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  • Recipe The grass diet

    The grass diet
    When we moved recently to a townhouse with only a minute piece of land attached, our cat had to get used to being an indoor animal. While she has now grown accustomed to going out on the balconies and likes to have a roll on the paving and[...]
  • Recipe Lunch at Coda

    Lunch at Coda
    Fellow bloggers and tweeters have been enthusing about Coda of late so I was delighted when the family invited me there for lunch to celebrate my umpteenth birthday. Chef Adam D?Sylva, The Age Good Food Guide' s 2008 Young Chef of the Year, was[...]
  • Recipe Aladdin's cave

    Aladdin's cave
    Omar Sidaoui has been breathing in the heady aroma of spice for so long that when he goes to work he doesn't smell the wonderful fragrances that immediately hit first-time visitors to NSM Food Wholesalers. Cumin, coriander, paprika, turmeric[...]
  • Recipe Corny stuff

    Corny stuff
    The greatest drawback is the way in which it is necessary to eat it.....It looks awkward enough: but what is to be done? Surrendering such a vegetable from considerations of grace is not to be thought of. Harriet Martineau, an[...]
  • Recipe Tweet, tweet, tweetie pies

    Tweet, tweet, tweetie pies
    Neal Foley (@podchef) farms on an island in Washington state. I came across him about four years ago when The Spouse bought me an iPod and I started listening to podcasts when I couldn't sleep. Neal is squarely involved in the politics of what[...]
  • Recipe Learning to be a young lady

    Learning to be a young lady
    Many moons ago I went to boarding school. During a recent shift I unearthed the little diary I kept at the time. I used to keep it in my sponge bag, along with the occasional illicit bar of chocolate, because I figured if the nuns did a[...]
  • Recipe The Age Good Food Guide awards

    The Age Good Food Guide awards
    Melbourne?s chefs are a passionate bunch and last night was an emotional time for many of them at The Age Good Food Guide Restaurant Awards. Arnaldo Terzini, 77, who collected the Professional Excellence Award with his son Maurice, 45,[...]
  • Recipe A Taste of Melbourne

    A Taste of Melbourne
    Melbourne tastes great. It?s sweet, savoury, spicy, mellow. It can be sipped, slurped,  guzzled, gobbled, nibbled, gnawed, relished. Thousands tested that at the Taste Of Melbourne four-day event at the Royal Exhibition Building in[...]
  • Recipe No smears, no liquid nitrogen... no worries

    No smears, no liquid nitrogen... no worries
    While the sky darkened, the temperature dropped and Melburnians were warned to go home early to avoid the forthcoming storm, I was bracing myself last night to face the elements and head across town for dinner. What?s a bit of wind to a Wellington[...]
  • Recipe Boy, oh bouyiourdi

    Boy, oh bouyiourdi
    Bouyiourdi Take 1 Sometimes I come across a dish that definitely falls in the ?must try this at home? and that was certainly the case with the bouyiourdi I had among the meze at a local Greek restaurant recently. It?s a really simple dish[...]