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Episode 4: Island Time

Matthew, Nick and Ross recreate a historic menu celebrating the joining of Tasmania to Australia by telephone cable in 1936, ending 8,000 years of isolation for the island.

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After 8,000 years of isolation, Tasmania was once again joined to mainland Australia when a telephone cable was installed across Bass Strait. Matthew, Ross and Nick travel westward across the north coast, heading for the port of Stanley. Here, they want to re-create the historic menu from the 1936 inauguration of the cable, at a dinner for 50 people.

 

Recipes

Champ

Whisky-cured smoked trout

Potato pancakes with smoked trout

Potato tortilla with roasted wild mushrooms

Salad of beetroot-cured trout, grapefruit, goat’s curd and salmon roe


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