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Culinary ambassador to cook up international interest - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)28/10/10 10:32 AMCulinary ambassador to cook up internationalinterestPosted Sat Mar 26, 2005 9:43am AEDTOne of the Northern Territory's two newly-appointed culinary ambassadors says he will take up the role almostimmediately when he travels to the US next week.Primary Industries and Fisheries Minister Kon Vatskalis has appointed Jimmy Shu, from the Hanuman Restaurant andAthol Wark, from Charles Darwin University's School of Hospitality, as culinary ambassadors for 12 months.Mr Vatskalis says both have used Territory ingredients to create localised recipes that can be used to promote tourism."Cuisine is a part of tourism," he said."People go to a place to see the scenery but if they taste the unique regional cuisine they will come back and back,and back again."Mr Wark says he will promote the Territory's unique tastes at food shows and competitions."I think there's definitely a need and a market," he said."I think now just really got to concentrate on the supply demand and getting the groundswell and education of chefsand food producers that there is merits in the development of this."Tags: travel-and-tourism, nt© 2010 ABChttp://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/03/26/1331836.htmPage 1 of 1