Tasting The Tweed - New South Wales
Originally published in Australian CountryExcerpt
It’s just past dawn in peaceful art-deco Murwillumbah where an early morning queue has formed outside a tiny hole-in-the-wall bakery at the trendy end of town. There are plenty of skilled technicians in the pastry world but few of them are magicians like Ben Leonardi.
Beware the man who creates such unforgettable emotions in dough that you will spend the rest of your life trying to rediscover the sensation somewhere else. His Jesuit almond croissants are the springboard that catapult us forward on a road trip that’s a food-lover’s odyssey in a forgotten corner of the country.
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