Shalom's Jewish Food Festival

Shalom’s Jewish Food Festival returns for a mouth-watering celebration of Jewish cuisine, culture and food sustainability! Join us to savour the rich tapestry of Sydney’s Jewish culinary heritage.

The Food Festival boasts a range of food stalls with sweet and savoury delicacies that trace the journey of Jewish migration across the globe. In addition to the opportunity to fress, there will be live entertainment, cooking demonstrations and competitions, and sustainability workshops.

Free demonstrations:

• Ella Rossanis, Winner of The Great Australian Bake Off, teaches us how to make a Use It All Lemon Meringue Pie. Ella's unique and vibrant concoctions are as wonderfully creative as they are delicious. With a zero-waste approach this sensational dish is ticks all the boxes.

• Get all the challah tips and tricks for a perfect challah from much-loved TV chef, author and personality, 'Fast' Ed Halmagyi. After 20 years on Seven’s Better Homes and Gardens, Ed's new chapter includes his much anticipated new bakery Avner's which opens soon in Surry Hills.

• Up your lunch box game with Jo Taranto, a Sydney-based sustainability educator and speaker. Her skill is dissecting sustainability trends and insights from science and industry. Expect to leave with a renewed enthusiasm to lean into the disruption of a decarbonised and circular future and an arsenal of zero-waste lunch box ideas.

Workshops:

• Dry Hard with a Veg-eance: The art of preservation – learn to dry fruit and vegetables at home. All ingredients and equipment provided.

• Ferment like a Bubbe! Learn the basic principles of lacto-fermentation and pickling. Kimchi, sauerkraut, apple cider vinegar.

• How to grow your own fruit and vegetables: Learn how propagate with scraps from the fridge.

• Sourdough focaccia creation: Learn to make your own sourdough focaccia with zero-waste decoration. The yeast we can do is is give you the sourdough starter too.