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Yu Bo’s Sichuan banquet at Sydney International food festival

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Finger-licking good: My short history of sex in cooking television shows

Only the other night gazing out at the opera house from Quay restaurant in Sydney I had the good fortune to sit at dinner with the new improved much, much larger than life Matt Preston. Not only was I subject to his advice on all things Myf Warhurst, his pony skin R.M. Williams boots and [...]

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My Sydney wine fix

Fix St James: Funnily enough very close to St James station, 111 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000 +61 2 9232 2767

There must be something about Fix St James to make me return. During the last two of my trips to Sydney I have visited, three times – twice in the past week. And it is [...]

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I’ve seen the future of food and it’s in Collingwood (and beyond)

Reflections on Cutler & Co

Arguably the Collingwood Fitzroy borders have everything. Almost every cuisine is represented and there are plenty of places for a friendly glass of wine, an outsized Hefeweizen or even a friendly neighbourhood Fog Cutter. Let’s not forget if you want to score drugs either.
But what Collingwood also offers an insight to [...]

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Win tickets to Julie & Julia movie

TTo celebrate the launch of Julie and Julia I’m giving away ten double passes for the film – 5 double passes for the sneak preview weekend coming up this 3 to 4 October. And 5 double passes for the theatrical season which starts on October 8.
The story is compelling, adapted from the book Julie [...]

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My wonky hot chocolate

180g cylinders of 100% pure cacao

I‘m obsessed by good chocolate. This time last year flying on the excellent Emirates I was entranced by the story of Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory, a TV documentary aired on Channel 4 in the UK. (Check him out on Youtube)
The storycentres on the trials of Willie Harcourt-Cooze who sold everything [...]

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I’m only eating this burger so you don’t have to

I get a lot of stick on this blog every time I eat Maccas. Usually, I serve the chips with a home made steak tartare. Living a one minute walk away from the Acland St Maccas, it is far easier to walk there are back rather than deal with hot fat or oil (I refuse [...]

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Drama at Der Raum

It’s about theatre. And Der Raum does it well. Gin – there’s a selection of all the good stuff – is chilled with liquid nitrogen. It boils in a glass jug with clouds spilling down its sides and along the bar counter.
When the ice clears from the surface, it is safe to sip. [...]

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Huge shake-up to Victoria in Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Awards

I believe we all have our favorites – I know I do – and this shows in the list of the top restaurants in Victoria from Gourmet Traveller. You can check out the full list here
A big congratulations to Dan Hunter and team at The Royal Mail Hotel who were awarded best regional restaurant.
Otherwise there [...]

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Alpine green tea helps the existential crisis

Green tea packed in anti-somethings from Alpine Tea Co, 33 Kiewa Valley Highway, Tawonga, Vic 3997
I didn’t know that tea was cultivated in Victoria, let alone the alpine valleys. I should’ve guessed it having iced my nuts at a hill station in India in January. But I didn’t as I was spending too much [...]

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Sod local food, it’s mango season

Fresh peppercorns
Two things drag me out of the local groove; mangoes and mud crab. We did the mud crab on full moon. Now it’s the turn of mango. And the fresh green pepper corns discovered at Damian Pike’s stall on the recent bloggers’ tour of Prahran market.
Fresh peppercorns are a real treat. In Cambodia and [...]

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101 – sorry 127 – things not to eat and drink before you die

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 [...]

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I forgot I was meant to die. But at least I unwittingly ate my last meal at The Grand Hotel

Vincisgrassi makes every other lasagne seems brutal. The Grand Hotel, 333 Burnley Street, Richmond +61 3 9429 2530
Hopeless. There I was talking about how this Vincisgrassi could be my last meal in September but I got the date wrong. I should have died at the same age as my father on the 5th August 2009, [...]

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The great egg swap

Flat leaf parsley is rampant right now. And our neighbour’s chickens are productive laying about five eggs a day.
It’s a swap. Herbs for fresh eggs, small eggs. Some are blue and others covered in crap. Personally, I see no problem in this. I crack the fresh eggs, dirty and clean, into a pan.
But this is [...]

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Should I bother with Taste of Melbourne?

Q: I was thinking of coming down from Sydney to Melbourne for a mega eating weekend. Should I come down for Taste of Melbourne (27-30 August) or should just visit the restaurants?
IWS, Balmain
A: I’ve never been a one or these big food events, elbowing my way into food and wine and avoiding stalls who pay [...]

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