Observations and rants of a hedonistic polymath who eats between meals and drinks between drinks
Tea has romantically ….or grotesquely …been called Bodhidharma’s eyelids. The description arrived from the legend of the fifth century Buddhist monk who fell asleep during seven years of mediation and was so ashamed when he awoke that he… Read More
Mentioning Matt Preston and Homer Simpson in the same breath may seem like a bizarre non-sequitur. But having heard Matt pontificate from the semi recumbent couch position on TV’s Good News Week, there’s a delicious porcine thread of… Read More
The gentrification of the Australian brewing landscape was given a kick-along this week with the launch of John Boston Premium Lager. This 100 per cent Australian newcomer – and that’s a change from the majority of foreign owned,… Read More
Once upon a time it was one of the simple, accepted dining mores that red wine should be matched with red meat and white wine with fish. Even those whose lips move when they read the menu could… Read More
The Libran star sign which seems to breed food professionals celebrated the Queen Libran foodie’s 85th birthday last week. Margaret Fulton OAM – Australia’s living national treasure – kicked her small but perfectly formed heels up in The… Read More
The recent debacle of naming the new Vegemite abomination came back to firmly bite Kraft on its Vegemite factory. iSnack 2.0…give me a break! The twitterverse and blogosphere went ballistic. Even on the face of it, the dozy… Read More
In the past few months we have had a flurry of restaurant guide launches and their inherent awards with Australian Gourmet Traveller’s national guide, The Age Good Food Guide and The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide…Best Chef,… Read More
With an ever expanding range of grape varieties being grown in this wide brown land, the Australian drinking vernacular is poised for a rethink. Australians abbreviate everything from the common ‘G’day’ salutation to the expletive, ‘Ken Oath’. Then… Read More
I have a number of Chinese female friends whose cheeks quite clearly colour when they have a glass of wine. This has always fascinated me. Certainly other people’s faces flush too but there seems to be a Sino-… Read More
Just when you thought you’d heard enough of eating disorders along comes a new one. But this one has a very different twist – dare I say, almost a healthy twist. We have anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge… Read More
