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Blumenthal’s sherry fondu

July 23, 2010

The wonderful Heston Blumenthal pairs sherry with fondu in this little video. Fondu might not be such a bad idea this weekend, apparently the weather will be miserable. But we won’t be with this recipe up our sleeves… ShareTweet

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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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Bompas & Parr

July 11, 2010

We know that food tastes better in a spectacular setting, where our surroundings are inspiring and complement the various elements of the food. There’s nothing like sharing a feast with friends under olive trees in Provence in summer, for example. It just tastes better than it would eaten under the bed, or in the laundry. [...]

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Bird Cow Fish at Eveleigh Markets

June 24, 2010

Alex Herbert, of Bird Cow Fish in Surry Hills fame, cooked me an omelette while I was standing right there in front of her. She used heirloom tomatoes tossed with the cherry variety, finely sliced Spanish onion and lots of parsley, all marinated in their own juices. And using three eggs she pulled together a [...]

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Pilu for lunch

June 17, 2010

Don’t you love it when you drop in to your parents’ house to say hello and Giovanni Pilu (the Italian head-chef of Pilu) is making lunch, just by the by? That is truly hand-on-heart what happened the other day, by some extraordinary coincidence the very day after I went to his incredible Freshwater restaurant Pilu [...]

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Adriano Zumbo: Let them eat cake

June 6, 2010

This is where cream and design meet. Adriano Zumbo is a cake institution in Balmain, where queues to get in lengthened dramatically when the man himself appeared on the last season of Masterchef. But it’s not for the television appearance that Zumbo is famous. His cakes have dramatically raised the bar of Sydney’s patisseries thanks [...]

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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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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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