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Dim Sum touched my heart 2008-07-20 13:34:00 The literal translation of Dim Sum
, the food served at Yum Cha, is 'touch the heart' which can be taken to mean your heart's delight.
It is said that the meal Yum Cha (meaning to drink tea) began as a range of snacks on offer in the tea houses that dotted The Silk Road from 300BC, connecting China to the trade routes of Europe and Africa via Asia Minor. Today there are in the vicinity of two
Chanterelles? I nearly Blewitt 2008-07-19 03:29:00 ‘Are you content now?’ said the Caterpillar. ‘Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn’t mind,’ said Alice: ‘three inches is such a wretched height to be.’ ‘It is a very good height indeed!’ said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high). ‘But I’m not used to it!’ pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone.
Chat & Chew - Melbourne Writers Festival 2008-07-17 05:02:00 Friday the 18th of July sees the launch of the Melbourne
Writer's Festival
Program with a free supplement in The Age newspaper. For those who prefer not to buy the paper the full program is online here.
I think the Melbourne Writers
Festival has been fairly low key outside of the Arts Community but it can actually be quite rewarding to attend, especially for non professionals.
On
...And we're back 2008-07-16 08:18:00 “Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over,
the plate's empty.” LORETTA LYNN
It's been a couple of months since I last ate a pie and PiEcon, the meat pie blog, has languished in favour of a multitude of other tasks. Then over the weekend while touring potential wedding venues on the peninsula I caved in to
Comfort Food. The price of humility 2008-07-13 09:10:00 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. HELEN KELLER
Each day I thank the universe for the good fortune of living in a country where at my fingertips I am able Read more:price
Caught on a snag 2008-07-11 00:18:00 The sausage is one of the first ever convenience foods with the etymology of its name being derived from the Latin salsus - or salted. The German word 'wurst' is derived from the Latin vertere, to turn, to roll, indicating the shape of the item.
The Romans are the first credited with its production in Europe and noted by the premier Gourmand of the time, Apicius, in 1AD as being pounded Read more:Caught
SOLE Mama Forum 2008-08-07 23:18:00 Introducing SOLE Mama - she's a sassy wench ain't she?
She's about sharing the love and pooling everyone’s resources to find the best value nutritional food you can locally for your family’s health, but not spending a fortune in the process.
She's a forum...a website...a blog.
But mostly she's about swapping ideas and knowledge.
She won't beat you around the head for not eating Read more:Forum
Tightening the belt. A silver lining 2008-08-06 22:15:00 Starbucks may not be the last casualty of the economic slowdown on the Australian Capital Territory's food and catering scene, according to an expert.
The coffee chain is closing 61 outlets across the country blaming challenges unique to the Australian market. All four Starbucks branches in Canberra will close from Sunday with the loss of about 50 jobs.
Fiona Wright from the ACT Restaurant
WTF? Pizza's a snip now 2008-08-05 07:26:00 Does the act of cutting up a pizza vex you to no end? Do you find yourself with numerous nicks and cuts on your palms because you constantly use the wrong end of a pizza cutter to slice pies? Lucky for you, there's pizza scissors. The manufacturer claims the US$20 shears-and-spatula design won't damage plates or trays like a pizza wheel or knife would, but we think if that's the main reason you Read more:Pizza
Taking Stock Chinese Style 2008-07-31 12:00:00 To possess the services of a good Chinese
Chef in one's home is like having a prima donna in close vicinity. He includes all the talents of a connoisseur with the knowledge of a herb doctor, the sensitivity of a mother-in-law, and the benevolence of a clucking hen. He once held the title of Dai Si Mo which means "Grand Charge of Cuisine Affairs" and through the ages his title has grown i Read more:Taking
, Stock
, Style
Untying the Apron Strings. Marketing Chefs 2008-07-27 22:02:00 Gordon Ramsay on his eight-year-old son Jack:
“Yesterday he came running in and said, 'Dad, what's a wanker?',” said Ramsay.
“I explained to him it meant like being a bit of an idiot and he replied, 'Oh, you mean like a knob?' So I had to sit him down and found out that this was coming from the 16-year-olds on the bus who'd decided to teach Jack Ramsay a different swear word every day.” Read more:Apron
, Marketing
, Chefs
Cheeses Geist! Please submit for the sake of our Cheesemakers... 2008-08-20 09:32:00 Roquefort Carles from Will Studd's Cheese Slices
Photograph & Copyright by my talented friend Adrian Lander
Traditional consumption of raw milk
Domesticated animals were first used for milk eight to ten thousand years ago, as a genetic change effecting mostly people in Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Africa enabled them to digest milk as adults. Milk from domesticated animals then bega Read more:Please
Do you know the way to Sunnybrae? 2008-08-28 06:28:00 Do you know the way to San Jose?
I've been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way.
Do you know the way to San Jose?
I’m going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose.
Kisch Tini stood resplendent in a leopard skin turban and matching one piece swimming costume in the shallows of Sorrento front beach. The light bouncing off the water glinted against ropes of gold jewelry nestling
Pick Mee. Hokkien Mee. 2008-09-28 22:43:00 Dear Diary, it is day five of our holiday and Stickyfingers is still dropping food into her cleavage.
Mr Stickyfingers' Malaysian Holiday Diary, May 08
Hawker food. It excites me. Towards my middle age, sex is sadly becoming a distant dream, but the thought of hunkering down beside a cart to eat a simply prepared dish - that's native to an Asian culture - makes me positively rapturous. Read more:Hokkien
Bully Beef: David Vs Goliath 2008-09-20 21:52:00 STEPHEN LONG: In Australia, in the food business, two retail giants dominate the supply chain. It's among the highest concentrations of retail power in the developed world.
Last month the competition watchdog delivered its report on grocery prices. It says the market is working.
GRAEME SAMUEL, ACCC CHAIRMAN: We characterise it as workably competitive.
STEPHEN LONG: But there's another Read more:Bully
, David
, Goliath
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