- 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.
- Pigs is pigs and jam is… ...a post box full of Beerenberg. Full of Beerenberg. Full of Beerenburg. Full of
- 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”.
- Christmas past – excerpt A full English-style Christmas feast on a broiling hot December day - excerpt from book Me and My Big Mouth
- Bah! Rum pa pum pum This song is now playing on rotation everywhere I shop, on rotation with Little Drummer Boy that is.
- How to make gravy Who's gonna make the gravy now? I bet it won't taste the same. Paul Kelly
- Have an Hallucinogenic Christmas There's suggestions that this mushroom's colours became associated with St. Nicholas, and then Santa.
- Bungendore Camp-oven Cook-off 2010 Bungendore in rural NSW, hosts a great Camp-oven Cook-off. Here's the 2010 event video.
- Camp-oven Cook-off Started by Vince Skeehan, the Annual Camp-oven Cookoff preserves campfire cooking traditions.
- Milk rappers This nicely made advert is going viral for Yeo Farms organic dairy in Somerset. Yeo!
- Egging on Proposal P301 "the use of cracked and dirty eggs and unpasteurised pulp and their role in causing foodborne illness, traceability, definitions, packaging and the labelling of eggs"
- The Age Good Food Guide 2011 The Vic and NSW guides are released a week apart, here's The Age Regional Restaurants list. With links.
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