I am happy to report this works for people and for cities, as my hometown of Melbourne discovered this past weekend when the self-titled Domestic Goddess came to town to help us celebrate the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
And thus did Melbourne become a city where you go to do things, rather than to look at things. The “events capital” of the nation, and it’s a tag we take very seriously indeed. It starts in January with the Australian Open tennis, careens through March with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Australian Grand Prix, shivers through winter as the original home of Australian Rules football, places its bets in November with the Melbourne Cup horse race. And so on.
But this year it was back to full strength, and armed with a dazzling calendar of events prepared to show off the label Melbourne truly covets for itself: one of the world’s great food cities. Alice and Nigella are made for this type of soirée – both adore food with a passion that is infectious, and on their own admission they both love to natter. And natter. And natter some more. As Nigella herself put it: “Neither of us is short of a sentence or two. We can babble on for a long time and we have been babbling downstairs. Constantly. And we will babble later.”
“It’s like a dream to come back … for me, Melbourne is really feeling quite electric in the air. It really feels exciting, it feels like a beautiful creature coming to life again. And I’m very grateful. The energy is there, that creativity and spark. And that’s one of the things that Melbourne does so well, which is that there is this wonderful respect for the land and all the produce.
“I think the really important thing is to be grateful for the pleasures in life … [it’s] about things that happen every day. We must take time to take pleasure and be grateful, and being in Melbourne makes me feel that gratitude, but also I will wallow in the moment. I don’t want to rush it.”
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