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WHO warns of cancer causing chemical in hot chips
A CHEMICAL created when starchy foods are cooked at high temperatures has been proven to cause cancer, the World Health Organisation says. The main foods in which the chemical acrylamide has been detected include fried or roasted potatoes, potato crisps, coffee and cereal-based products, including biscuits and toasted bread. A joint WHO and United Nations [...]
Manjimup biggest truffle producer in Southern Hemisphere
Manjimup biggest truffle producer in Southern Hemisphere Manjimup, Western Australia has found itself on the world culinary map as the biggest producing region in the southern hemisphere of black truffles. While France, Spain and Italy are the biggest growers in Europe there is a seasonal shortage of black truffles. It’s during our winter that Manjimup [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Under-used cuts become beef masterpieces
Under-used cuts become beef masterpieces Meat and Livestock Australia has started a red meat revolution in the form of beef ‘masterpieces’. Its goal is to provide chefs with the information they need to master under-used and underrated cuts of red meat – the ‘masterpieces’, as the association calls them – adding excitement to menus. 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” [...]
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 [...]
Restaurants swap menus for iPads
While some initially dismissed Apple’s iPad as an oversized iPhone, the mini-notebook may, in fact, change food service forever. Some savvy restaurateurs have been quick to make use of the technology by trading their usual, hard-copy, menu lists for iPads. Rydges Hotel in North Sydney has introduced 10 iPads in its eatery, Mundo Global Tapas [...]
Tasty text
As technology changes, so too does consumer expectations of the type of restaurant service being offered. Online ordering has been one way things have altered – think of the success of sites like www.menulog.com, making things faster and more convenient for customers. Now, the explosion of “smart” phones and text messaging has seen the food [...]
