Toast Festival: Meeting John Torode.

Let me start by saying John is alot better looking in person than on masterchef. Here’s me, reporting on the relevant action which took place at the Toast Festival - Australia Day.

“Its that bloke from Masterchef….check it out.”

As you can probably tell, I am completely a fan. I handed my super swish, hulk of a NEW camera (yes I am now a D700 owner now) to my better half for some keepers.

Yes, please make that out to ‘Kang’. He’s signing a copy of his beefcyclopedia entitled ‘BEEF’. I wrote a review on it several moons ago here, and really thought his book was great. I love beef, and one can really tell that it was written by a beeflover too. It was all too appropriate to find Mr Torode grilling meat on a ‘hot’ Sunday afternoon in a park in Saarf London.

Don’t be shy John, get some grease on yer book, come on.

Yup, I got it, a very cool autograph, made with a waterproof marker, also courtesy of the special one. So John wrote: ‘Kang, Enjoy Bij La, John’. Am I reading it wrong? What the heck is ‘Bij La’ ? Anybody?

Naturally, I ate from SOS; this is John’s Dog. £5. The bread was the highlight, very soft, almost marshmallow like. As for the dog itself, I thought it needed just a tad more oommph, but John cooked in on the barbie and putting my fan-hat on; it tasted great.

All in all, a pleasant afternoon. There were mainly stalls which did food & wine, and lots of chairs and tables about for people laze around, which for a Sunday afternoon, was rather perfect. I managed a shot of the concert area too, it wasn’t overpacked, which was a good thing for myself, and about the only thing I missed out on - because of the massive queues - was this free wine tasting event they had on in a few of the tents.

Just want to send shouts to Rebecca for the free tickets, and also to you guys who went, I didn’t bump into anyone but I hope you had a good time there as well.

And here are some more pictures from the event:

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