I’ve been going all over the place for work. Noosa, Surfers Paradise, Townsville (okay, not all over the place – just regional Queensland). I love that aspect of my job – previously I had never been north of Brisbane, and within the last few months I’ve had the opportunity to sunburn my pale Melbournian skin … Continue reading
About a month ago, I saw a bunch of blog entries about the new exhibition Sweets: tastes and traditions from many cultures at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne. I entered a competition to win tickets to attend the Sweets Festival (part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival) with no hope of actually winning anything. … Continue reading
I’m in Vietnam and waiting for my photos to upload to Facey (which the Vietnamese government tries to block and every good guesthouse has a proxy workaround, hah!) so just thought I’d point you to this great post about George Calombaris’s comments regarding it being uneconomical for him to open his restaurants on Sundays here. … Continue reading
What do you do to ensure a city doesn’t run out of food? I threatened to post from time to time on vaguely food related urban planning and policy, and here is one such example: the just-released City of Melbourne food policy discussion paper. The time for submissions is past, but I find it interesting … Continue reading
This is a post with two aims: one, to test out what this ‘aside’ business will look like when I put it on my blog, and two, to tell you guys that I’m late to the party but thoroughly enjoyed this essay by Michael Pollan on the food industry (US-centric, but Australians can definitely take … Continue reading
Fresh Bread 