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The Rocks Aroma Festival
For over a hundred years, The Rocks was the hub of Sydney's international trade, where cargo including coffee from Batavia (modern day Jakarta) and later from Brazil, spice from India and tea from China was off-loaded into warehouses lining Campbells Cove.
The Rocks was also the centre of the trade of tea and coffee with merchants known to have been established in the area from as early as the 1850s. Still a household name today, Bushells set up their headquarters in The Rocks in 1904 and the Andronicus family established their first Sydney coffee house in 1910.
The Aroma Festival celebrates The Rocks' importance in the trade of our two favourite brews plus our love for spice and addiction to chocolate, brought to Australia from the four corners of the globe.
Divided into four world regions - the Orient, the Latin Quarter, the Continent adn the Oasis - Aroma is an international indulgence of the sensory: with the pungency of Arabian coffee, the heady explosion of spice as it hits the nose, the satin quality of Belgian chocolate as it melts on the tongue and the clean refreshing flavour of the first sip of a green or jasmine tea.
Date: Sunday 18 July 2010
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