The Fresh Five
This week we talk to Tony Gallace from Regal Produce.
1. Your role at the Melbourne Market: I’m the Director of Regal Produce; and believe it or not, the boys here actually let me be the boss sometimes. Our main lines are sweet potato and ginger.
2. If you could only take three fruits or vegetables with you to a desert island, which would you take: That’s difficult because I love all my fruit. I like peaches and nectarines (any stone fruit really) and for a vegetable I’d take baby shanghai which is also known as buk-choy. It’s hard to pick just three.
3. When was the last time you bought flowers for someone: That’s an easy one, this morning! I bought flowers for my wife which I do every week, this morning I picked her out some tulips. I mostly get flowers from Halit Flowers here at the Market, they’re good people.
4. Tell us something that is on your ‘bucket list’: I was born in Italy, I came out here when I was just two years old, so that’s 68 years ago. I’d like to go back to Italy to see the house I was born in because it’s still there.
I’m actually getting pressure from the better half to go next year, so it might actually happen. I’m a historian, I love history so going to Italy and Europe would be just great.
5. What do you most enjoy about working at the Melbourne Market: The people, everyone in here knows how to have a laugh, it’s diverse and multicultural. I’ve been here 26 years and I just love it. |