Mint julep 1806 Bugger! Just as I decide to drink the menu at 1806 in the city I decide to join the Febfast challenge as part of my frugal February. The idea is that give give up booze for a whole month and people – you perhaps – sponsor me with the money going to [...]
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The Bloggies nominations are out. Go on give them a hand and vote for local food blogs. Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog: The Breakfast Blog Milk and Cookies Best Food Weblog: The Food Pornographer Voting closes 31 January.
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This photo really doesn’t do the Billy Hard Cheese from Tasmania justice. In real life I couldn’t describe it. It’s somewhere between a artisan soap and fossilisedice hockey puck. It has a nutty flavour and a nice whiff of goat about it. This is a welcome change to the pristine cheeses made locally that only [...]
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Naked breasts on display Over in cleavage corner the posse have a problem. While I’m away peeing into a bowl (in the loo), a urinal of food arrives at the table. I have a problem that my tropical issue trousers have splash back. None of us are happy. And that’s just the start of it [...]
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Inevitiable any inside story on the restaurant business in new York will draw comparisons.Phoebe Damrosch doesn’t serve up the hard drugs and bad sex that Anthony Bourdain dragged us though. But the food is much, much better in Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter. It gives an insiders account of the opening of [...]
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Photography: Christina Simons p>Do I need say anymore about Bourdain’s blog apart from I found this via Slashfood? Perhaps I should also milk the archives: Part 1: A beer and a fag with Anthony Bourdain Part 2: On Ladro Part 3: Eating in Melbourne Part 4: No hippy shit Part 5: casual eating Part 6: [...]
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The Lakehouse in Daylesford is a big supporter of local produce and should be commended for the work its work in the region to develop them. It features them on its menu and many other restaurants could learn from the example. It will be showcasing local producers throughout the gardens, orchard and Terrace Room on Sunday 10 February.The [...]
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‘A’ list food blogger Clotilde Dusoulier and Herald Sun restaurant critic and Francophile (well his wife is French at least) Stephen Downes give an afternoon tour of Paris.Quite how they do that from Perth where this Writers’ Festival event is based I have no idea.More information here.
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Bugger! I won nothing.The full list of results is up at Chez Pim and the local prize results will no doubt be up soon at Grab your Fork. Thanks to all those to offered prizes and bid for them.This year $91,188 was raised. Here are my winners. Congratulations: AP15 Review with Stephen Downes, the Herald [...]
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Moderated by Joanna Savill this year the Melbourne Food Festival has invited four bloggers to take part in one of the panel discussions at the Out of the Frying Pan all day event. I’ll be there in addition to Stephanie, Jamie and Jackie. This all-day talkfest covers everything from future trends in food, restaurants and [...]
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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…
Consult a financial adviser before drinking from a Riedel.
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Decant heavier reds at least 8 hours before drinking.
If you want to drink…
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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