Restaurant review: Manly Pavilion

October 6, 2011

Review of Manly Pavilion, published in February 2011 in Sunday Life magazine. ShareTweet

Read the full article →

Copenhagen cool

October 4, 2011

Just love the light, airy, nordic style of photographer Ditte Isager, who hails from Copenhagen, Denmark. Inspiration comes from the Dutch Masters, storytelling, and the effects from motion pictures. The photographer shows that overhead food photography can be completely wonderful, and the use of soft linens and minimalist style is rich with texture. I found [...]

Read the full article →

Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg make brownies

September 28, 2011

An old recording of when Snoop Dog visited the Martha Stewart show, and they both made brownies. In an amusing turn, Snoop does a rap about making brownies, while Martha, hip hop as she is, joins in to the awkward rap. Snoop: “Trying to make some brownies, but we’re missing the most important part of [...]

Read the full article →

Longman & Eagle

August 22, 2011

Fresh off a one-star Michelin nod in 2010, Longman & Eagle, a restaurant that does snout-to-tail pork and all meaty good things in Chicago, decided to start its own hotel as well – as a place to sleep off food comas perhaps. Jared Wentworth is the chef here, and he offers a regularly changing menu that [...]

Read the full article →

Barbican food hall

June 24, 2011

The Barbican in London has recently launched the Food Hall and Book Bank. Market stalls, a deli and sweet counter contained in this extensive arts centre, which has more than 18 different stores and nooks. There’s also a Book Bank – a bring-and-take-away bookstall stocked by Pan Macmillan. The formal restaurant upstairs boasts a macaroon [...]

Read the full article →

Sweetest sweet potato

June 22, 2011

A sweet little sweet potato experiment done by a young girl obviously into the idea of organics. Informative and gorgeous. Great to see kids asking questions about the food we eat, and taking it into their own hands. ShareTweet

Read the full article →

Rue

June 17, 2011

Sweet little kicky retro Friday video reminding us that summer will return. And then we can all just jump about on lawns with pastel coloured trinkets, macarons and best friends. ShareTweet

Read the full article →

Hide & Seek

June 8, 2011

Words by Kate Gibbs and pictures by Kristin Hove. ShareTweet

Read the full article →

Anthony Bourdain

May 19, 2011

Anthony Bourdain, who I met last night for dinner (thank goodness for this incredible job of mine), chats about food writers and food critics. Insights into food reviewing, the current cooking and celebrity chef craze, his views on AA Gill, and the Sydney Writers Festival. ShareTweet

Read the full article →

Wonder years

May 10, 2011

Loved interviewing six women – Yumi Stynes, Sandra Sully, Margaret Pomeranz, Fleur Wood, Margaret Fulton and Nicole Trunfio – for the Sunday Life cover story on the weekend. Having fun in your 20s, rearing a family in your 30s or getting wise in your 60s – at what age do women feel most fulfilled? Kate [...]

Read the full article →

Hungry

May 10, 2011

A controversial and swear-ridden viral video featuring Aria chef Matt Moran has been making the rounds. In the iPhone video, on the set of an advertisement, Moran yells at a crew member who throws out some food Moran has plated up. Here it is. It has been revealed though, that the video was in fact a [...]

Read the full article →

Boy crush

April 12, 2011

Bit of a professional crush on Brendan Maclean, who can sing and is funny. What’s not to like. He wrote on Twitter recently.. “@macleanbrendan If you watch 127 Hours backwards it’s an uplifting story about a disabled man finding an arm in the desert #moviesbackwards” ShareTweet

Read the full article →

Illustrations & walls

April 8, 2011

Beautiful things by Arian Behzadi. Trying to figure out where I can buy these images to hang on bare walls. Love the newspaper clippy montage thing he has going on. ShareTweet

Read the full article →

The Makers

March 23, 2011

Just love this photo documentary by Jennifer Causey, who’s The Makers project involves photographing people who make things. She says of her undertaking “I soon realised I was also photographing people who make things happen”. As the project evolves, so does the adventure and pleasure of documenting the people behind the products, she says: to learn [...]

Read the full article →