Well done Tim Blair for spotting that Australian of the Year Tim Flannery buys local produce, but when at lunch with Margaret Fulton drinks water that is bottled some 15,000km away. Check out the bottle of shame here.
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May 2007
Politically correct ginger beer: what’s wrong with this picture? Well Jeremy Clarkson is in trouble again. This time for describing a car as being “very ginger beer”. It didn’t matter that an audience member of Top Gear said it was a bit gay. Just that he used the rhyming slang. Well there is plemty of [...]
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The imperfect sandwich from Il Fornaio. Thursday: It was a perfect sunny autumn day. There I was on the beach with my chicken sandwich when I hit an unexpected crunch. Crispy bacon, that’s okay. Then I hit something chewy. yuk! It was some cartilage and tendons from the chicken. Spit. Another bite and more tendons. [...]
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Though I live in Australia each month The Observer Food Monthly is required reading online and then in print (sent by my mum). This week it launches its food blog with restaurant critic and writerJay Rayner contributing among others. He seems to have the right idea in his first post although there are more than [...]
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A heady aroma rises from the bag of truffles at Simon Johnson (12-14 Saint David Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065 +61 3 9486 9456) This may seem extravagant but frame it within the cost of eating out. In Melbourne, in most decent restaurants, a main costs $30 to $40. It is difficult to find more than [...]
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When Phil at Phnomenon opted into the “interview me” meme I sent him some questions. On Wednesday I met Phil at Bar Lourinha (37 Little Collins St) for lunch and probably should have whipped out my MP3 recorder and interviewed there and then. We talked about all sorts of stuff, the problems facing Cambodia, the [...]
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When I was young I made all sorts of drinks. Ginger beer, especially the alcoholic kind, was a favourite to sell at school. I also made beer with real hops, cider from apples and various varieties of wine, the most memorable being from rhubarb and white currents. Actually, the strongest memory I have of this [...]
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I’d actually been a bit off Heathcote Shiraz after I was last year boffed fairly and squarely in the face by one. But I’d recently the virtual winemaker Adam Foster, who is also the sommelier at local restaurant Three, One, Two and then I saw it or sale at Annie Smithers. I picked up a [...]
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Can you tell which was cooked for 30 mins at 60C? The scene is set to cook the perfect lamb chops, which I shall serve with a foolproof Greek salad, which I’ll deconstruct that another time. The first thing is to ensure you have good meet. For their tiny size and lack of fat I [...]
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One of the things I like about eating out is to be challenged by new food and wine experiences. Some restaurants don’t manage either but Annie Smithers Bistrot in Kyneton manages both. In fact it offers a wine by the glass from a grape that is unique in Australia to a single winemaker, Gapsted. We’re [...]
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Well look what landed in my in tray this week – Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) and Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection: Reinventing Kitchen Classics. Having recently spent an afternoon in the kitchen with Robin Wickens, a local chef of a similar [...]
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