Australia

Apr 24, 2013 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

A trending history of Australian home-baked goods

The relative Google search volumes for various popular Australian cake recipes.

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Mar 04, 2013 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Ambient intimacy

While I’m working for Tourism Victoria, I’m not writing Victorian restaurant reviews or about Victorian product more generally on this blog. This is very much self-imposed. There is too much scope for conflicts of interest. I can hardly accuse a TV show’s kitchen of sucking while having to front up

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Dec 22, 2012 | Post by: Phil Lees 5 Comments

Footscray Market – Opening Hours, Christmas 2012

In what is fast becoming a tradition, my local market, Footscray Market, has failed to post opening hours anywhere online. Opening hours for the market over the Christmas/New Year’s period 2012 are: Monday 24 December (Christmas Eve): 7:00am-4:00pm 25-26 December: Closed Thursday 27 December: 7:00am – 6:00pm Friday 28 December:

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Oct 18, 2012 | Post by: Phil Lees 12 Comments

Australian food blogging list updated; no longer tracking freebies

I’ve updated my Australian Food Blog list: it will forever be incomplete but the best that I can do. I’ve decided to stop tracking bloggers who receive free meals, cash or other incentives in exchange for writing posts because I can’t keep up with them and for the most part

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Aug 29, 2012 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

#WEFO T-Shirt

A while back there was a discussion amongst West Footscray locals about the etymology of the suburb’s abbreviation “wefo”, a discussion started by its commodification by this $65 cushion from design gallery Post Industrial Design. I’d first seen the suburb referred to as WeFo in an email from November 2008

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Jun 28, 2012 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments

Warning to Coles shoppers: ROBOTS TOUCH YOUR FOOD.

You know what the average shopper at Coles Supermarket fears? Robots. Giant robots who touch their food. This secret informs their latest sleight of hand that boasts that their home delivered food is “Hand picked, hand packed and hand delivered”. Screenshot from http://www.coles.com.au/Shop-Online.aspx/ (full page, 28 June 2012) This was

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Jun 12, 2012 | Post by: Phil Lees 3 Comments

Low hanging fruit

Here’s a community built map of overhanging fruit in (mostly) Melbourne. Not much will be in season at the moment apart from the lemons, so hold off a few months before you selfishly plunder the neighbourhood trees. View Neighbourhood harvest in a larger map

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May 23, 2012 | Post by: Phil Lees 2 Comments

Is authenticity xenophobic?

My favourite Mexican cookbook is Marilyn Tausend’s Cocina De La Familia because it is not devoutly Mexican. Tausend isn’t Mexican and collated her recipes from interviews with home cooks across America rather than in Mexico. Recipes come with the location that they were collected and the Mexican state where the

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