Archive for the 'food' Category

Ballina’s last resort

Monday, April 7th, 2008

Well here I am at Ballina Beach Resort, the venue for Ausweb08 - one of the world’s oldest internet based conferences. It doesn’t have the cachet of the newcomers like Web Directions, but it still attracts some good thinkers and some interesting topics.
One of the features of this conference, however, is that it is always […]

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Chokolait - delicious!

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

How spoiled are chocolate lovers in Melbourne? There’s plenty of good retail chocolate - my favourite, the South Australian import, Haighs. But more and more, chocolate shops are about the experience of sitting down, drinking and eating in cosy surroundings - the whole indulgence thing wrapped up.
Until now, Koko Black had this wrapped up - […]

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wipe off that drool!…

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

As of last Tuesday’s Epicure liftout in The Age, everyone is discovering food blogs.
I’m a food lover - a bit of a cook - mostly an eater, who has long enjoyed the vicarious pleasure of food blogs. The epicure article was pretty good, highlighting a bunch of great blogs - some I’ve already seen, many […]

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very old noodles

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Being a big fan of Chinese Food (inserts plug for our favourite local restaurant), and living in a very ‘Italian’ area of Melbourne, I have followed with some interest the debate about who invented the noodle. The Italians insist that Marco Polo introduced it to China, the Chinese argue the reverse. Even the Arab countries […]

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