Back 2 Basics Traditions

31/08/2026

✨ WE’RE HEADING TO THE ROYAL ADELAIDE SHOW! ✨

The countdown is ON! 🎡
From 5–13 September, come and find us in the Goyder Pavilion for a little taste of Southern Italy right here at the Show!

We’ll have FREE TASTINGS, delicious Italian-inspired pantry goodies, plenty of treats to discover AND a GIVEAWAY you won’t want to miss! 🎁🤤

📍 Site FW37, Goyder Pavilion | Royal Adelaide Show
📅 5–13 September 2026
🍴 Free tastings
🎁 Giveaway
🇮🇹 All things delicious!

Come for the Show… stay for the food!

01/08/2026

Last Sunday began in the garden & ended around a long, Italian inspired table.

In between, there was flour on the benches, tiny chicken polpette being rolled, pici stretched by hand, involtini filled & wrapped, olive oils compared, & George's Folly Wines wines poured beside the food.

Some of the pici were long and slender. Others were beautifully uneven - which is part of the pleasure of making them by hand.

We cooked zuppa di polpette, pici, spinach-and-ricotta involtini, followed by our honey, orange & Sambuca panna cotta.

The part we love most comes when the cooking slows down, everyone finds a place at the table, and the food begins to travel from one person to the next.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and brought such warmth, curiosity and good humour to the day.

Over the coming weeks, we’ll share more from the experience: the story behind pici, how to recognise an olive oil that has lost its freshness, and why we chose each George’s Folly pairing.

Follow along for more traditions, stories and news of our next cooking experience.

31/05/2026

George's Folly Wines will be poured through our Sunday Winter Warmers long lunch.

Not as a formal wine tasting.
Not as a separate feature.
As part of the table itself.

While we get our hands dirty making pici.
While the zuppa di polpette and involtini come together.
While the room fills with the smell of Southern Italian winter cooking.

It is the kind of food that takes you back to slow days in Italy, when the table is full, lunch lingers and there is nowhere else you need to be.

This is the kind of winter Sunday that is easy to keep putting off.

But it is also the kind of Sunday people remember - because it gives you time to step out of the ordinary, sit properly, eat well, and share something made with care.

If you’ve been thinking about joining us, we’d love to welcome you to the table.

Book your place for Sunday Winter Warmers here:
https://b2btraditions.com.au/experiences/sunday-winter-warmers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sunday_winter_warmers_phase4&utm_content=georges_folly_post

Sunday 23 August
Lockleys, South Australia

10/05/2026

Some pastas ask for machines. Pici ask for hands.

For Sunday Winter Warmers at the Italian Table, guests will make pici by hand — an old Tuscan pasta rolled under the palms into long, rustic strands. It is simple, playful and wonderfully imperfect, almost like making little skipping ropes from pasta dough.

Pici are Tuscan by birth, especially tied to southern Tuscany around Siena, the Val d’Orcia and the Val di Chiana. But the feeling behind them belongs beautifully at a Southern Italian winter table: flour and water, patient hands, strong sauces, wine poured by George's Folly Wines , and a shared table.

You do not need to be an experienced cook. The day is warm, relaxed and guided step by step.

Sunday 23 August 2026
10:00am–2:30pm
Lockleys, Adelaide
Limited places remaining

Book your place here:
https://b2btraditions.com.au/cooking-experience-sunday-winter-warmers-at-the-italian-table/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=winter_warmers_final_fill

23/04/2026

Bookings are now open for Sunday Winter Warmers at the Italian Table.

This cooking experience, inspired by southern Italian food traditions, is not a cooking demonstration. It is a welcoming, hands-on cooking experience with seasonal dishes, generous hospitality and the pleasure of cooking and eating together — with winter menu teasers including zuppa di polpette and handmade pici pasta.

Guests take part in the preparation, the cooking, the tasting and the conversation, before sitting down to enjoy a shared long lunch shaped by the season and the joy of good company. All accompanied by George's Folly Wines , Cello Liqueur and Back 2 Basics Traditions products.

Sunday 23 August 2026
10:00am–2:30pm
Strictly limited to 12 guests

Book here: https://b2btraditions.com.au/cooking-experience-sunday-winter-warmers-at-the-italian-table/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=winter_warmers_launch

A Southern Italian winter cooking experience with hands-on seasonal cooking, thoughtful local wine pairings and a shared long lunch in Lockleys.

21/04/2026

A delicious shared table from Sunday.

We had the pleasure of catering for the Rebel Heart Journeys retreat day at the Collective Soul Centre, creating a generous seasonal lunch built around comfort, colour and simple food made well.

The menu included in-season zuppa di funghi, frittata, garlic bread and fresh salads — the kind of food that feels nourishing, relaxed and made to be shared.

It is always a pleasure to create food for spaces like this, where the table becomes part of the day’s experience.

Thank you for having us.

05/04/2026

A Southern Italian (Calabrese) tradition - Easter Gute.

Instead of the chocolate Easter eggs we are all so accustomed to, we grew up with Gute - an Italian Easter “egg” made by hand and baked with whole eggs.

For generations, they have been part of Easter across Calabria, with the egg symbolising rebirth and each shape carrying its own meaning from family to family.

Not fancy. Not complicated. A delicious Easter tradition that carries more than flavour - it carries story, meaning and family.

This is what keeping tradition alive looks like.

Buona Pasqua

01/04/2026

The end-of-season abundance from our garden always inspires ideas for the next cooking experience.

It all begins here — with what’s growing, what’s in season, and what’s ready to be shared.

31/03/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our Back 2 Basics Traditions Cooking Experience.

Special thanks to and

Cent’anni 🥂

18/03/2026

Our upcoming cooking experience is now officially SOLD OUT.

Thank you to everyone who booked and supported this special collaboration between Back 2 Basics Traditions & George's Folly Wines We look forward to welcoming guests for a seasonal southern Italian cooking, local wine and shared table experience.

More dates and experiences will be announced soon.