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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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So there I was drawing an interview to a close with Atul Kochhar from the glitzy Indian restaurant Benares smack bang next to the Jack Barclay Bentley dealership on Berkeley Square.
A man wants to congratulate Atul on the best meal he’s ever eaten. And he’s from Melbourne. I overhear that his name is John.
Atul tells [...]
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Packed into the new recital centre in Melbourne were a star-studded audience to hear Neil Perry, Heston Blumenthal and Thomas Keller discuss “A new approach to cooking”. Sydney chef Tony Bilson was taking notes sitting next to the legendary Cheong Liew. I think I spotted Karen Martini and Martin Boetz. The audience was also packed [...]
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Remember the days when continually old media bagged food bloggers?
The same thing isn’t happening with Twitter, a cross between texting and direct messaging – in a way a microblog. Could it be – to the media at least – that Twitter is the acceptable face of social media? Or is it because Twitter is so [...]
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Did you hear the one about the Melbourne-based food reviewer with some 14 food allergies? Don’t laugh.The story has been doing the rounds for months now.
And further from my previous post check out the ones that crept out of the sick bucket after Michael Ruhlman’s provocatively titled post A Nation of Culinary Sissies.
We though we [...]
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I‘m in Dubai but not in your usual hotel. I’ve picked low rise a traditional building in one of heritage areas, near the textile souks. The thing you notice in Dubai is that you meet everybody but the local Arabs.
This is a city that has grown incredibly fast build on the blood and sweat on [...]
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Mark Bittman makes a lot of sense on the need not to give up meat but eat less. In the New York Times (via Lifehacker) he outlines a manifesto for eating less meat on which I’ve put my own spin below.
It’s also worth checking out Bittman on the excellent TED Talks.
Meanwhile, with Confessions of [...]
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