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THE Taste of Tasmania is a tired event housed in a mangy old asbestos-ridden dump of a building.
Not only does the event need a makeover, Princes Wharf, where it is held, ought to be razed immediately.
This is one annual event that exemplifies the small-town- cheap mentality of Tasmania. Where else in Australia does one find an exhibition of supposedly fine food and fine wine held under a roof ridden with asbestos, where there are inadequate sanitary facilities and where customers sit on cheap plastic chairs on a concrete wharf?
The reality of the Taste is a long way removed from the breathless description of it on Hobart City Council's website.
"If you haven't been to the Taste before, you are in for a real treat. Occupying Shed 1 of the bustling Princes Wharf, the Taste sits between the sun-drenched harbour and the famous Salamanca Place, Hobart's cultural and artistic hub," the website tells us.
Frankly, the description in the editorial of this newspaper last Thursday was a good deal more accurate. As it rightly observed, the warehouse at Princes Wharf has a "bare concrete floor, absence of ventilation for cooking, lack of heating when it turns chilly...