Get to know your beer by attending beer school. Photo: Wayne Taylor. Good Beer Week is just around the corner (starting this Friday) so I thought I’d share this roundup of events I put together […]
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Category: Food
How good is Australian olive oil?
Sui Tham at her Olive oil grove, Cape Schanck Olive Estate which has won gold and best-in-class medals at this year’s New York International Olive Oil Competition. Photo: Joe Armao. By Peter Barrett When most people […]
Marco Pierre White – kitchen spy
UK restaurateur Marco Pierre White in the MasterChef kitchen at Melbourne Showgrounds. Photo: Pat Scala. I met legendary chef Marco Pierre White between shooting scenes for MasterChef Australia some weeks ago – here’s the kitchen spy that […]
On a mountain high with the king and I
A farmer harvesting choko sprouts in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Photo: Peter Barrett. Peter Barrett takes a culinary tour of northern Thailand. Thick, charcoal smoke is beginning to fill the small, wooden room. Tending an ancient-looking […]
Kitchen spy – Rohan Anderson
Author and real foods campaigner, Rohan Anderson, inside his Yandoit home kitchen. Photo: Simon O’Dwyer. “Over the past six or seven years I transitioned from being a pretty unhealthy, overweight person eating a lot of processed foods […]
Jancis Robinson’s 10 things you should know about wine
Wine guru Jancis Robinson. It’s fair to say British critic Jancis Robinson knows a thing or two about wine. As well writing a weekly wine column for The Financial Times she edits The Oxford Companion […]
Australian whisky strikes gold
Gold awards for Melbourne whisky label Starward are helping Australian whisky gain traction internationally. Photo: Shaiith. When it comes to making whisky, the airfields of Essendon are a long way from the misty Isles of Scotland, both […]
