COOKING UP A TASTY STORM

INDIA Bellamy, 26, has just the tonic for this year’s Taste of Tasmania festival — organic tea. She will be offering refreshing drinks from the Storm+India stall — one of 28 new offerings at this year’s festival.

The Taste opens at 11am today and runs for seven days.

NEW flavours will be on offer for those making their way to the Taste of Tasmania today, with local business Storm+India one of the many first-time stalls at the festival.

This year’s event will have 28 brand new stallholders, including the Bellamy family and their organic tea business.

Named after sisters Storm and India Bellamy, the company started five years ago in New Zealand.

The family business returned to its home country and state six months ago and has continued on an organic farm in Longford in Tasmania’s North. The sisters’ mother Dooley Crighton-Bellamy, who was co-founder of Bellamy Organics, also helps out with the business and said the festival will start a new chapter for Storm+India.

“The Taste is a great way to reconnect with our home and show the locals our fantastic product,” Ms Crighton-Bellamy said.

India Bellamy is a plant-based chef and said the drinks on offer at her stall, including hot and cold teas, along with plant-based lattes, will have more benefits than just being tasty.

“We are really into the wellness space,” Ms Bellamy said.

“Every drink has a different quality to help you feel good.

“The Evening Detox is good for managing cortisol in stressful moments and helps you digest food. The Morning Detox is good at energising you and help start your metabolism.”