Appologies but all my links to previous posts are broken with the move to WordPress. Please bear with me while i try and work out an easy way – rather than trawling through 400 posts – to fix them.
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October 2006
Frustrated by over 250 spam comments a day, the difficulty in plugins and upgrades to Movable Type I’m upgrading to WordPress. It will take me a while to adjust feeds and add features but please bear with me. Especially on the feed side. Normal service will be resumed very soon. Promise
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Last week at my wine group lunch at Oyster (35 Little Bourke St, Melbourne 300 Vic +61 3 9650 0988) I couldn’t help but notice the steak knives. They have the classic shape and even the trademark bee. But sorry, these are not Laguiole but a blatant copy by Maxwell & Williams. I am very [...]
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“Judging Australian wine shows is the closest I’ve ever come to hand-to-hand combat.” So says wine writer Tim Atkin the Uk’s The Observer: “No one actually exchanges punches, but the verbal fisticuffs can be brutal. If you’re brought up to be polite and to consider someone else’s point of view, the bare-knuckle opinions can come [...]
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There’s food, booze – the lot – at Veg Out in St Kilda this Sunday (29 October from 11am) which is holding it’s annual open day. I’ll be doing my best Gordon Ramsay impression on the BBQ between 2.00 and 3.00. And if you want anything too fancy you can fuck off. Actually, I’d really [...]
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Beer not only tends to create fools but is meant to be foolproof. You know, just crack the can or bottle and swig it down. Or just visit a pub. Then this 5 litre monster lands on my doorstep. Wow, that reminds me of my student days although I never did manage ten pints – [...]
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Spicy Chorizo is red hot right now. At The Cheese Shop Deli at Prahran Market you can buy this local made stuff from Lara, near Geelong. It’s made by Angel Cardoso who I gather is a retired engineer. When I start slicing the stuff the dogs, who usually are curled up inside my desk at [...]
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CAPTION COMPETITION: Kylie (left) and Monique from the Tomato posse want your caption suggestions. Monsieur Truffe truffles for the winners. I’ve a bloody awful headache but it went something like this: Tomato: “My friend Neil wants to know why you didn’t just kick Marco Pierre White in the bollocks.” Gordon Ramsay: “We scrapped a couple [...]
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I was becoming jealous of all the Gordon Ramsay tales from Sydney and thought I was missing out. It appears he is a bit of a ladies man wooing Cucina Rebecca, kissing Julia and offered a bit of Mr Darcy for Augustus Gloop. Now I’ve been unexpectedly invited to a Gordon Ramsay supper at Lamaro’s [...]
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Things got pretty uncomfortable over lunch at Fifteen last Friday. We’d already been through the good bits and I suppose probing questions I asked investor/property developer Adam Garrisson didn’t mix with food. Actually, they didn’t mix with his views. And that is probably why he then called me 9.30pm Saturday night. He and Toby Puttock [...]
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The star of the show: a greek salad as a martini “Great drink. Amazing food…Rating 10! Sue & Jacq” Text message from the neighbours after I sent them to The Press Club. There’s a lot to like at The Press Club. Well, apart from chef George Calombaris’s brutal haircut. He’s dropped all that whacky molecular [...]
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