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Fridge tricks

August 3, 2010

The contents and layout of your fridge can affect how you eat, how you feel about eating, and obviously how much waste there is. After writing The Thrifty Kitchen, and researching how the way the coolest part of the house is laid out impacts what we eat, I put together this shortlist of tricks. Furry [...]

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Trickle-down effect

July 20, 2010

A couple of articles published in The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Living today for its special coffee issue. Here is one! Trickle-down effect: Entrepreneurs are taking advantage of our coffee mania, writes Kate Gibbs. “A coffee-flavoured condom was released in Ethiopia aimed at encouraging safer sex – a move considered to be a resounding success [...]

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Masterchefs were here

July 18, 2010

This was the BBC Australian Good Food magazine’s stall at the Good Food and Wine Festival in Sydney this weekend. Got backstage and had the incredible privilege of chatting to Kylie Kwong about her new sustainable cookbook, and Masterchef’s Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris, all of whom contribute to the magazine as well. But it [...]

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Tragedy to triumph: Good Living

July 6, 2010

In the right hands, a culinary accident can become the next big dish or technique, writes Kate Gibbs. Frank Epperson sat on his back porch mixing powdered soda and water with a stick. Aged 11, he was experimenting, as children do, in a bid to make a soft drink. Distracted, he wandered off, leaving the [...]

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It takes allsorts

June 22, 2010

Article published in The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Living today… It takes allsorts It’s been giving children purple tongues for years but now liquorice is the new black, writes Kate Gibbs. ShareTweet

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Lost art of cooking?

May 26, 2010

From frozen pastry to Gravox and ready-to-go pouring custard, the modern Aussie woman may have returned to the kitchen, but is certainly not cooking like mum used to. Cooking like mum is lost art: Article featured in the Sunday Telegraph. Me and the wonderful MF, cooking up some things in her kitchen. ShareTweet

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Collected: the launch

May 19, 2010

My gorgeous friend Kristin’s book launch the other night. Including a brilliant speech from her beau Arnie. Get the book here. Music in video by Santigold and clip by Kim Pedersen. ShareTweet

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A Creole food story

May 17, 2010

This story appears in the NY Times. Amazing and personal tale about food developments in New Orleans, post Katrina. EVERY morning Leah Chase hobbles out of her FEMA trailer and crosses the street to check on the tortuous effort to rebuild her historic restaurant, Dooky Chase. Mrs. Chase, 83, is the nation’s most revered Creole [...]

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Spoon Fed

May 16, 2010

With “real, wit and truth” in her bag, as Mario Batali described her, the New York Times journalist Kim Severson has released a new book on how eight cooks saved her life. A former alcoholic, Severson has written Spoon Fed (which I’ve just ordered from the Book Depository) as a sort of run-down on her [...]

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Crumbobblious cutlets

May 13, 2010

Yesterday in 1812 was the birthday of the English writer famous for his nonsense verse, especially The Owl and the Pussycat, Edward Lear. Lear contributed several recipes to the Nonsense Gazette, and today I bring you,  in honour of his birthday, his recipe for cutlets. To Make Crumbobblious Cutlets Procure some strips of beef, and having [...]

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Essex Street Market bakery

April 13, 2010

Dean & Deluca, Momofuku Bar, and the Mandarin Oriental have been serving up Pain d’Avignon loaves for years, but now New Yorkers can go right to the source. The bakery now has a shop front doling out cranberry and pecan loaves, ficelle, baguettes and brioche on the lower east side, and more than 50 types [...]

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Fishy heaven

April 12, 2010

Want to know where Sydney’s top restaurants buy their fish? Well like some sort of food sleuth, I stumbled upon these boxes, each heading to Sydney’s Pier, Claude’s, Bathers at Balmoral, and Lotus, to name a few. Martins Seafood, in Balmain, is providing daily fresh fish to these restaurants, and now to me. On the [...]

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The Delia effect

April 11, 2010

Delia Smith, the venerable British cooking queen bee, has caused a stir by making the country run out of rhubarb. In a newly released advert, Delia recommends people make her rhubarb and ginger brulee. Apparently what Delia says, Britain does, and the supermarkets are now out of stock. Waitrose has come under fire from rhubarb [...]

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Universal and The Thrifty Kitchen

March 24, 2010

Christine Manfield of Universal fame last night created an incredible menu in her restaurant pulled from and inspired by my book The Thrifty Kitchen. Meatloaf at Universal? Yes! Check out the menu below.. Thank you Chris, what an incredible evening. Absolutely humbling. The meatloaf with green beans was nothing like they dreamed up in the [...]

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