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Mar 03, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 6 Comments

Rotisserie = home

I’ve moved into the house of an expatriate Slovenian bootlegger and as soon as I’ve set up a rotisserie, it feels like home again. If there is a single item of cookware that I could be trapped with on a desert island, it would be the rotisserie, although only if

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

Guerrilla Garden Bounty

The best part of growing a garden is harvesting more than you can eat in a single sitting. It’s easy to see how harvest festivals started with a seemingly endless bounty of food in a few scant weeks of ripeness. The bucket of “Tommy Toe” heirloom tomatoes is hardly endless

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Jan 27, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 4 Comments

Gong Xi Fa Cai, Rendang

Another year, another chance for lion dancers to molest the unwary. The risk of a lion dancer catching aflame grows each year. The hanging iceberg lettuce attracts them. Welcome to the Chinese New Year. I had a vague plan to hit up some dumpling joints but was derailed by a

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Jan 03, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees 10 Comments

Backyard Pizza

Happy New Year. The great Australian side effect of Baby Boomers with too much time on their hands is the backyard pizza oven. I’m certainly not complaining. For all that grief that has been caused by Gen-X being locked out of the managerial class is now being repaid in hot,

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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 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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