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 […]
Category: Food
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 […]
Kitchen spy with champion barista Hugh Kelly
The home kitchen of award-winning barista, Hugh Kelly, who works for ONA Coffee in Canberra and lives in the suburb of O’Connor. Photo: Graham Tidy. Having just won the 2016 Australian Barista Championships in Melbourne, Hugh Kelly, 25, […]
Mel Buttle – kitchen spy
Comedian Mel Buttle in her kitchen. Photo: Glenn Hunt. Peter Barrett Brisbane comedian Mel Buttle is a co-host on Lifestyle Food Channel’s The Great Australian Bake Off but at home, which she shares with partner Sophie and their […]
Craft beer boom means heady days for hops growers
Allan Monshing, farm manager of Rostrevor Hop Gardens in Eurobin, is a third-generation hops farmer. Photo: Peter Merk. Somewhere in America, probably on the west coast, the epicentre of the global craft beer movement, a beer […]
Best places to eat and drink in the Adelaide Hills
Wheel estate: Bridgewater Mill Restaurant offers “posh platters”. Photo: Supplied. Peter Barrett Few visitors leave this rolling, bucolic, wine-soaked landscape without having at least one Hans Heysen moment. The great German-born Australian watercolourist’s spirit is everywhere, written […]
Gaggan best again at Asia’s Top 50 Restaurants
Australian chef Dave Pynt’s Singapore restaurant Burnt Ends rocketed up Asia’s Top 50 list. Photo: Supplied. Bangkok restaurant Gaggan took top spot overnight in the 2016 list of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants, sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna. […]
