The Dinner Party at Windy Station

 

The anticipation of a golden evening at The Dinner Party at Windy Station starts long before passing through the Windy Station gates. The awe of driving through the Liverpool Plains at sunset, past expansive paddocks of bright yellow canola, grazing cattle, and large irrigation rigs, fills you with pride that this is one of the most productive food growing regions in Australia.

Arriving at the 24,000-hectare property Windy Station the big agriculture theme continues, seeing the extraordinary Windy Woolshed where workers sheared 60,000 sheep when it was built in 1901. The Dinner Party at Windy Station is the first of a calendar of biannual events to bring visitors to the Liverpool Plains to experience the incredible landscape, heritage, and local, seasonal food. Windy Station agritourism manager Clare Lee brings together like minded foodies to give guests a memorable destination dining experience. Last night’s The Dinner Party at Windy Station grouped food writer, Sophie Hansen, chef Cathy Armstrong, and In Two Minds winemaker Kate Day to toast “food as a backdrop to connection.”

Cathy’s menu featuring humble good flavours, and Clare’s welcoming long table created the feeling of a big family dinner, buoyed by Sophie’s compelling interviewing and storytelling. Thank you to the Windy Station team and guests for elevating the work of agricultural communities to feed and clothe us, and awareness of the Liverpool Plains’ epic contribution.

 

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