A walk Around the Dyarubbin
It’s a good hour’s drive north-west of Sydney to Produce By The River, the Muscat family farm at Pitt Town Bottoms, not far from the historic town of Windsor on … Continue reading
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Ramadan Nights Sydney 2022
The sun was just slipping beneath the horizon when I arrived at the IQRO mosque in Wiley Park, western Sydney. Despite a few grey clouds hovering in the distance it … Continue reading
Yalawanyi Ganya Long Table Dinner
Chef Clayton Donovan is standing behind me, a white jug in one hand, a spoon in the other. He’s wearing a tweed beret and I glimpse a Dead Kennedys t-shirt … Continue reading
Apples of Love for Valentine’s Day
A tiny village in Valencia, Spain, hosts a tomato festival, La Tomatina, each year at the height of summer. Actually it sounds to me more like a tomato war than … Continue reading
July 2022 School Holiday Kids Cooking Classes
Dance the Orange
Dance the orange.Who can forget it,how, drowning in itself, it grewagainst its being-sweet. -Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, 1,15 It’s not just the look of oranges glowing like lamps … Continue reading
Meditation on Passionfruit
used to be plump and glossy but his mackintosh has shrunk as he sucks in his cheeks while somewhere inside the room he is giving you the pip with a … Continue reading
Green Seaweed Sourdough: fabulous future food
Chef Gary Fishwick is kneading a soft lump of bright green sourdough on a demonstration table at the Manly Art Gallery.Above him hang quirky shapes of dried seaweed and small … Continue reading
Carol SelvaRajah on Dining with Dragons
My late friend Carol SelvaRajah was honoured today with a Medal of the Order of Australia. It is heartwarming to see other women of colour being recognised in the Australia Day … Continue reading
January 2021 Mini Chef Kids Cooking Classes
Good news: my Mini Chef kids cooking classes are up and running again and we’ll be making a wide range of delicious, nutritious and yummy dishes. My kids cooking classes aim to … Continue reading
Christmas 2020 Mini Chef Cooking Classes
What gift do you most treasure at Christmas? For me, the most precious is the home-made present, the one which expresses something of the personality of the giver. It doesn’t … Continue reading
Meditation on Quinces
It had a cloak of ash-coloured down hovering over its smooth golden body, and when it lay naked in my hand, with nothing more than its daffodil-coloured shift, it made … Continue reading
One Banana, Two Banana…
Here’s a curious fact: the banana is actually not a fruit at all, but really a giant broadleaf herb.Now grown throughout the world, it is believed to be one of … Continue reading
Virtual Cocktails @Dante NYC
Want to learn how to make a classic Negroni from the owners of the Best Bar in the World? CBS Sunday Morning just featured my son, Linden Pride, and his … Continue reading
The Cake-maker: National Reconciliation Week 2020
I felt like sobbing when I heard Aboriginal artist, Sandra Hill, speaking on the ABCRN Arts Show yesterday. This particular segment, where she is talking about her “Home-maker Series” (specifically … Continue reading
The Original Anzac
How was the original Anzac biscuit made? The biscuit, that is, not the soldier!
I hold my classes in my home in a beautiful setting which spills out into the garden where the children and I have fun looking at and identifying the various herbs and vegetable I grow, weather
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