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Friday January 29, 2021
Cairns Local News
Definitely nuts!
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NICOLE GIBSON
THE next level version of a pantry staple is attracting a cult following of fans across Australia, from weight loss advocates to culinary buffs, thanks to a Palm Cove couple’s passion for peanuts. Local business, The Peanut Project say customers are lining up to get their hands on their all natural peanut butter made from hi-oleic peanuts grown on the Atherton Tablelands and manufactured in Palm Cove. Owners Adam Clarke & Sofie Connolly relaunched the business in December after acquiring it when they bought Palm Cove café favourite, 27 degrees, six months ago. Mr Clarke said being locally made and the health benefits of hi-oleic peanuts were part of the product’s appeal however taste was the driving factor behind its popularity. “Sometimes it’s hard to incorporate something that’s really healthy with no additives to try and sweeten it up or make it taste in a different way,” Mr Clarke said. “You don’t need to do that with this product because the peanuts are so good from the start that is just tastes good straight off the bat.” In addition to the taste,
Artist Phil Rooney (right)
Tour de force of region’s artists TANYA MURPHY
Mr Clarke said hi-oleic peanut butter was popular with health advocates due to its abundance of good quality fats, high protein and nutrients. “People that are dieting, people that are training heavily or anything like that, it’s very, very nourishing for your body,” he said. The Peanut Project is also rooted in history using the very same peanut mill, variety of nuts and process to make peanut butter as FNQ’s iconic but now closed business, The Peanut Place in Tolga. Mr Clarke said The Peanut Place lived on through their
business in a sense as a result. “We continue to buy the exact same peanuts and use the same process,” Mr Clarke said. “The only thing we’ve changed is we now do a smunchy which is a cross between smooth and crunchy peanut butter with just that little bit of grit.” The business is currently in the process of launching its wholesale operations. In the meantime, peanut butter fans can get their hands on the gooey goodness from 27 degrees café.
WINNERS
DON’T miss your last chance this weekend to view the winners and entries in Cairns Art Society’s 73rd Annual Art Exhibition, which closes on Sunday January 31. This is the premier art competition for Far North Queensland, and with this year’s entrants hailing from as far north as Cooktown and all the way down to Mission Beach, it is a tour de force of the region’s best artists. With some artists placing two entries, there were 145 individual works received, from which the pre-judging panel chose 50 entries to be placed into the Cairns Art Gallery for final judging. The awards presentation took place at the Cairns Art Gallery on Friday, January 15.
• Best in Show: Marion Ireland Award – ‘Over Rooled’ Vinyl cut relief print by Robert ‘Tommy’ Pau. • Warren Entsch Award: Best Oil Painting – ‘Tropical 1’ by Antonino Cambra • Tropical Art Framers Award: Best Watercolour painting – ‘Red Onions’ by Kathy Small • Warren Entsch Award: Best Acrylic Painting – ‘The Mangrove’ by Carole King •C airns Create It Award: Best Mixed Media – ‘The Strippers’ by Amanda Emmett • Australian Art Framers Award: Best Drawing – ‘Kenny’ by Lyn Bartollo • High Scan Award: Best Computer Manipulated/ Generated/ Digital Artwork – ‘Cut in Half’ by Mark Cochrane. • Sherry Jones Award: Best 3D Artwork – ‘A Tapestry of Paper Dreams’ by Toni Rogers Marcelle Dieben. • Ink Masters Award: Best Printmaking Artwork – ‘Over Rooled’ by Robert ‘Tommy’ Pau Highly Commended Awards • ‘Cooktown Slipway’ by Peter McGregor • ‘Millenia to Create Decades to Destroy’ by Amanda Emmett • ‘The Four Elements’ by Heidi Fischer • ‘Morning Walk’ by Iana Mitricheva • ‘Hope’ by Angela Fielding • ‘Rainforest Form’ by Lone White • ‘Crayfish Creation Story’ by Daniel O’Shane
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