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Chez Panisse – eat my shirts?

Levi’s are releasing a limited edition range of T-shirts to celebrate 40 years of Alice Water’s Chez Panisse and support the work of her Edible Schoolyard foundation.

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Authentic regional food?

How do you find authentic regional food while traveling? We offer one suggestion and Andrew Purvis has a great SMH article to help.

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Let ’em eat wedding cake!

I was turned off by Royal Wedding frenzy, but the cake? That’s different.

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Our ‘Teaser’ Gallery

We called the double page images that opened the editorial content of our print magazine, our ‘teaser pages’. Here they are in a fullscreen gallery.

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Olive oil joins Supermarket price war

Milk, eggs, now oil. This spells disaster for local growers. What chance Coles and Woolworths will answer these tough questions?

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Redefining our wine in North America

“It is both terrifying and galvanizing that a room full of serious tasters in New York can profess both delight and surprise at such relatively ‘mainstream’ propositions as (our) regional specialties” Paul Henry.

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Grand Dairy Awards 2011

The 2011 Grand Dairy Awards are the ‘Oscars’ of Australian Cheese making. Here’s the winners list with images and tasty descriptions.

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Reasons to be cheerful – and buy ALDI's olive oil

Great value, good flavour, responsible industry practice and committment to lowering the oil’s carbon footprint. All good reasons to buy it.

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Pigs is pigs and jam is…

…a post box full of Beerenberg. Full of Beerenberg. Full of Beerenburg. Full of

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Mrs Perry’s Jam

Picking one representative King Island jam maker proved to be a religious choice. But as I asked around the advice was repeated, “for traditional jam, you have to talk to Mrs Perry. That’s ‘old’ Mrs Perry who makes her jam for the Church of England stall”.

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Bah! Rum pa pum pum

This song is now playing on rotation everywhere I shop, on rotation with Little Drummer Boy that is.

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Classic Strawberry Pavlova

My aunt Elsie was always the ‘gold standard’ for pavlovas at our family get-togethers, crisp outside and soft, fluffy and just chewy centres. I’ve never replicated them.

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