April 1, 2021
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...
November 12, 2020
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...
October 29, 2020
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...
October 15, 2020
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....
October 1, 2020
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...
September 17, 2020
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...
September 3, 2020
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...
August 20, 2020
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...
August 6, 2020
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...
July 23, 2020
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...
July 9, 2020
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...
June 25, 2020
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...
June 11, 2020
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...
May 28, 2020
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...
May 14, 2020
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...
April 16, 2020
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...
March 19, 2020
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...
March 5, 2020
Great Ocean Food: Local knowledge
It never ceases to amaze me how important childhood summer holidays are in people’s lives.
My personal “unsubstantiated by nothing” theory is that as we...
February 20, 2020
Great Ocean Food: Cheers to the locals
There are so many interesting enterprises in our region. I stumbled across yet another while driving close to home a few weeks back.
Freshwater Creek...
January 23, 2020
Great Ocean Food: Salad days
Like most people at this time of year, we’ve had many family functions to attend. This is no chore for me, as we always...
January 9, 2020
Great Ocean Food: Christmas cravings
We had a wonderful Christmas day spent with family in Lorne. The weather was almost perfect and there was plenty of food, wine and...
December 12, 2019
Great Ocean Food: Ham it up this Christmas
It is always a pleasure for me to catch up with ex-customers. It has been three years since I sold my business in Torquay...
November 28, 2019
Great Ocean Food: Golden history
We had two family functions to attend on the weekend. Both were in country Victoria and some distance apart, so we stayed at The...
November 14, 2019
Great Ocean Food: A breakfast to celebrate
I had a birthday last week. No milestone event, but creeping towards the one starting with six!
We started the day having breakfast with...Latest News
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