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Dianne Mattsson is a contributing food writer at The Advertiser and Sunday Mail, focusing on chefs, restaurants and small producers. Her 40 years of writing/editing news and features includes a decade of columns with Stonie cartoons depicting her home-kitchen disasters. She also is an author of books including FarmgateSA for good-taste travellers.

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Rose Kentish, co-founder of Sparkke, and brewer Agi Gajic with their new apple cider at the central market, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. (AAP Image/ Brenton Edwards)

The drink company that’s Sparkke-ing change

DRIVING social change, diversity, inclusiveness, social equity … they are catchcry words at Sparkke, a craft brewing company aiming to be totally different to the usual “few guys and their dogs in a shed”.

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6/9/17 Farina 00 owner/chef Lewis Marro.

Meet Farina 00 chef Lewis Marro

At age 23, Lewis Marro, opened his own restaurant, the successful Farina 00 Pasta & Wine, where he makes fresh pasta every day.

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05/06/18 - Ollfactory Inn's Simon Burr, partner Lauren Alexander and dog Edie. Pictured at their Strathalbyn restaurant with a fresh whole carp and a plated dish of carp.Picture: Tom Huntley

You won’t roo the day you ate carp

DESPITE “hostile attacks” online, slow sales, and evidence of local resistance, a brave band of restaurateurs are focusing on environmentally-friendly foods such as wallaby, kangaroo and European carp.

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Dianne Mattsson reviews Fedora’s, Hilton Hotel

GROUP dinners are so much fun. But when those unknown friends you might never see again are matching the laughs with $20 cocktails at the other end of the table, it can get expensive.

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Dishes at Mimasu, King William St, Adelaide. ex Dianne Mattsson

Dianne Mattsson reviews Mimasu

FUSION Japanese, I really think so. It works so well that we’re stumped by an enticing menu that’s a bit too long to graze it all.

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Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Britain's Meghan, Duchess of Sussex return in a horse-drawn carriage after attending the Queen's Birthday Parade, 'Trooping the Colour' on Horseguards parade in London on June 9, 2018. The ceremony of Trooping the Colour is believed to have first been performed during the reign of King Charles II. In 1748, it was decided that the parade would be used to mark the official birthday of the Sovereign. More than 600 guardsmen and cavalry make up the parade, a celebration of the Sovereign's official birthday, although the Queen's actual birthday is on 21 April. / AFP PHOTO / Niklas HALLEN

Where Harry and Meghan should go in SA

WITH Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan Markle to visit Australia in October, we’ve made a list of the best food and tourism spots in SA to lure them to the state.

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16/10/15 - chef Rosa Dantas at her tart cart, which will start outdoors in Topham Mall next week in front of Lady Burra - - pic Mike Burton

ON THE GRILL

We sit down with Lady Burra chef Rosa Dantas

South Australia

23/10/15 - Andrew "Cosi" Costello, who's popular travel promos," South Aussie with Cosi", has signed a lucrative deal for his SA show with China. Picture Dean Martin

Cosi sells our state to China

ALMOST two million Chinese TV viewers will soon be soaking up the virtues of South Australia through the eyes of ever-irreverent, ever-parochial Andrew “Cosi” Costello.

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