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BushWok^© Cooking Parties^© Outdoor Cooking Parties
featuring
The BushWok^©

The BushWok^© in action

Are you weary of the same old conference dinner format, and looking for a unique and distinctly Central Australian social event that will provide great theatre, and is guaranteed to add interest and novelty to your entertainment or team-building program in Alice Springs, making your overall program a social triumph? An event which provides a facilitated down-to-earth outdoor activity that will:

Promote team-work among participants,
Enhance group problem-solving skills,
Lower barriers and help build new relationships,
Impart new skills to add to already acquired ones,
Create long-term bonding through shared memories of a fun-filled event, and
Result in a tasty banquet for all to enjoy?

BushWok^© Cooking Parties^© will provide all this, and more!!

2009

As the sun sets over the Mt John escarpment, behold the beautiful setting chosen for the Hands Across the Desert BushWok Conference Dinner adjacent to the Alice Springs Convention Centre on the 12th August 2009. In this magnificent setting, 160 conference delegates formed 20 teams of 8 delegates each to cook their contribution to the conference dinner banquet. Each team was supplied with a kit of the equipment required to prepare their meal, and to set their table for fine dining. The atmosphere was exciting, the food was fantastic, everyone had a wonderful night and the feedback from the conference so far is that the BushWok dinner was the highlight. View more scenes from the BushWok Conference Dinner below by clicking on the images.


The BushWok Conference dinner was held adjacent to the Alice Springs Convention Centre. The unique name for the conference inspired the dinner organisers to lay out the tables in a five-finger format to form a hand across the desert.


Traditional dancers opened the dinner and welcomed the delegates to Alice Springs. Roy Price, BushWok Conference Dinner organiser and facilitator, provided important information to delegates before the food preparation began.


Delegates soon began preparing their raw ingredients, while other team members got the stoves alight and ready for cooking.


By following the simple recipes, team members were quickly able to make progress towards producing their contribution to the BushWok banquet.


The spectacle of the event was magnificent and tantalising cooking aromas filled the air.


Before long the BushWok banquet table was groaning with woks filled with sumptuous food, and it was time to line up.


There were 20 different banquet items, 2 of them vegetarian dishes. Everyone enjoyed trying what others had prepared.

All tables, chairs, linen, crockery, cutlery, etc supplied by Alice Party Hire The lighting arrangement was the creative work of Rob Brackenbury of AV Sound and Lighting.	Even Assoc Professor Ted Wilkes got to have a feed.	All images above are the creative artwork of Barry Skipsey http://www.desertexpress.com.au/ skip@desertexpress.com.au Phone: 040 889 1332

2008

Look closely at the image above and you will count 8 BushWoks in action at the 2008 National Nutrition Networks Conference BushWok Cooking Party held in March 2008 at Alice Springs. In fact there were 10 BushWoks - the lady with the blue top in the bottom right of the photo is tending her BushWok, and another is also out of view. Each BushWok was used to prepare a different recipe item to contribute to the smorgasbord. All 50 conference delegates who participated thoroughly enjoyed themselves at this event, as is evidenced by the excerpts from the evaluation of the conference (see below).

BushWok^© Cooking Parties^© are the antithesis of the McDonaldization of the mainstream food industry. Food services worldwide are moving inexorably towards providing meals that are efficiently produced, predictably flavoured, emphasize quantity over quality, and deny the sharing of food preparation skills with consumers. In stark contrast, BushWok^© Cooking Parties^© provide unique culinary events where participants take an active role in their outdoor dining experience.

BushWok^© Cooking Parties^© are unique to Central Australia, highly engaging, entertaining and guaranteed to enhance interaction, networking, collaboration and bonding amongst your group, making your overall program a social triumph.

BushWok^© Cooking Parties^© for between 5 and 500 participants are facilitated cooking events conducted outdoors enabling your group to fully enjoy our beautiful Centralian evening skies. All cooking equipment and recipe ingredients are provided. Participants become the chefs, the waiters and the guests all in the same night, and thoroughly enjoy themselves while doing so.

BushWok^© Cooking Parties^© are suitable for

singles groups (eg for Valentines Day)
End of Financial Year parties
office team-building events
social get-togethers
birthday parties and other celebrations
Territory or national conference dinners, or
just for the fun of having an outdoor cooking party.

BushWok^© Cooking Parties^© are conducted at select outdoor locations around Alice Springs, or we can come to you. We are completely portable and, if necessary, independent of power and water. Cooking party options include:

BushWok International Banquet		- party participants cook and share a signature dish from somewhere around the world - Hungary, Caribbean, Russia, India, etc.

BushWok Mongolian Barbeque		- teams choose the ingredients and flavourings and stir-fry their own unique creation to share.

BushWok Bush Tucker Tango		- party participants cook meals using bush meats like camel, kangaroo, crocodile, etc flavoured with bush flavourings

BushWok Mexican Mayhem		- party participants cook dishes suitable for wrapping in tortilla

BushWok Curry Chaos		- party participants cook meals from countries renowned for curries - India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma. Your choice of mild, medium and hot curries

Group Size

Fees vary according to group size. As a general guide:

Group Size	Cost per person
up to 15 people	$150
20 to 30 people	$100
30 people or more	$75

Please note: The above prices are for the basic cooking party setup and are subject to change depending on where you want the party to be held and access to facilities like power, water, toilets, and what else you want included with the basic program, such as snacks, drinks, entertainment, dessert, and so on.

General Program Format

Participant arrival	by 6pm
Intro & BushWok Cooking Demonstration	6pm sharp
"Shopping" & Cooking	6:15pm
BushWok Smorgasbord	7:00pm
Dessert	7:30pm
Dispersal	8:00pm

Alteration to the above program is only by negotiation with BushWok Cooking Parties management

Below are excerpts from the evaluation of the National Nutrition Networks Conference held 11th to 14th March 2008 Alice Springs

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For more information, quotes and bookings contact:

Roy Price
EthiCal Nutrition Services
BN 00955413
ABN 32146439415
PO Box 1326
Alice Springs NT 0871
BushWok@ozemail.com.au
Ph 0409695949

From Iron Chef to Bush Chef

Radio Interview: ABC Bush Telegraph 13/3/2008
Outback Iron Chefs: A very special cooking challenge has been held on the banks of the Todd River in Alice Springs. A field of 50 competitors were given a wood-fired empty flour drum to cook on, a wok and a few basic ingredients and told to whip up a nutritious meal for the inaugural Outback Iron Chef Challenge.

Flour drums star in unique cooking competition

It's wok around the clock in the Alice

Nutrition innovation wins national award