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Maggie Beer’s products are now available in Japan.  Maggie Beer is one of South Australia’s best-known gourmet chefs (see here for her bio).  Maggie’s career started from humble beginnings when she and her husband opened a small shop to sell the game birds they were breeding on their farm.  This humble shop soon grew into the famed Pheasant Farm restaurant. The establishment of the Pheasant Farm and the restaurant it led to, was the start of a career that now spans farming, export, food production, and food writing.

The range of products now numbers over twenty, including meat and vegetarian pates, olive oil, verjuice, preserves condiments and deserts.  Long popular in the UK and US, Maggie’s products are now available here in Japan!

Products I can recommend are her quince paste, verjuice and her cookbook; Maggie’s Table.

   Maggie Beer's Quince Paste – perfect with sharp cheddar.

Cookbooks I Can Recommend:

My Bible:  The Cook's Companion

The Best Thai:  Thai Food

Italian:   The Silver Spoon

Decent & Easy To Follow Chinese:  The Food of China

These books are fantastic and worth every cent.  I highly recommend all of them.

Parsnips:

Parsnips are a vegetable that look like white carrots.  They have been impossible to find in
Tokyo, but recently I found them at Nissin World Delicatessen http://www.nissinham.co.jp/nwd/index.html

Parsnips are a wonderful vegetable and I am so glad they are finally available (from time to time) in Tokyo. 

Roast duck with figs and roasted parsnips