Thanks to the Margaret River Discovery Co. for this post. Those who love fine chocolate and fine wine find key points of similarity. Both are made from fruit (the cocoa nibs from which chocolate is made are the seeds of…
Go Orange 10 Day Challenge
Our house is participating in the Go Orange 10 Day Challenge – to eat an orange a day for 10 days. I’m up to day three and so far so good. It hardly seems like a challenge because at this…
Cook like an Italian
If you want to cook like an Italian, then you need to learn from the best in the business – makes sense, right? Six Italian chefs are each holding an Italian Cooking Master Class between 20 May and 9 September…
Road trip! Destination Pemberton, WA
The service is slow, but the coffee and the food are good. They even have fresh local marron on their menu. Our late breakfast was almost perfect. Had my poached eggs been soft, they would have oozed the perfect dressing for my charred bread, crispy proscuito, and the sharp-tasting parmesan flakes. Zorba’s poached eggs were soft and runny and he ate up every mouthful of his classic big breakfast. The tables outside under the veranda over looking a park with an old-fashioned shiny steam train parked under the trees sets the scene for the archetypal Australian country-town cafe.
Hanoi: Best margarita in the world at Don’s
In the upmarket neighbourhood of Hanoi’s West Lake district is Don’s, a top-50 restaurant on the San Pellegrino Asia List. Over four floors overlooking the lake, Don’s is owned by the charming Canadian chef Don Berger, who has lived in…