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Go Tobie! Go an Aussie Mango
Tobie Puttock is promoting this season’s Australian Mangoes, and they’re in the shops now!
Author Archive for Fred Harden
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.
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.
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.
Olive oil joins Supermarket price war
By Fred Harden on Mar 21, 2011 in Fresh!
Milk, eggs, now oil. This spells disaster for local growers. What chance Coles and Woolworths will answer these tough questions?
Redefining our wine in North America
By Fred Harden on Feb 19, 2011 in Fresh!
“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.
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.
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…
By Fred Harden on Jan 05, 2011 in Harvest
…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”.
Bah! Rum pa pum pum
By Fred Harden on Dec 14, 2010 in Uncategorized
This song is now playing on rotation everywhere I shop, on rotation with Little Drummer Boy that is.
Classic Strawberry Pavlova
By Fred Harden on Dec 09, 2010 in Kitchen ~ Recipes
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.
Rage against the oil
By Fred Harden on Nov 09, 2010 in Fresh!
The truffle oil tide is turning. Chefs can no longer pretend that it is anything other than a chemical, (and they wouldn’t use artificial vanilla essence anymore would they?).
Cooking with truffles #3 -The recipes
By Fred Harden on Sep 02, 2010 in Kitchen ~ Recipes
The temptation is to show off with this expensive ingredient. Starting simply gives rewards.