Welcome to the Gourmet Shopper - a site where being a gourmet is the only prerequisite you need to go shopping. And why wouldn't you when you have the opportunity to purchase the best products Australia can offer. Freshly milled and whole spices and herbs and wonderful aromatic mixtures to go with your favourite foods and cuisines; coffees grown in the lush hinterland of Northern NSW; fresh cheeses from all around Australia straight to your table; olive oil; verjuice; fresh pasta; luscious jams and preserves; biscuits and many other delights.

The team of experts at Gourmet Shopper is sourcing wineries, bakers, growers of special produce, cooking equipment specialists to add to the list of merchants from whom you can shop. There will be specials from cooking schools around Australia and food and travel information for those of you who want to hone your culinary skills in the countries of origin.

Our first merchants on the site include:
Ian Hemphill - Herbie's Spices - the specialist herb and spice merchant
Carolyn Scott - Australian Farmhouse Cheeses and Redgate Farm - an enormous selection of produce from dedicated growers and cheese makers
Robert and Annie Webber - The Coffee Works
Anna Peters - Anna's Cuisina
Judi Borschman - The Beechworth Sweet Co
Jayne Thatcher - Beechworth Preserves
Eileen Wise - Kookaburra Beach- the prizewinning biscuit makers from the Sunshine Coast.

The Gourmet Shopper site was started as a specialist addition to the Ozevillage site where we put together an Australian shopping community which offered online shoppers the opportunity to buy high quality Australian goods from their source. The dedication of the gourmet food purveyors led us to make the decision to set up a food village, which only sells the best of local ingredients to the food lover.

Because we know that once you have entered our world of beautiful foods you will want to enjoy more than just shopping, we will be offering you membership in our Loyalty Club. You will be able to join chat rooms with the merchants and exchange ideas on recipes with your fellow foodies. Every month we will feature news on food trends, information on products, recipes, hints, overseas food updates, produce markets and cooking school information and much more.

When you enter Gourmet Shopper you are not only entering a shopping precinct but a world of connoisseurs like yourself. You are joining a community of like minded people who do not eat to live, but live to eat - and eat well.

We at Gourmet Shopper are proud to be part of the food renaissance that has swept Australia and are proud that we can offer you the chance to buy delicious foods whether you live in a major city, a country town or in the outback. Join us and come on a culinary journey that you will never want to leave.

See you next month

The Happy Gourmet

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Did you know: The French slang expression for a lover of fine food is Becfin. Try that out next time you want to impress!