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 meal is a wasted eating opportunity. Here, with a little help from my blogging and Twitter friends, are some tips on the food and drink best avoided. I’ll be updating as more come in. And please add to the list in comments. Or, why not publish your own list and […]
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Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations visit to Melbourne
You don’t have to know much about Anthony Bourdain to know he loves Melbourne. He was back earlier this year guided around town – and down to the Royal Mail Hotel – by Matt Preston, Tony Tan and Paul Wilson. Here are the Youtube clips from what was show recently in the US. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa6gTkgIbgc] Part one: Paul Wilson while he was at the Half Moon in Brighton. [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo6ic9iIUzE] Part two: Playing Trugo with Matt Preston and kebabs on Sydney Rd […]
40 exclusive minutes with Heston Blumenthal
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 and his mentor the brilliant Phil Howard from Two Michelin star The Square in London as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. I can’t get a taxi to take me to The Langham where I’m interviewing possibly the most important chef in the world Heston Blumenthal who […]
Culinary Car Crash
SBS Food caught up with the man who invented bacon and egg ice-cream when he was in town recently for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival and asked: is he having a laugh? Heston Blumenthal says he is the kind of bloke whose happy to eat prawn cocktail, a cheap one bought from a supermarket straight from the plastic tub. He’s also happy at home eating a doner kebab with his son. But on screen he’s the very serious, clean, […]
Indian wine whine
Wine with Indian food? Even seasoned food writers seem to think you can’t eat anything spicy – let’s call it curry – without an ice cold glass of lager. Certainly normal punters think it’s laughable. Last year in my mum’s Indian local, out of 150 curry munchers only myself and a blond hairdresser were spotted with a glass of wine, white dare I say. The problem in India is that wine is expensive. Actually that’s not the only problem – […]
Anada tapas restaurant on Gertrude St
I want crispy rabbit with alioli The English want to watch football. The Spanish bullfighting. They scream and shout at each other. Hair is pulled. Somebody spits in another’s face. The police arrive wearing their funny hats and, worrringly, with machine guns. Such are the memories of some pretty dreadful tapas and raciones in Spain, Benidorm to be precise. Much of the same rubbish has now come to Australia, although thankfully we don’t have to sit through the “Full English […]
Arabic bazaar
From The Australian. Indulgence: Brunswick, Melbourne: Most visitors to this neighbourhood venture no further up Sydney Road than the Brunswick institution Mediterranean Wholesalers, which stocks more types of anchovy, tuna, cheeses, cured meats and olives than you could poke a salami at. But it is worth pressing on. Sydney Road may look downtrodden and the Lebanese influence may have been diluted but there are still old-school butchers and bakeries to be found among the newcomers. Signs in Arabic script read […]
15 14 things to do with rosemary this weekend
I’d prefer it if my front garden was a herb garden. Instead it is a stupid pattern of topiary, hard to maintain and even worse to eat. My neighbour has a rosemary hedge which I’ll sometimes “harvest” just because I can (when they’re not looking). If like me you have a plentiful supply, here are 14 things to do with rosemary for Weekend Herb Blogging #39 back over with Kalyn’s Kitchen this week. 1. Par-cooked new potatoes roasted in the […]
Hop on the Krispy Kreme media bandwagon
Picture pinched from Il Fornaio. Yuk! Over at Espresso in The Age the editors are already licking their lips at the prospect of a drive through Krispy Kreme doughnut outlet in Melbourne. I’ve had the misfortune to eat these dubious sugar coated bits of dough. Double yuk! At first bite they have a pleasant crispy sugar coating but underneath is dough that does a disservice to the worst kind of white bread you can buy. Triple yuk! Soon we can […]