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Out goes the frying pan

October 15, 2011

I am suffering from heavy metal fatigue. I guess it’s one of those things you have to tolerate as you put another birthday behind you. I am not as strong as I once was. Back in the days when my eldest was in his early teens, we’d engage in a bit of wrist wrestling. He [...]

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Break bread for Africa

September 3, 2011

More than two million children are affected by the food crisis in East Africa and a child is dying there every six minutes. So what are we going to do about it? Most of us here don’t have the worry of wondering where our next meal is coming from – or if indeed there will [...]

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Constant dripping

August 9, 2011

Low glycemic index, glycemic load, trans fats, saturated fats, LDL cholesterol – the good, the bad and the ugly of 21st century diets. Michael Pollan once advised, “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognise as food.” My English, Irish and Scottish great-grannies probably wouldn’t recognise some of the items that come home from the market [...]

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Beautiful boeuf

August 2, 2011

I often cheat in the kitchen. Life is, after all, supposedly too short to stuff a mushroom. I’ve survived long enough to stuff my share of mushrooms and sometimes it’s good not to be too impatient to get a meal on the table. While I have a cheat’s version of Boeuf Bourguignon which involves a [...]

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Eating South Melbourne

June 25, 2011

Cecil Street in South Melbourne was a-buzz last Thursday night as food bloggers, media and diners descended on South Melbourne Market to cruise the recently opened restaurant strip. With the latest addition due to officially open in days, the precinct now offers diners a choice of Chinese, Spanish, Turkish and Italian cuisines, seafood and street [...]