JANE WILLSON AND SARINA LEWIS
Over the decades, influential Melbourne chefs have shaped a city-wide appreciation of the vibrant flavours of the Middle East. Jane Willson and Sarina Lewis have asked them to share their secrets, culinary cornerstones, their inspiration and all-important shopping tips.
GREG MALOUF
Malouf was born in Australia of Lebanese parents. He worked with various [...]
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Feast meets west
Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2010
Posted in Culinary Australia 
Tags: Canvas, Eminem, Gigibaba, Longrain, Maha, Marchetti's, MoMo, O'Connell's, The Regent 
No Comments »Is pasta a recipe for weight gain?
Posted by admin on May 20th, 2010
Pasta is the type of food that some experts say we should be staying away from. The logic is that because it’s a carbohydrate it’s going to make us instantly fat. But is that really true? Should we be overlooking the carbs in favour of protein? Or have carbs just been misunderstood?
For the D’Angelo family [...]
Sydney restaurant soars up world’s best list
Posted by admin on April 28th, 2010
Peter Gilmore of Quay, Sydney – Sydney’s Quay restaurant is the 27th best restaurant in the world and Australasia’s finest.
The restaurant, which debuted at No.46 last year, leaped 19 places to its new ranking on the S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, announced in London overnight.
Tetsuya’s was the only other Australian restaurant to make the [...]
Posted in Culinary Australia Tags: Attica, Daniel, elBulli, Ferran Adria, Les Creations de Narisawa, Marque, Noma, Pier, Quay, Tetsuya’s, The Fat Duck, The French Laundry No Comments »Bring back compulsory cooking classes at school
Posted by admin on April 13th, 2010
All those arguing over which version of history should be contained in the national curriculum might want to think about a subject that could mean our current generation lives long enough to achieve some level of appreciation of that history.
Food is on our minds this week, with the return of MasterChef, which last year many [...]
Why is it tough to go cold turkey on junk food?
Posted by admin on April 2nd, 2010
BURGERS and pizza are as addictive as heroin and cigarettes, scientists warned this week.A study showed bingeing on junk food triggers addiction centres in the brain, making us crave more and more high calorie foods.
Dr David Kessler, former commissioner of the US Food and Drink Administration, agrees with the study – and believes we’re eating [...]
Midweek menu: try a St Patrick’s Day feast
Posted by admin on March 17th, 2010
St Patrick’s Day feast! – By Rebecca Davies
It’s Ireland’s most important day of the year on Wednesday, March 17, so why not celebrate with Recipe Finder’s top 20 Irish dishes.
20. Champ
This budget grub is made from mashed potatoes, chopped spring onions (which they call “scallions”), butter and milk. The Irish sometimes describe less intelligent people [...]
Sydney restaurateur hit by second major blaze
Posted by admin on January 22nd, 2010
GEORGINA ROBINSON – Totally destroyed … Cafe Otto. Photo: Nick Moir
A Sydney restaurateur says he is devastated by the second major fire in just over a year to tear through one of his businesses.
Neil Mirani’s Glebe restaurant, Cafe Otto, was completely gutted yesterday, just 13 months after a kitchen fire at his Paddington cafe caused [...]
A lesson in popsicology
Posted by admin on December 29th, 2009
It has taken generations of great chefs and rich patrons to perfect the frozen treats we now take for granted, explains Matt Preston of MasterChef.
George Washington went into debt over it, Nero sent slaves across his empire because of it and the success of the cafe owes a huge debt to it. Not sex but [...]
The way to a man’s heart
Posted by admin on December 1st, 2009
If you love him, feed him. That’s the opinion of the author of this light-hearted recipe book, writes John Bastick.
Lana Vidler is a 28-year-old who has self-published the book Meals Men Love – How to Catch a Man in 3 Courses. She has concocted recipes that are “simple, wholesome home-cooked food, nothing frilly or fancy”, [...]
Celebrity MasterChef winner swimmer Eamon Sullivan wants TV career
Posted by admin on November 25th, 2009
Erin McWhirter, TV Editor -Â The Daily Telegraph
SWIM star Eamon Sullivan hopes his next major TV turn after winning Celebrity MasterChef will be on a lifestyle or travel program.
The Olympic silver medallist won Australia’s first Celebrity MasterChef series after cooking off against Miss Universe Australia Rachael Finch and INXS guitarist Kirk Pengilly last night.
The Perth-raised 24-year-old, [...]
