Duck Breast with Spiced Kanzi Apples & Red Cabbage 
Nasi goreng hijau (Green Fried Rice) 
Seville Orange Marmalade 
Hayden Quinn’s Falafel Pockets 
Poached Peaches in their own Pink Syrup 
Savoury Baked Ricotta 
Sea urchin in a lobster jell-o with cauliflower, caviar & crispy ‘seaweed’ waffle 
Mini Chef Edible Farm Flower Salad 
Stir-fry Beef with Vegetables 
Eggplant and Buffalo Mozzarella Rolls 
Layered Quinoa Trifle 
Genovese Pizza 
Buhara Pilavi (Pilaf with lamb, quince & nuts) 
Skye Gyngell’s Summer Pudding 
Burrato Bruschetta with Roasted Tomatoes 
Everything Old is New Again…
Giulio Nettuno was waiting for us at the front door of his Colatura Di Alici shop in the tiny fishing village of Cetara, south of Napoli, as we walked up the hill in the early morning sun. “So who can’t stand the smell?” he asked, eyeing us with a cheeky grin, as we entered the … Continue reading
I Left My Heart In…
How well I remember the first time I travelled along the Amalfi Coast. I was in my late teens and could barely bring myself to look out the window of the car, not just because of the vertiginous hairpin bends and risk-taking cars and buses, but also because the sheer, limestone cliffs all the way … Continue reading
The Pioneering Organic Farmer of Fossano
Meet Andrea Giaccardi of l’ Orto del Pian Bosco, a 40-something organic farmer in Fossano (CN) in the northern Italian region of Piedmont. Andrea is a pioneer in these parts. Not just because the median age of farmers in Italy is 66, but also because organic farming in this region of Italy is treated with … Continue reading
The Madcap Cheese Man of Bra
When Fiorenzo Giolito’s grandmother, Mariet Almonte, first started selling local cheese in the 1920s she would transport them 60 Km from Bra by horse to Turin. It was she who introduced the Genovese to Bra Duro, a hard cheese which travels well and doesn’t require much looking after – and it was the Genovese who … Continue reading
Felice come una Pasqua…Easter in Northern Italy
The bells are ringing all over town. For a minute or so, they drown out the low throaty coos of the pigeons which seem to have nested outside my window under the eaves.It’s Easter Sunday in Bra, a small town in Piemonte, northern Italy. A light rain is falling and the temperature has dropped, yet … Continue reading
On Peeling Artichokes (& Potatoes) in Saluzzo
I’m standing in the spotless kitchen of Piero Boaglio, chef at the San Giovanni Hotel De Charme in Saluzzo, a picture-book medieval town in northern Italy and seat of an ancient courtly Marquisate founded in 1142. I’d stumbled across the hotel while looking for somewhere to have coffee on my way up to the 13th … Continue reading
La Prima Settimana (First Week)
It’s been unseasonably warm and sunny this past week, interspersed by a few days of rain. Only a few weeks ago, it was snowing in Bra, something the locals tell me is not uncommon at this time of the year. Suddenly the paddocks we pass in the bus on the way to UNISG are a … Continue reading
My Master’s Degree in Italian “Documenti”
“Sei quasi Italiana,” (“you’re almost Italian”) Giovanni declared when I told him that the office at the Comune was closed. He rolled his eyes, shrugged and smiled, sensing my frustration with the amount of red tape I had to wade through before I could settle in Italy. It was my third attempt to get my … Continue reading
The Angel of Freedom (or why I’m now living in Italy)
It’s Sunday lunchtime in Bra, a small town in Piemonte, northern Italy, and all the shutters are drawn in the apartment buildings around me.Closed shutters all along via Vittorio Emanuelle, Bra, Sunday afternoon A car rushes by, church bells chime on the hour (also a little after the hour – well, this is Italy), and … Continue reading
Orange Poppy Seed Pancakes
Poached Peaches in their own Pink Syrup
What’s cookin’ on Australia Day?
What’s on your Australia Day menu? Kanga burgers? Hot Smoked Lemon Myrtle Crocodile? Barramundi with Green Ants? Wattleseed pavlova? Just kidding. But it’s odd, isn’t it, how we still shy away from using native Australian ingredients in our cuisine. Here we live on a continent which offers up to 4,000 different varieties of edible bush … Continue reading
Individual Coconut Lime Cheesecakes
Christmas Bruschetta
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