodies to get a taste of seared trout and mushroom crepes. Which all went down very well with the 2nd or 3rd glass of wine i was onto.
It was in the kitchen where we got to meet Mr Spice Blog himself (and his lovely wife Toni), keeping the party rolling by cutting up loaves of bread… (he may have been replicating fish as well, but this is yet to be confirmed). After a quick chat, we wandered around some more, ran into Corey and Ben of Core Espresso and Coffee Geek fame, and generally stuffed ourselves with as many little tid bits as was possible without looking like pigs.
(Nb: It’s always advantageous to bring a girl along for these purposes as they never get suspected)
So all in all it was a lovely event. Great to see so many foodies in Perth turning up, and great to see so much support for what looks like a really great magazine. The first issue has a lot of really nice articles in there, and the production quality is top notch, so congratulations to the team for doing such a good job.
Looking forward to picking up issue 2 !
Cheers Matt
Happy you and Sharon could come along and enjoy yourselves. We’ll have to do the bloggy meet-up thing one day. All were happy with the night.
I’m afraid I can’t accept charismatic as a description but do feel somewhat comfortable with allusions to being a Jesus like figure. Hmm yes.
Hey Anthony,
Yeh a bloggy meetup would be tops… I envision masses of cameras and laptops stacked in the middle of the table around a series of dishes that noone can pronounce… Sounds great :)
Just remember, there was noone more charismatic than Jesus… who else would you want at a party when you’ve run out of wine ??