From the monthly archives:

March 2010

It’s Always Better With Butter

March 31, 2010
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Luxury food items are everywhere. Easy to find and even easier to load onto your credit card, feeling like quite the little miss. Then, jarringly, you receive the dreaded monthly statement that reminds you, and almost verifies that decadence, does indeed, come at a cost. That is, until you remember the wise words that someone once told you ‘It’s all relative’.

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Il Mio Stomaco, Il Mio Cuore (My Stomach, My Heart)

March 24, 2010

Joseph Raineri, a first generation Australian-born Italian with Sicilian parents is an expert in eating. No matter how menacing the ceiling fan..

Also get the low down on one of Sicily’s most famous and delicious cheeses: Ragusano caciocavallo…

WIN: A family-sized deli platter from PR Raineri in Five Dock by COMMENTING on this article!

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Foodprints

March 19, 2010

By Gastronomy Gal
It’s funny how you can be oblivious to your own quirks until somebody helpfully points them out. In my case, that somebody was my boyfriend, and the quirk was my obsession with food. I was having one of my routine whinges of “I don’t know what to take for lunch” when he piped [...]

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The Masked Apprentice, Episode 1

March 9, 2010

by M (Apprentice at a fine dining restaurant in Sydney)
A Restaurant kitchen has to be kept meticulously clean, not a filthy spoon here or a dirty line there, “sparkling” as they say. It’s true, commercial kitchens are clean…literally. Figuratively however, they are a completely different story… You want to know the dirty side of cooking? [...]

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Summer puddings

March 1, 2010

By Lisa Manche, Spicy Ice Cream
Summer makes me kind of nostalgic. My thoughts return to my days at school and the long, lazy summer holidays I used to spend at my Grandparents’ house. Every day was spent picking pomegranates from the tree and dislodging each ruby gem one by one, scoffing down [...]

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