I’ve been tagged by Cucina Rebecca in Sydney to join the “Five things to eat before you die” meme. Devised by The Travellers Lunchbox, as I write this there are 103 entries, that’s 515 dishes. I know what I don’t want to eat and that’s hospital food. I’ve had this big plan just in case [...]
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Great to see The Age finally joining the food section of the bloggersphere with the launch of the Good Food Guide blog. Joint editors John Lethlean and Necia Wilden are answering readers’ questions and it is great to see the transparency of the process. First impressions? Melbourne collectively seems to agree with The Flower Drum [...]
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Perhaps your way here from the food issue of The Age (Melbourne) Magazine . If you haven’t seen the mag, London-based Aussie food writer Terry Durack quotes Anthony Bourdain from an interview with Tomato from a year ago. You can check out my full Anthony Bourdain archive. He says this of Ronnie di Stasio in [...]
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The flounder(s) at Prahran market had been winking at me for weeks. Then Shammi from Shrewsbury told me she’d recently returned from a holiday to Borth, where I caught my first flounder. If you haven’t visited Borth do so, but do it when there is a spring tide. The sea recedes by almost a mile [...]
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From next month if you work in the Melbourne CBD there will be a new more efficient method to deliver sugar directly into your system short of using a syringe. That’s right folks the latest success story in the franchise of death, the appalling Krispy Kreme fast food store, is opening on Collins Street on [...]
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Sometimes it is difficult to split food and wine bloggers because some cover both. This is the expanded list based on the link rankings from Technorati over the past couple of weeks, which means this ranking is out of date. For instance, I already know that I have dropped two places behind The Old foodie [...]
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One of Australia’s best known wine gurus, Len Evans, has died suddenly at the age of 75. According to a report from AAP he had suffered from heart problems and died in the car park of Newcastle Hospital while collecting a relative. Acording to Wikipedia, Evans transformed blind tastings into a competition sport through his [...]
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Three years ago I went on a boozy winery tour with a busload of artist mates. Somehow along the way I managed not only to buy two small olive trees, but also two magnificent French oak wine barrels to plant…
There’s a rumour that Melbourne hospitals lay on extra staff in the Emergency Department at this time of year. Yes, it's tomato season and given our vast migrant population, there will invariably be a few home-bottling and canning disasters. Every Italian…
Making yoghurt at home is really simple and doesn't take much science. Here we make two different styles of yoghurt using both cows' and goats' milk.
It took four hours of a Saturday afternoon to construct this gigantic pie.
The recipes available are all pretty similar, three different types of pork with herbs and spices surrounded by jelly and encased in a hot water pastry. This one…
There's a lot of meat and fat in a pork pie including the hot crust pastry which is made with lard and butter.
I bought a whole tub of dripping, which is basically like lard (pig fat) but from beef, as…
Five days later and the bacon is cured. Salty and sweet, with a hint of juniper and sage, it was worth it.
Nothing is ever easy for me. Frustrated by the poor quality of filling and pastry in local pork…
Recent journalismWe don't see much innovation in cookbooks nowadays but The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria is as you'd expect from one of the world's most innovative chefs.
What most…
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Three years ago I went on a boozy winery tour with a busload of artist mates. Somehow along the way I managed not only to buy two small olive trees,…
There’s a rumour that Melbourne hospitals lay on extra staff in the Emergency Department at this time of year. Yes, it's tomato season and given our vast migrant population, there…
Making yoghurt at home is really simple and doesn't take much science. Here we make two different styles of yoghurt using both cows' and goats' milk.
One of the most exciting chefs to be in town for the Sydney International Food Festival was the witty and erudite David Thompson. If you aren't familiar with Thompson, the…
I recently had a non-brush with death while eating what turned out not to be my last meal.
It made me think of all the meals I'd wasted. A bad…
Neil Perry (left), Thomas Keller and Heston Blumenthal (bald). Courtesy of the Melbourne Wine and Food Festival.
On the SBS Food site you can see my story on meeting Thomas Keller…
Typical. Just as the world peaked Paul Levi, the man who had no small part in bringing us the slightly dubious word “Foodie”, launches the Gastrosexual, a man with more…
With thanks to the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
It's 3.50 on a Friday afternoon. I've just finished a great meal cooked by Scott Pickett at The Point in Albert Park…
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