By Goya Dmytryshchak
The Slow Fish Festival is coming to Spotswood, hosted by Slow Food Melbourne.
There’ll be cooking demonstrations by some of Australia’s best-loved chefs, stalls with fresh and cooked seafood, local craft beer and wine and talks by fishers, marine scientists, distributors, chefs, cooks and consumers.
Festival-goers will learn about sustainable seafood, ocean health and the Australian fishing industry.
Ashley Davis, from Seddon’s Copper Pot, will be among local chefs doing demonstrations.
“My philosophy on food is to find the best produce I can as close as possible to where the restaurant’s situated, and to treat it with respect,” he said.
“We use a lot of local farmers that deliver direct to our door, and off the back of that we try to be responsible about our part in the food chain.”
Some of his fish is sourced from Williamstown’s Phil McAdam, who is the third generation of his family to work as a commercial fisher in the bay.
The festival will have lessons in foraging for edible seaweed, speed dating a fisherman and oyster shucking.
The headline speaker is Matthew Evans, star of SBS’s Gourmet Farmer and What’s the Catch, who will do Q-and-A sessions and cooking demonstrations, as well as sharing tips and tricks for preparing seafood at home.
Food options will range from delicacies such as sea urchin and abalone to old-fashioned fish and chips.
Slow Fish Festival will be on Sunday, March 3, from 10am-4pm at the Spotswood Kingsville RSL and grounds, 16 Mary Street, Spotswood.
Entry costs $10 or $5 for children under-16; $25 for families. Cooking demonstrations: $10.
Tickets: slowfishaustralia.com
