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Welcome to Apples & Elderflower…
a newsletter about small town living in the far south of Tasmania, about seasonal food, recipes and stories.
Why subscribe?
You will receive a newsletter each Wednesday. I’ll introduce you to life in our small corner of Tasmania, from the local orchards to the vast wilderness that’s on our doorstep and what it’s like to swap city life for regional living. I’ll let you know what’s growing in the garden and what I’m cooking and eating. There will be occasional recipes and a monthly digest.
What about paid subscribers?
Paid subscribers receive an additional newsletter on Friday. It’s a lottery of food-related topics - cookbook reviews, interesting snippets, additional recipes, food history and food adventures. You’ll have access to the archives and all previous recipes, along with printer-friendly versions.
What does this cost?
If you decide to become a paid subscriber, it costs $7 per month (that’s just over US$4, thanks to an exchange) or $70 a year (about US$43).
A bit about me
A long time ago, I used to be a town planner but discovered that I was much better at cooking than planning. Cooking or being a chef was never on my radar as a career option, and I sometimes wonder how different things might have been if I had discovered my love for food at a younger age. But perhaps by now, I might have been jaded and bored instead of still being inspired and really, truly loving it. At the beginning of my career transition, I was baking and preserving constantly. When the shelves in our house became weighed down by jars of jam and chutney, and we could no longer consume the amount of food I was making, I started Julia’s Pantry, selling at a local farmer’s market. Since then, I’ve studied gastronomy, had a cafe and taught cooking classes and am now back to having a market stall and cooking classes, as well as spending far too much time reading and talking about food.
In early 2020, we swapped the hot, humid weather and sub-tropical produce of Brisbane for the cold and wet and short growing season of Tasmania’s far south. We moved into an 1890s timber cottage on a couple of acres in the little town of Geeveston. Life is much slower than in the city and seems to revolve around food, in particular, the collective obsession with tomatoes!
I’m looking forward to having you here.
Julia x
