I worked with Jeremy at The George in St. Kilda and to honour his memory we will be donating 30% of all purchases of Moondarra Old School Nebbiolo this month to Movember to assist with men’s mental health.
Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men’s health on a global scale...
"Erudition and common sense are not always bedfellows," wrote British food writer Jane Davidson, reviewing Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book. But that was Grigson. She wrote beautifully about practical matters. She wrote about the British countryside and the food that grew in it, how it was cooked,...
There are times when the only correct response is excess and ludicrousy. The bottle of Burgundy lay in the bottom of his satchel as He climbed the hill from the tram stop. The Number 58. As the tram trundled by, He imagined what sort of relationships were formed by people travelling from one...
I love Marwood Yeatman. Some of you may have read his writing. Many of you will never have heard of him. The elusive private chef lives in an old pub in Hampshire, England, with his wife, a photographer.
This is a story by retired cook and restaurateur George Biron. How I stopped worrying about the wine list and learned to love pinot noir.
In 2016, American food commentator and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain declared, "Fergus Henderson is the most influential chef of the last two decades, even though you have likely never heard of him."
She was an activist who wanted to change the world. She went to university and discovered French culture. She went to France and discovered French food. In London, she found the teachings of holistic educationalist Maria Montessori. On her return to America she realised that by the act of doing...
An Odd Date
It had been some time since he called through the order. Good Peking duck can’t be rushed, he thought to himself. Waiting in his car, Neil had taken the moment to study the layer of dust that covered the dashboard. There were fist imprints in places where he had struck it,...
WHAT'S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT?
Lately, natural (or non-interventionist) wines have been the buzzword of many new wine bars and restaurants across Australia. But isn’t wine a natural product anyway? I mean, it comes from grapes right?
NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS
I've described some of our wines recently as 'Post Punk'. To me Gravner and Radikon were ‘Punk’ when I drank '98 Breg with James Broadway and Kevin McArthy in 2OO2. I had grown restless as a wine consumer and this was my personal 4 June 1976 Manchester Lesser Free...
