Here’s something I wrote for The Guardian on cooking shows. It’s battle time on Netflix’s cooking competition Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend, and celebrity chef Curtis Stone is facing challenger Mason Hereford. Their task? To cook five courses in 60 minutes with the surprise ingredient (lamb). Each dish must be inspired by street […]
Here’s something I wrote for The Guardian on school lunches. Thank you to everyone who told me what they ate. My daughter has just started prep and, in addition to the herculean task of getting her out the door five mornings a week, we have to pack a lunch. It’s a complex business. Nuts are […]
Yoo hoo! Something I wrote for Tuesday’s The Age Good Food section. * You and your partner have decided to cook together. Bookmarking a recipe for slow-roasted pork belly with Vietnamese slaw, you saunter to the market, envisaging the wonderful evening ahead. Clutching fat wine glasses, you’ll playfully flick each other with tea towels and grate vegetables […]
A little something I wrote for The Age Good Food section. How to be a good 21st-century dinner guest Been invited to a dinner party lately? Probably not. In the olden days people threw them with linen napkins, man-woman-man seating arrangements and a proper cheese course. Nowadays it’s all, “Pop over Friday – I’ll cook!” and […]
A little while ago I posted a question to my Facebook friends: ” Keen cooks, what do you argue about with your partner when cooking in the kitchen?” The results were amusing and illuminating. These were some of the responses. –Mess. I’m a clean as you go type of cook. – “Stir it to the […]
Here’s an article I wrote for SBS Life about how I almost got scurvy. The challenges of new motherhood are well documented, but Kelly Eng hadn’t counted on malnutrition being among them until her own bun was out of the oven. I had my first baby seven months ago. Prior to the little poppet’s arrival, […]
Hi there, Here’s an article I wrote for Gourmet Traveller about working on my friend’s food truck. It was kind of him to let me near his crusty buns. Please note – I’m not a millennial. I was Gen Y in the original text, but the editors must have deemed me too old chook… Enjoy. Bok bok! […]
How to survive and thrive at a buffet
I’m not an early adopter of technology. While the rest of the world is up to their seventh blog, I’m a laggard who is finally clambering aboard the bandwagon 15 years late. Melbourne property prices may be soaring, but for the low low price of $18 I can have my very own patch of cyber […]
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