Check out locally made craft brews at Federation Square. This is an opportunity to meet the brewers and discover the secrets of the state’ s great beers. Try not to get bladdered, please. Where: When: Time: Cost: The Atrium @ Fed Square 27th & 28th February 2008 4.30pm – 8.00pm Tasting tickets $25 (plus $2 deposit) -includes [...]
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Check out locally made craft brews at Federation Square. This is an opportunity to meet the brewers and discover the secrets of the state’s great beers. Try not to get bladdered, please. Where: When: Time: Cost: The Atrium @ Fed Square 27th & 28th February 2008 4.30pm – 8.00pm Tasting tickets $25 (plus $2 deposit) -includes 20 [...]
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What do I miss most about home? It has to be the dear old Currant Bun. Today’s headline: Phew what a scorcher! Although they could be holding the front page to the Aussie cricketers a good firm kick in the bollocks. The last time I was home in England, en route to Spain, it was [...]
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Jak still remembers Mrs Goldstein because she was frightening. Founded in 1944, Goldstein’s is a Gold Coast institution and now a chain.You won’t find some of the fancy breads we are used to in Melbourne but the shops sell a decent enough product, especially the pies and Jewish breads.I’d recommend that you eat the plain [...]
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There’s four different types of mangoes in Coles. Over a dozen types of quality processed meat, mostly, Spam. And more prawns than you can point a stick at. The strange thing about traveling is the differences of choices reflecting local produce and conditions. At Vintage Cellars the demand is for expensive champagne and heavy, [...]
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It’s a healthy breakfast that sees in the new year. Nearly tasteless $10 a punnet strawberries, diced melon and banana and passion fruit smothered with live yoghurt and topped with a lone home grown strawberry. Remarkably I am not hungover although I am pretty cranky. So what’s in store? – Jak is in [...]
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My usual cafe is closed so it’s to a new place around the corner on Carlisle St. It takes courage to try a new unknown cafe. It takes even more courage to walk out after asking to read the menu. I wish I had more courage. I could tell from the menu that it wasn’t [...]
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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.
Dishwasher tablets erode your glasses and crockery. Use liquid instead.
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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