If, like me, you marvelled while your school bus rolled the wrong way up a hill and you then spent the day exploring the spooky, 6.25-million-year-old lava terrain of Hanging Rock in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges, […]
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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 […]
Anzac Day behind the lines
Curator Jenny Long at the “Somewhere In France” exhibition with a Moët & Chandon champagne cork from 1918, collected by Signaller Ray Jones. Photo: Jason South. The Champagne cork is weathered. Rust has found a foothold […]
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 […]
The Catman of Kangaroo Island
Barry Green at the entrance to his aptly named home on Kangaroo Island. Photo: Emma Byrnes. A family holiday in January took us to South Australia’s Kangaroo Island, where we tracked down a local with an interesting […]
Vietnamese dining scene moves into a new age
Thi Le, female chef and co-owner of Anchovy restaurant, is educating herself and patrons about real Vietnamese food. Photo: Simon Schluter. The Age, 23 January, 2015 By Peter Barrett Born in a Malaysian refugee camp to […]
