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Finally the Food Replicator
Designer Bruno Oro has come up a futuristic plan for a food replicator he calls ‘Home Sweet Home.’ It would transmit the building blocks that comprise food by copying them from the original dish to a plate in your kitchen. It’s not a transporter, but it’s a little like a pantograph for food because it [...]
Brisbane dominates in Gourmet Traveler Nominations
With six of fifteen nominations in the annual Gourmet Traveler Restaurant Awards Brisbane can lay claims to Australia’s culinary capital. Queensland nominations include Simon Hill of New Farm’s Ortega facing off against Gordon Ramsay’s Maze in Melbourne for the coveted title of New Restaurant of the Year. With the entry of Aria and the revamp [...]
The Phaal phenomenon
Rangoon Colonial Club is a well themed authentic colonial restaurant in the heart of Crows Nest, a busy Sydney suburb on the north side. An upscale and sedate Indian restaurant it well may be but now a hellishly hot curry called phaal is drawing a rowdier crowd. On a busy weekend, the dining room teems [...]
Lufthansa experiments with in-flight flavour
German airline Lufthansa recently went underground in a submerged airplane laboratory to experiment with the culinary effects of dining up in the air. The simulated in-flight environment allowed scientists to determine that passengers taste sweet and salty foods less at higher altitudes, while bitter, spicy and sour ones maintain much of their flavor. Quantifying something [...]
Enter your favourite pork dish, become a Pub Porkstar and win amazing prizes
Enter your favourite pork dish, become a Pub Porkstar and win amazing prizes! Continuing through 2010, the Pub PorkStar competition is part of the nationally recognised and respected PorkStar programme that aims to showcase the skills of pub chefs using the versatile and ever-popular Australian pork. PorkStar is calling on pub chefs to enter in [...]
PADDINGTON RESTAURANT AND BAR SCENE CLIMBS TO NEW LEVEL
The Paddington Woollahra dining scene received an energy injection with the opening of La Scala on Jersey in April this year. Fronted by Darren Simpson, La Scala on Jersey delivers a sophisticated Italian restaurant and cocktail bar sporting Simpson’s trademark simplicity with a cheeky twist. After scaling the grand Italian travertine staircase (La Scala which translates to “the staircase” [...]
Tetsuya to open new restaurant offshore
Top Sydney chef Tetsuya Wakuda is opening a second eatery – in Singapore. The Japanese-born food guru will launch a modern French-Japanese restaurant (similar to Tetsuya’s in Sydney) in Singapore luxury hotel resort and casino Marina Bay Sands by July’s end – his first establishment outside of Oz. The eatery, named Waku Ghin after the [...]
Biggest food price drop in NZ since the ‘50s
Food prices dropped two per cent for the year to June 2010 in New Zealand, according to government agency Statistics New Zealand. It’s the largest yearly fall in food prices since 1957 for the country. Three groups contributed to the drop – fruit and veg (down 9.2 per cent), meat, poultry and fish (down 3.9 [...]
Beer on a champagne budget
A bottle of top-quality French bubbles can cost upwards of $100. Now, a humble beer has reached a price just shy of that. Belgian ale Deus is being sold at $70 for a long-neck at The Wheatsheaf Hotel in the Adelaide suburb of Thebarton. Justifiably, it has been dubbed South Australia’s most exxy beer. Consider this…the [...]
Top 10 veggies reflect consumer tastes
Australians buy carrots, lettuce, potatoes and tomatoes twice as much as any other veggie, according to a report by AUSVEG. The report, VEGINSIGHTS: The Market Q4 2009, is a first for the industry in analysing consumer and market trends. Capsicums, mushrooms, broccolis, pumpkin and zucchinis completed the top 10, though these were bought by less [...]
