Do Mangoes like poetry?

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Mangoes

In my latest book, The Cook’s Garden, there’s a poem by Richard Tipping which goes like this: mangoes are not cigarettes mangoes are fleshy sinful passionate fruits mangoes are hungry to be sucked mangoes are glad to be stuck in the teeth mangoes like slush & kissing mangoes are not cigarettes mangoes are idiosyncratic seasonal [...]

Just Mad About Jamie

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Jamies Italian Lower

It’s 6pm and already a long queue has formed outside Jamie’s Italian restaurant in Pitt Street, Sydney CBD. City workers, eager to get home,thread their way through the crowd. Despite initial concerns that Aussies wouldn’t want to queue, they’ve been happy to do so ever since it opened a few weeks ago.  A long wooden [...]

The Family Meal with Ferran Adria

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Ferran Adria at the Family Meal, El Bulli

When I was invited to the launch of Ferran Adria’s new cookbook a few weeks ago, I expected to find something magnificent, though not a cookbook I would ever take into the kitchen and cook from. Adria, after all, is the former chef and driving force behind El Bulli in north-east Spain, often proclaimed the [...]

Milton-Ulladulla Harbourfeast

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Uladulla Harbour

THE Milton-Ulladulla region will celebrate the return of its annual food and wine festival this weekend. Harbourfeast will kick off with a festival dinner at Cupitt’s Winery on Friday, November 4 and will continue the following day (Saturday, November 5) at the Ulladulla Civic Centre, showcasing the very best the Southern Shoalhaven has to offer [...]

Hallowe’en: it’s not quite what you think

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Haloween pumpkin October 2011

  Last week, a fellow twitterer sent me this message:  “Couldn’t we pass on the Halloween pumpkin carving? Flooded with enough US culture already!” He was was referring to a query of mine on the Mini Chef Facebook page: “Have you ordered your Halloween pumpkin yet (in time to practise your carving skills)?”   I had [...]

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