Good Food hat 15 / 20 How we score Contemporary $$$ $ According to the Gregorian calendar and the date stamp next to my mugshot, today is November 8, 2024. According to the Noongar calendar, however, today is part of kambarang : the second spring after djilba as well as the season of rebirth. Kambarang, it’s worth mentioning, is also synonymous with new beginnings.
Once upon a Margaret River Gourmet Escape , Indigenous cooking students from across WA came together as part of the Kambarang South West Aboriginal Gourmet Experience. In 2022, the long-standing Waldeck’s in Bentley changed its name to Kambarang Garden Centre. And finally, the spirit of Kambarang is fuelling the food currently being served at Wildflower, COMO The Treasury’s rooftop fine-diner atop the State Buildings precinct.
Since Wildflower opened in 2015, the restaurant’s menus have drawn inspiration from the six seasons of the Noongar calendar: a powerful statement of intent that reinforced the Buildings’ mission to celebrate all aspects of West Australian culture. (Wildflower’s menu, I’ll admit, was my first introduction to the Noongar six-season calendar.) Yet over the years, I’ve also found myself hoping for more direct connections between what was on my plate – sharply executed, edible Australiana – and the words written on the Wildflower menu: lyrical, evocative descriptions of the Noongar seasons.
For instance, if the preamble for kambarang mentions the freshwater crayfish gilgie as a.
