Kerry Packer calls me from beyond the grave. “Son,” he says. “I need your help. This is embarrassing because there are as many people who want your dodgy home made stout as want to go on a photoshoot with Gourmet Traveller.” Now Kerry was a gambling man, a very good one at that. With four [...]
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Acclaimed local chef George Biron has started a blog for his soon to be reopened Sunnybrae restaurant, vegetable gardens and cooking school. The best thing about the blog is the enticing content and pictures and I know I want to be there when he next presses his olives. What George has understood is that content [...]
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Hurry and buy tickets here now. There are only two days left to buy tickets for Menu of Hope, which ends on December 21. There are some amazing prizes and here are some of the ones I’m thinking of buying tickets for aside from my own prizes which include a review with Stephen Downes (prize code AP15), a [...]
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According to the viewers of the Lifestyle Channel, who voted online for their favourite restaurants, these are the best in Melbourne:1 Taco Bill Mexican/Latin American2 Rockpool Bar and Grill Modern Australian3 Ambrosia Cafe and Bar Modern Australian4 MoVida Bar De Tapas Spanish5 Taco Bill Mexican/Latin American6 Taco Bill Mexican/Latin American7 Taco Bill Mexican/Latin American8 Taco [...]
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This is an additional prize for menu of Hope: A Tuesday night Chef’s table degustation dinner for two, including wine, to the value of $200 at Attica.The first time I visited Attica it was for the Tuesday night Chef’s Table dinner and I was stunned by the quality and innovation and the value of this chef’s table dinner [...]
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Additional prize!!!!!! Prize code AP27. A Tuesday night Chef’s table degustation dinner for two, including wine, to the value of $200 at Attica.The first time I visited Attica it was for the Tuesday night Chef’s Table dinner and I was stunned by the quality and innovation and the value of this chef’s table dinner at [...]
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Text message: “Fingers crossed customs will b nice! Will u b in the city tom afternoon/eveni?” Hmmm. The number wasn’t in my phone but I texted that I would anyway.Another text from another mystery number: “I will b at hairdresser in melb central from now …if you are able to pick up macs…should have them [...]
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I have to draw a line and call for an amnesty. The number of ideas and unwritten posts are bankrupting me and I have to wipe them out and start afresh. If you haven’t posted for sometime, why don’t you declare bankruptcy or an amnesty and start again. This means I won’t be telling you [...]
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Yes, Michael Blamey from St Kilda Today shot John Lethlean face on and possible Matt Preston in the back of the head (while Don Neil from At My Table looks on). I bought to an end of a very bloggy week of two events where food bloggers met. This second event was a media night [...]
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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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