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Creating a culinary tourism destination

Culinary tourism is well and truly on the international tourism map � and South Australia is leading the way in the destination stakes.
South Australia�s Food and Wine Strategy makes a bold vision, �by 2020, South Australia will be recognised as the world�s leading food and wine destination.�
The vision is not something that was pulled from a hat, but follows two years of intense work and campaigning by food and wine industry representatives and the South Australian Tourism Commission.

The Food Lovers' Guide to Australia

The Food Lovers' Guide to Australia brings to the screen the best and most exciting food this country has to offer, travelling from the farms and plantations of the outback to tropical Kakadu, sharing magnificent meals and wonderful stories, plus recipes both traditional and new.

Is Local Enough? Some Arguments for Regional Food Systems

The focus on local food systems has been quite strong over the last decade, and the phenomenon has appropriately been given a lot of attention by consumers, researchers, and food supply chain participants. As a complement to the other papers in this issue, we devote our attention here to the concept of regional food systems. While many food system advocates use�and think of�the concepts as synonymous, we argue that such a merger obscures critical distinctions and fails to provide a meaningful framework upon which to build a more economically viable and environmentally sustainable food system. We suggest that a regional food system includes �local� but operates in a larger, more comprehensive scale. Many of our arguments and assumptions have not been tested yet, but offer fruitful opportunities for analysis, ways to work together, and a useful research agenda.

Why is Food Connect taking off?

FOOD CONNECT� it�s a bit like a contagion really, something that is rapidly spreading through viral replication.

The contagion has now spread as far as Adelaide and it�s sure to replicate its way further along the coast, perhaps making the hop across Bass Strait to Tasmania and to inland towns and cities as well. It�s a contagion of the positive type and it is evidence that a good idea can move quickly.