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Greetings!
Welcome to our new newsletter.
Hopefully with our friends at Constant Contact, we
will be better able to keep you up to date with what
we have in store, who is visiting us and what we've
been eating & drinking.
For the patient, our new website is almost finished
(yes I know we've said that before) and a full
catalogue of our books will be available for purchase,
hopefully before Christmas.
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An Evening at Tolarno Bistro | 7pm Tuesday 14 November
with authors Iain 'Huey' Hewitson & Bob Hart
Best-selling author Iain Hewitson shares 130 recipes
from his iconic restaurant, Tolarno, in this beautifully
illustrated cookbook.
Tolarno Bistro celebrates the extraordinary and
colourful history of this iconic restaurant, both
culinary and otherwise. Started in the 1960s by
Georges and Mirka Mora, taken over by Leon Massoni
in the 1970s (where it was the training ground for
the likes of Guy Grossi), then rescued from ruin by
Iain Hewitson seventeen years ago, this is no
conventional tale. Celebrities and ratbags, the gifted
and the eccentric have passed through both the
dining room and kitchen of Tolarno.
As French bistro food enjoys a resurgence in
popularity, Iain Hewitson says its popularity never
waned down St Kilda way - where else could you go
for moules mariniere in 1962, and find the same dish
forty years later, in the same dining room, with the
same enchanting figures beaming down on you from
the walls?
When Tolarno Bistro closed its doors at the end of
May 2006, an amazing era ended. This cookbook is
more than a memento - it's a record of what
probably happened, and who might have been there,
complete with what would have been cooked,
adapted for contemporary times. With 130 recipes,
quirky memorabilia, decorated menus, and the
proprietors' personal snap shots, something of
Tolarno will now live on. And the recipe for the
famous Tolarno burger is on page 196.
Join us for an intimate evening with the authors of
Tolarno Bistro, an evocative and fascinating book
about the restaurant that defined bohemian
Melbourne and has fed us for over 4 decades.
As usual, the evening is free, and tastes from the
book will be available. Bookings are essential as
places are limited.
If you can't join us, signed copies will be available to
order
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In a few weeks, we will be sending out a note of our
favourite books for this Christmas and a few treats
we are organising.
We will be open every day from now until Christmas.
Orders for overseas titles will close on 10 December
and our last post for mail order before Christmas will
be Wednesday 20 December.
Sincerely,
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Kate McGhie grew up on a farm in Western Victoria,
in the heart of seasonal produce and traditional food
preparation.This connection with the land and a nosy
curiosity about food led her to explore kitchens,
farms and restaurants in the farthest flung corners of
the globe.
Kate has been sharing her knowledge of cooking for
over 25 years. She is a member of worldwide food
organisations; a public speaker; media commentator;
and regular contributor to magazines and industry
groups. Her weekly column in the Herald Sun, the
highestselling daily Australian newspaper, is followed
by millions of readers.