From the monthly archives:

October 2005

And now the $10 beer

by Ed on October 28, 2005

Well, A$9.99 from IGA in St Kilda: 650ml of 5% alcohol imported premium Sapporo. Drink with your $100 wagyu beef burger (order by prior arrangement).

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Yes, it looks like the Margie Noir from Umbaba in London’s West End is the world’s most expensive cocktail. It’s called the Magie Noir and costs

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Melbourne food bloggers unite

by Ed on October 26, 2005

I’ve just added the breakfast blog to this list and realised I duplicated What I Cooked last Night/Very Good Cooking.
I’d send out an email, but I suppose this is the way to do it on the blogspere. I’ll see if I get a response this way first. I’ve noticed that the Sydney bloggers and English [...]

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The Bulletin: Whose restaurant rules?

by Ed on October 26, 2005

My story about the egos and clashes behind the restaurant awards season appears in The Bulletin (that’s our local version of Newsweek) today.
The brief agreed with news editor Tim Blair was end of restaurant awards guide season, bruised egos etc.
Innocent questions stimulated an interesting response from the people behind The Age (our local daily [...]

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Food blogging arrives in Melbourne

by Ed on October 25, 2005

Finally The Age in Melbourne has bought into the food blogging story. Naturally the famous bloggers Chez Pim and Clotilde at Chocolate & Zucchini are mentioned.
Food blogging is much bigger overseas than in Australia so it makes complete sense that they should draw attention. And, hey, blogging is a global thing.
The Age managed to [...]

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Picture of Shannon Bennett, Australia’s hottest chef pinched, from Saxton Speakers Bureau.The Melbourne vs Sydney food debate is one that is going to run and run. Last night the debate was in Melbourne’s favour at the Gourmet Traveller 2006 restaurant guide awards. Melbourne chef Shannon Bennett’s Vue de Monde (Normanby Chambers, 430 Little Collins [...]

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Calling all Aussie bloggers

by Ed on October 23, 2005

The November edition of Gourmet Traveller is out in a few days and the mag will be running a competition to recruit new critics for the next edition of the National Restaurant Guide. Shiny prizes, your name up in lights, the works. The 2006 awards are being presented Monday night and there could be a [...]

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IMBB 20: Has my lemon souffle fallen?

by Ed on October 23, 2005

IMBB # 20 + SouffleI’ve always loved souffles. Hot, twice cooked or cold, the egginess and lightness have always gone to my head. So it is with relish that I approach IMBB20: Has my blog fallen, my third event of the weekend.This is one that creates a photgrapic challenge to capture the souffle before a [...]

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Image pinched from the Humane Society International.For obvious reasons I don’t have my own picture for this entry for the Cooking the Old fashioned way quarterly event. I’ve long been fascinated by the kinds of old-fashioned foods that we no longer bother eating.At mama Tomato’s, in country England not too far from the university city [...]

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I’m probably a bit stupid trying this one. Especially after arriving home at 3am from a mammoth beer and kebab session. But alcohol is alcohol and it’s addled my brain.Here goes.Chilli chocolate leaves would have been a better, more practical choice. With the addition of cream and butter the truffle mixture melts if you look [...]

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Sorrell risotto: the comic

by Ed on October 19, 2005

Please let me know if you think these comic file sizes are too slow to upload – they are about 300kb. Cheers

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In search of a small red

by Ed on October 19, 2005

Kangaroos are at the waterhole. Lizards and snakes bake on the road. Bees buzz in the clover while parrots dart in between the vines. Welcome to Australia’s Pyrenees. Drought has hit some of the vinyards hard. They haven’t had a decent drop of rain since December 2002.
This has brought down yields and makes it the [...]

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Waspish restaurant critic AA Gill in The Times:”A restaurant has just had lavatory paper printed with my face on it. Frankly, I couldn’t be more flattered or charmed. From what I remember, it will be by far and away the most tasteful piece of design in the place.”

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I think I’ve written this before but I’ll repeat it: Work is the enemy of blogging.I have been hard at work and nibbling at my package from Samantha at The Samantha Files.I was on the phone interviewing the CEO of a local Internet company. He mentioned the Blog word, the dogs went crazy and hey [...]

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Wine Blogging wednesday

by Ed on October 17, 2005

The next wine blogging Wednesday Event on November 2 is being hosted by Gastronomie-SF and gives the particularly knarly challenge of finding a wine produced in volumes of less than 250 cases with bonus points for the producer making less than a 1,000 in total.We’re in and spent the weekend scouring the Pyrenees and found [...]

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