the hub feast

A few weeks ago I went to my first Hub Feast in Kings Cross. For anyone unfamiliar with the Hub, it’s a virtual and physical network designed to “inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world.” We’re talking social, cultural and environmental challenges here.

Holly is the brains behind the new community project Food Stuff, and organises these monthly pot-lucks, bringing people together to discuss food issues and eat each others dishes. This month’s theme was ‘guerrilla food’, and Rambling Restaurant was invited to come in and start the discussion. I’d never heard the term ‘guerilla food’ before, but am liking it more than ‘pop-up’ right now and feel like it fits well to what we are doing – chaotic, unpredictable, surprising events. It also sparked a lot of jokes about actual gorilla food and all the various things we could do with bananas.

I cooked up my lemon curd meringue roulade (recipe to follow), while Rambling Mei and Sarah made several batches of addictive Banana Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Cream Cheese Frosting.

We sampled the massive range of salads, dips, bread, quiche, cheese and other delights brought by other Hub Feasters. My favourite was the carrot, ginger and beetroot salad and a potato salad that got hoovered up in the first five minutes. We talked food and sustainability with Forum for the Future and met many other excitable eaters.

Watch this space for details of summer Hub Rambles to come.