Used to love a nice bit of Tasmanian salmon. There was a time when it seemed a pretty solid, and sustainable choice. I also knew how to cook it, and it was bloody delicious. And then, the problems started to surface. Pollutants in Macquarie Harbour, reports of fish in poor condition, question marks over the …
Category Archives: food
this weekend we ate!
Every weekend it seems we end up eating… rather a lot. This weekend was longer than usual and so we’ve eaten rather more than usual! Here’s a few highlights. Sunday breakfast: superb batch of blueberry muffins – buttermilk makes them so moist and soft! Sunday evening: Moussaka – haven’t made it for years, but it …
a meal to remember
It’s evening now, but I’m still slightly stunned by the lunch I ate today. We received an impromptu invitation to a first brithday ‘celebration’ lunch for Shanghai Ling’s new premises – it was a set menu, but we were told not to expect anything we’d seen on the menu before. Sure enough, there was a …
Manly vs. Melbourne
I was in Sydney last week for the excellent WDS08, but it was some other aspects of Sydney that I want to write about this time. 1. Soul Sydney doesn’t seem to have one. I find it an intensely sad city – I’m sure there are exceptions, but Sydney is beautiful in spite of what …
Ballina’s last resort
Well here I am at Ballina Beach Resort, the venue for Ausweb08 – one of the world’s oldest internet based conferences. It doesn’t have the cachet of the newcomers like Web Directions, but it still attracts some good thinkers and some interesting topics. One of the features of this conference, however, is that it is …
Chokolait – delicious!
How spoiled are chocolate lovers in Melbourne? There’s plenty of good retail chocolate – my favourite, the South Australian import, Haighs. But more and more, chocolate shops are about the experience of sitting down, drinking and eating in cosy surroundings – the whole indulgence thing wrapped up. Until now, Koko Black had this wrapped up …
wipe off that drool!…
As of last Tuesday’s Epicure liftout in The Age, everyone is discovering food blogs. I’m a food lover – a bit of a cook – mostly an eater, who has long enjoyed the vicarious pleasure of food blogs. The epicure article was pretty good, highlighting a bunch of great blogs – some I’ve already seen, …
very old noodles
Being a big fan of Chinese Food (inserts plug for our favourite local restaurant), and living in a very ‘Italian’ area of Melbourne, I have followed with some interest the debate about who invented the noodle. The Italians insist that Marco Polo introduced it to China, the Chinese argue the reverse. Even the Arab countries …