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Category Archive: Lifestyle

Buyers have a taste for an epicurean escape on the Mornington Peninsula

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By Peter Barrett When the traffic jams and pressures of city living finally became enough for Kew-based art […]

January 30, 2017 Business, Lifestyle, News

Wining and dining on the Mornington Peninsula

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My eagle-eyed photographer wife Emma Byrnes and I travelled around the Mornington Peninsula recently, putting together this summer […]

January 11, 2017 Food, Lifestyle, Travel writing

Putt it there: golfing greens the latest landscape fad

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Calan doesn’t think his golf has necessarily improved as a result of his green. Photo: Eddie Jim. By Peter […]

December 18, 2016 Lifestyle, News, People

The six most common share house dwellers and how to handle them

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Author Judith Rossell‘s intricate, self-made and realistic miniature share house comes complete with tiny rubbish and RRR sticker […]

November 22, 2016 Lifestyle, Uncategorized

Joan Roca – Kitchen Spy

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Joan Roca (left) in his home kitchen with daughter and mother. Photo: Joan Pujol-Creus. Well folks, this wraps it […]

November 1, 2016 Food, Lifestyle, People

Kitchen Spy: inside the home of Heston’s right-hand man, Ashley Palmer-Watts

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Ashley Palmer-Watts, executive chef at Dinner By Heston Blumenthal, shares his kitchen must-haves.  Photo: Pat Scala. He was […]

August 23, 2016 Food, Lifestyle, People

Lifestyle Traveller: escape to mai chau

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Our overseas adventure continues. This week we bring you a letter from Mai Chau, in north-west Vietnam, where […]

July 29, 2016 Lifestyle, People, Travel writing

David Thompson’s top-five Bangkok street foods

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A glimpse of Thai street food from David Thompson’s TV show for SBS. Photo: SBS. 5 July, 2016 By […]

July 5, 2016 Food, Lifestyle, People, Travel writing

We’re having (another) baby!

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My assistant, Alby Barrett, and me, surveying our new office in Vietnam. Photo: Emma Byrnes. Well, sort of. I’m […]

June 28, 2016 Business, Lifestyle, News, People, Travel writing

Miro Bellini – kitchen spy

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Miro Bellini, co-founder of Good Beer Week, in his kitchen with his favourite things. Photo: Penny Stephens There are […]

May 31, 2016 Food, Lifestyle, People

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