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Jan 01, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 1 Comments

Great moments in octopus food styling

Making any recipe that involves gluing fake eyelashes onto spaghetti is never a good idea. From Woman’s Day’s 250 Quick & Easy Recipes.

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Dec 27, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Menu for Hope 5: 100 hours left

Food bloggers’ annual raffle, Menu for Hope, is on again and with 100 hours left to run, chances are good that you’ll win prizes aplenty. Get over to Chez Pim to check out the full list or to Tomato for the South East Asian edition. I’m not offering a prize

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Dec 22, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

ACA goes after faux import beer

Guess what? Blogging can change the food system. A few months back I wrote about faux import beer: the beer that looks imported but is actually brewed locally or by some third party. Yesterday, in The Age: The Australian Consumers Association is demanding clearer, more prominent labels on bottles of

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Dec 12, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Future of Fish in the NYT

It’s taking me a while to catch up on my reading at the moment, but Mark Bittman’s overview of the decline of fish is worth a look. From Bittman: Industrial aquaculture — sometimes called the blue revolution — is following the same pattern as land-based agriculture. Edible food is being

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Dec 04, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 6 Comments

Food Pornographers against Internet Censorship

Bananas! If you haven’t been following Australian news, the Australian Government is about to embark upon its attempt to censor the Internet (or at least, censor websites and not HTTPS, IPv6, encrypted data or the torrentz, which is where the depraved of Australia will flee to get their porny fix).

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Nov 24, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Food Blogging as Wunderkammer

More than occasionally I wonder what is food blogging and how can it continue to differ (and differentiate itself) from other media. The late-90s chestnut of blogging being “all about community” has been all but superseded by real communities moving online. As much as I’m not a huge fan of

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Nov 12, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 8 Comments

How to make coconut milk

I make my own coconut milk. It tastes nuttier and richer than that from a can, and frankly, I enjoy spending vast amounts of my spare time preparing food. Most recipes for making milk mention grating up the coconut or extracting the white flesh with a zester or fork –

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Nov 03, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 1 Comments

Red Emperor, Melbourne

Har gau from Red Emperor, Melbourne I always thought that only tourists ate on Southbank. It’s the wrong side of the river for me; that strange cultural divide that bisects Melbourne wherein both sides can say that the other is the morally and culturally wrong side. Since the Casino that

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