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A degustation on a lungful of air

November 2, 2011

Busy is a monumental understatement describing my past few months. Ever since returning from New York over 4 months ago, my professional work went into turbo hyper drive and has now settled comfortably into a constant state of wide-eyed panic; I contributed to another freelance writing project with a super tight short turnaround time; and [...]

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Dining on 3 shiny Michelin stars at Daniel, New York

July 5, 2011

We thought 10 days in New York would be enough to get a great taste of the city – to really get under her skin, get to know her and convince her to divulge her secrets. But we were wrong, New York unleashes an overwhelming stream of possibilities on the unsuspecting naive. “The city that [...]

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Frisbees, tiles and lessons in wastage from Wasted popup

May 28, 2011

What’s the most adventurous, most challenging thing you’ve ever eaten? That was the question I posed to my friend, Jo, as we waited outside Ten Buck Alley – the location of Wasted, a new pop-up restaurant in Darlinghurst offering a value-packed 6 course degustation for $70 or matched wines for $120. Most pop up restaurants [...]

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The vegetarian strikes back at Efendy

April 27, 2011

After the meat fuelled posts of late, it’s time I veered off the meat freeway and explore other paths. In recent years I’ve been reading more and more about the types of food groups we eat; where the food comes from; what the Western diet has come to be and even what we’d evolved to [...]

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Paddock to Plate: A degustation of beefed up foodblogger creations

April 17, 2011

My much anticipated followup to the previous post is here. In my last post I introduced The Paddock to Plate project that I and 7 other foodbloggers were participating in, a project designed to increase the appreciation of the process and energy required to get a beef product from paddock to plate. I had been [...]

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Animal Autopsy

November 18, 2010

There were so many events on at SIFF 2010 that one really had to sift through the pages of events, lunches, dinners, email and impromptu twitter announcements to keep on top of the events that most appealed to our individual tastes. On one hand I relished the opportunity to seek out the rare hidden find [...]

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Developing an appreciation for sake at Ocean Room

August 25, 2010

Sake and I got off on the wrong foot. My first encounter with sake was at a young age, many, many years ago, back when I was still studying science at uni. I remember spending a particularly gruelling and long day in the lab performing experiments to extract DNA from bacterial cells (never thought I’d [...]

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Game degustation at Restaurant Balzac, Randwick

July 11, 2010

Foraging is in my blood. The thrill of gathering wild plants and capturing wild animals has been a long obsession of mine, inspired by plenty of Chinese period dramas showing heroic ancient warriors hunting down they prey with bows and arrows and roasting the delicious morsels over a camp fire. I was so obsessed that [...]

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Celebrating in style at Berowra Waters Inn

May 3, 2010

If you read my previous post – you’ll know that I just turned 30 and as it’s widely recognised as a milestone worth celebrating, I was getting spoilt by friends and family. As this year my birthday fell on a midweek day, the Co-pilot took me to Berowra Waters Inn for an early surprise birthday [...]

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Oscillate Wildly with me

August 21, 2009

I’m not really familiar with Newtown as a foodie suburb. Truth be told, if I have any say in choosing suburbs to eat in I generally try to avoid Newtown. Not because there is a shortage of choice for food lovers and shoppers alike – that there is plenty and I love the upbeat vibe [...]