Australian_Gourmet_Traveller_May_2017

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DIGITAL DETOX

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WANÅS ESTATE

PHOTOGRAPHY ALAMY (SOPES) & JULIAN KINGMA (IVA FOSCHIA)

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SCANDI CHIC

IN WOOD

Baltzar and Kristina Wachtmeister

are the eighth generation of the

Wachtmeister family to run Wanås

Estate, an organic dairy farm

and forestry estate in Skåne, in

southern Sweden, with its own

medieval castle and sculpture park

in a beech forest. Kristina, an

architect, has converted two

18th-century barns into a

Scandi-luxe 11-room boutique hotel

with floors made from oak milled

on the estate and a restaurant

serving food that’s mostly farmed

or foraged on site. Hotel guests

have free run of the sculpture park,

which is so close to nature that

cows graze around artist Maya

Lin’s wondrous land art piece,

Eleven Minute Line, in one

of Wanås’s oldest paddocks.

wanasrh.se

BEYOND THE TACO

While we may have gone a little taco-crazy thanks to

some better examples appearing on Australian shores,

there are plenty more tortilla tricks we’re yet to see.

Tlayudas, for instance, are crisp tortillas topped with

the likes of rendered pork fat, Oaxacan cheese and

shredded meat, memelas comprise a slightly thicker,

sturdier corn tortilla that can be stuffed with

slow-cooked meat or something closer to a hash

brown, and then there are sopes, which are thick like

a memela but with a crunchy exterior and pinched

sides that cradle their filling.

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SOPES