Let me start by saying John is alot better looking in person than on masterchef. Here’s me, reporting on the relevant action which took place at the Toast Festival – Australia Day.
“Its that bloke from Masterchef….check it out.”
As you can probably tell, I am completely a fan. I handed my super swish, hulk of a NEW camera (yes I am now a D700 owner now) to my better half for some keepers.
Yes, please make that out to ‘Kang’. He’s signing a copy of his beefcyclopedia entitled ‘BEEF’. I wrote a review on it several moons ago here, and really thought his book was great. I love beef, and one can really tell that it was written by a beeflover too. It was all too appropriate to find Mr Torode grilling meat on a ‘hot’ Sunday afternoon in a park in Saarf London.
Don’t be shy John, get some grease on yer book, come on.
Yup, I got it, a very cool autograph, made with a waterproof marker, also courtesy of the special one. So John wrote: ‘Kang, Enjoy Bij La, John’. Am I reading it wrong? What the heck is ‘Bij La’ ? Anybody?
Naturally, I ate from SOS; this is John’s Dog. £5. The bread was the highlight, very soft, almost marshmallow like. As for the dog itself, I thought it needed just a tad more oommph, but John cooked in on the barbie and putting my fan-hat on; it tasted great.
All in all, a pleasant afternoon. There were mainly stalls which did food & wine, and lots of chairs and tables about for people laze around, which for a Sunday afternoon, was rather perfect. I managed a shot of the concert area too, it wasn’t overpacked, which was a good thing for myself, and about the only thing I missed out on – because of the massive queues – was this free wine tasting event they had on in a few of the tents.
Just want to send shouts to Rebecca for the free tickets, and also to you guys who went, I didn’t bump into anyone but I hope you had a good time there as well.
And here are some more pictures from the event:
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Tags: australia day, beef, john torode, toast festival
Oh my goodness – bizarro! that concert shot, that was EXACTLY where i was sitting (next to the girl with the white dress)! You must have got that shot just when I went to get a drink or something! Hehe.. I thought the festival was soso. I got some good ol’ aussie treats though, so am happy with that, and Sneaky Sound System rawked
nice work kang! we just recently had John as a special guest on Masterchef Australia.
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You do look quite happy with your signed book! Bij La = Big love?
Wow, amazing moody skies.
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Signing books doesn’t get any tougher than this!!
Somebody looks like a happy bunny
oh and congratulations on the autograph!!
You do look like a happy bunny 
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Wonderful shots. Absolutely stunning photography.
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Loving that second picture of you pointing at John!
Total fandom! Gotta just relax and be a fan sometimes, right?
No idea on the bij la!
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Catty – Bizzaro indeed !! So we could have met…but didnt, better luck next time I am supposing
Howard – thanks, hows the knee doing?
Graphic Foodie -ahhh that’s probably what it was, yes Big Love to you too John
Toasted Special – I always get a rush getting autographs!
r khooks – oh so very happy indeed!
Just Cook it – thank you
its a new camera!!
Kavey – oh I am so totally a fan, and yes, have to sit back and just enjoy it sometimes
heh the knee, let’s just say I won’t be doing any Chris Paul cross overs anytime soon!
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Brilliant!
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Hi Kang,
Just noticed I write in exactly the same style (very strangely)and I’m pretty sure my enjoy bijla would have meant to say Enjoy big lad!Hope it helped. He’s a great guy isn’t he.A great enabler of people. Take Care. Helen