Great Ocean Food: Perfect pesto
I was looking at an article I wrote about Easter a few years ago. Our world has been turned upside down in a few...
Great Ocean Food: Fit for a President
What a difference a fortnight can make.Since I last wrote the weather has turned from unseasonably cold to positively balmy, the Melbourne Cup has...
Great Ocean Food: Footy finals and casseroles
It may have been an unusual time and venue for this year's Grand Final, but the wintery weather we associate with AFL football has...
Great Ocean Food: Preserving family traditions
Last time I wrote of fermenting and the interest shown in the process by my daughter. She follows her grandparents and their interest in food....
Great Ocean Food: Book brings fond memories
My daughter gave me a cookbook from left field for Father's Day this year. It is a guide to fermentation written by the chefs...
Great Ocean Food: Reminisce of Japan
You may have read my last column in which our French cousin was to be married. The service went ahead despite some covid restrictions...
Great Ocean Food: French wedding
But for Covid, our family would be in Lyon now preparing for my cousin's wedding. She is one of triplets and the first to be...
Great Ocean Food: Unearthing hidden treasures
As regular readers will now know, this food column has morphed into a travelogue during COVID times.
Recalling journeys past and recreating culinary experiences at...Great Ocean Food: Puglia
More lockdowns, more restrictions, but this week I’m off to southern Italy; Puglia to be precise.
While this journey may be mind travel only, I...Great Ocean Food: Travelling to Bali
This week, my COVID travel takes me back to Bali.
I have only visited the Indonesian island once, but I know many people in our...Great Ocean Food: Travelling to Hobart
In my last article, I proposed the idea of travelling through cooking at home. It worked for us wonderfully.
We have spent time in Greece...Great Ocean Food: Experiencing the world from the kitchen
We had planned to attend a family wedding in France this year before the current virus arrived and turned the world upside down.
Like so...Great Ocean Food: The way we breakfast
Breakfast is an interesting meal. It seems to always be consumed in a hurry. The people I know who still take time over breakfast...
Great Ocean Food: It’s a small world
It is 40 years since I moved from home in Geelong and into a residential college at the University of Melbourne.
The world was my...Great Ocean Food: A different Mother’s Day
Like many last weekend we had a Mother’s Day lunch without our mothers.
A strange concept indeed, but more bizarre times I have not seen...Great Ocean Food: Gnocchi all over the world
Making gnocchi has never been my strong suit. Eating it has.
I consider myself somewhat of an expert gnocchi judge. For me, the appreciation of...Great Ocean Food: Grow it, slow it
Like many issues today, the relatively simple problem of food waste becomes incredibly complicated to fix. The fact is we waste vast amounts of food...