28 October 2013

ANGUS BEEF

Some things I do are a real privilege. We drove to Rotorua for dinner last week. Angus Beef was holding their World Conference for Angus Beef farmers in the convention centre in that city and on the penultimate evening a celebratory dinner was staged.

The first Angus cattle, a shipment of eight beasts, arrived in Otago 150 years ago and to honour that historic occasion the Angus Association her einvited Chef Greg Heffernan to create an Angus beef dinner. The picture above was our beefy entree and it was followed by a gargantuan plate of the fabulous roast Angus beef. No rooom for vegetarians at this table!

Suffice to say all our beef was totally succulent and delicious. The entertainment, a re-enactment of the arrival with both a Maori welcome and a full Scottish Pipe band from the Manawatu really was truly spectacular. Who knew the Angus had so much history here?