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The spanking clean new urinals at The Melbourne Wine Room.
It’s taken a long time and it is only now that I can account or my fascination for lavatories, WCs or bogs – anything but toilets. It goes back to junior school where the teacher punished me for using the word lavatory. Back home I was [...]
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Ferran Adria arrives in Australia on Thursday next week for his sold-out audience on the 19th at Hamer Hall (put on by the good folk at Melbourne Food and Wine). He’s here with his translator to spruik his book “A day at El Bulli” and I’m lucky enough to have 30 minutes with him on [...]
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inally we have a winner for the food blog survey sponsored by Kitchenware Direct, picked from the 165 entries. In social media tradition I asked on twitter for a random number. I got three, added them up and divided coming up with Andrew Dean from Windsor who was chuffed to have won the Shun knife [...]
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First off I was late, dawdling this rainy morning. I missed the briefing and my lab coat was too small even for a ten year old child. On a bright note though, the hairnet was just perfect and I was wearing the correct all-terrain underwear and cashmere socks. I’m at the 2008 judging for the [...]
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Where is he? The Gobbler and his previous blog The Garrulous Gourmet have been taken down. All that content gone. It’s funny how bloggers come and go. Some people fade away and The Gobbler has gone out with a bang simply because he has other priorities in life. It’s a brave thing to give up [...]
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This really beats the Teasmade. The Wake n’ Bacon alarm clock. Via Wired. Actually I think I want both.
A mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes from The Independent:
“Pascal Henry, 46, a Swiss motorbike courier, set out in May to eat in every Michelin three-starred restaurant in the world – 68 restaurants in nine countries in 68 [...]
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Four years ago when I launched my doomed anti-F–die mag Tomato elbowed my way in to interview Melbourne chef Karen Martini at the time she was launching Mr Wolf. The thing that stuck with me is that she liked calm in her kitchen rather than the pot-throwing and stomping of a certain top local chef [...]
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Sorry to repeat myself, but a few Age readers come to this blog and it is a big story that Ferran Adria is coming to Melbourne in October courtesy of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival and his publisher Phaidon. He is here as part of his world tour, which includes Sydney, to promote his [...]
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Spice finds a giant Perigord truffle.
The whole of Australia is Perigord truffle crazy right now. In the past few weeks alone I’ve eaten some of the best and most aromatic truffle dishes that I have ever come across. Chefs report they have never seen so many from Australia and summer ones imported from France.
Today, one [...]
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Officially it’s this blog’s third birthday on Friday 11th, the start of a week of celebrations with a top prize for readers.
I’m going to map the current food and drink blogscape and conduct and Aussie version of Leena’s survey of blog readers.
Tonight to celebrate I eat and drink at the Royal Mail Hotel in Dunkeld [...]
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This is, as Joe Strummer said, a public service announcement and it may “Rock the Casbah” a bit.
The idea of Very Cheap Eats (Email me as gastrotomATgmailDOTcom if you’d like to become a reviewer) is to provide a guide to the best cheap food in Australian in the sort of places you’d actually choose to [...]
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Smile, you’re on bloggers’ camera: (l to r) Purple Goddess, Vida and Stickyfingers.
What is the Bloggers’ Banquet?
Just an opportunity to meet up, eat and chat. That’s not to forget take photos, blog, post to flickr and all that other social stuff. Nothing hard. V1.0 was back in November. V2.0 will be held Saturday 5 April [...]
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