The Daily Telegraph
CELEBRITY MasterChef judges have suggested Anna Bligh’s enthusiasm for showcasing her home state may have cost her a chance to win he hot TV series.
As Ms Bligh’s cooking prowess with Queensland produce fell short on the top-rating Channel 10 show, viewers were hit with Liberal National Party-funded commercials questioning the Premier’s honesty [...]

Stephanie Clifford-Smith October 13, 2009 – 4:49PM
In 1819, when Sir William Watkins Wynne first grew bananas in England, he sent samples to the Horticultural Society describing them as “agreeable, luscious and acid flavoured”. Nearly 100 years later, writer Octave Uzanne said their smell “evokes in our senses exotic countries, perfumed Arabia, distant islands and tropical [...]

October 14, 2009 – 11:57AM

After publishing a Tokyo dining guide, Michelin unveiled yesterday a book focusing on Japan’s western cities of Kyoto and Osaka, awarding stars to its entire selection of 150 restaurants.
The guide, due to hit Japanese bookstore shelves on Friday in both Japanese and English, lavished the ancient capital of Kyoto with six [...]

BRISBANE has become a city of culinary contrast. At Bar Barossa, Brisbane’s newest wine bar, keen drinkers with big wallets can buy a bottle of wine for $80,000, while across town, two pubs are fighting it out with $2 steaks.
The steak war was launched on the weekend, as John McInerney, owner of The Broadway Hotel, [...]