The Yukon Culinary Festival – Local Food, Under the Midnight Sun
I know you think I’ve gone mad and I can hear you asking – why on earth is this woman writing about the Yukon Culinary Festival? Simple – it’s a distinctive regional food festival in a fascinating...
View ArticleFilipino Street Food – Barbecue Heaven!
To say that I ate well while in the Philippines for the KitchenAid Gourmet Summit earlier this year would be a gross understatement. Every time I turned around there was another fabulous dining...
View ArticleTop 5 Tips For Surviving a Long-Haul Flight
I’m currently coordinating my travel plans for the rest of the year. It’s all very exciting having the opportunity to travel the world, seeing loads of new places, but one of the down-sides to living...
View ArticleWeekend Baking Recipe – Honey Orange Brioche
Well, we are back on planet normal after our indulgent week in Vietnam, most of which we spent lolling around a fabulous resort which I’ll share with you later. Back here in real life the absence of a...
View ArticleOzHarvest Adelaide Milestones & A Delicious Recipe for Left-Over Moroccan...
Food security is a pretty big issue world wide these days and regular readers will know of my ongoing support for OzHarvest, the Australian food rescue organisation that does such a brilliant job of...
View ArticleBack to the Bees – the Fairmont Waterfront Bees
I’ve been very happy to find myself back in Vancouver this week and even more happy to have a chance to check up on how the bees on the roof of the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel are getting along. I first...
View ArticleCookbook Reviews – A Modern Way to Eat & Through the Seasons
If there’s one thing that makes my heart beat a little faster it’s a new cookbook, so you can imagine how pleased I was to get home from my travels and find two of them waiting in the post for me! The...
View ArticleWin a Package for Cheesefest 2014
Well, it’s one of my favourite times of the year again and Cheesefest 2014 is just around the corner. This fabulous gathering of cheese, especially South Australian cheese, is now in it’s ninth year...
View ArticleExploring Chocolate in Montreal
Chocolate makes me happy, so discovering that I was to spend a day exploring the chocolate secrets of Montreal was guaranteed to make me very happy indeed. (...)Read the rest of Exploring Chocolate in...
View ArticleBuffalo Dairy Herd – A First for South Australia
The boldest buffalo lady in the herd. Back in the last century, when I was a mere slip of a thing, the entirety of my cheese experience consisted of the nasty blue boxes of Kraft “cheese” that were...
View ArticleA Week-Long Party – Cruisin’ Country with Choose Your Cruise
The Pacific Ocean – so, so blue! Cruisin Country, Royal Caribbean International. There are some travel experiences that I had thought were best saved for my twilight years (you know – bus trips round...
View ArticleAustralia’s First Raw Blue Cheese – South Australian Cheese Makers Kicking...
King Saul Raw Blue Cheese It is just possible that I may be a little biased, but as far as I’m concerned South Australia punches well above it’s weight when it comes to exceptional food production....
View ArticleRosewater and Pistachio Marshmallows
Rosewater & Pistachio Marshmallows Okay – it’s now officially less than a month until Christmas. I’m often not the most organised person and, in years past, I have had the excuse of kids school...
View ArticleÎle d’Orléans – The Garden of Quebec, Canada
Gorgeous – even on such a grey day, Île d’Orléans, Quebec. Given the fact that I hadn’t made it to Quebec City on any of my previous trips to Canada, I was pretty excited to get there this year and...
View ArticleSummer Food & Wine Festivals in South Australia
View image | gettyimages.com It’s only eight sleeps to go until the fat man does his rounds and I’m still determined not to panic.(...)Read the rest of Summer Food & Wine Festivals in South...
View ArticleTa Pies – Aussie Lunch in Montreal
Lamingtons a long way from home – in Ta Pies, Montreal. I’ve said it before – Canada is full of surprises, but the last thing I expected to see in a small shop on the chic streets of Montreal was a jar...
View ArticleMiddle Eastern Beetroot & Feta Salad
Middle Eastern Beetroot & Feta Salad My veggie gardening efforts have been quite modest over the last couple of years – mostly due to the amount of time I’ve spent travelling and the lack of...
View ArticleFood Tours – Adelaide’s Central Market Tour
Mark Gleeson of Central Market Tours (image by Grant Nowell) I’ve been hanging around food markets for more years than I care to think about. Wherever I travel, I make it a point to check out the local...
View ArticleQuebec City
No, not a European street, this is Quebec City As I mentioned in my post on the Île d’Orléans, my immune system let me down rather badly on my arrival in Quebec City, but I was determined not to let...
View ArticleThe High Line Park New York City
The High Line linear park, NYC I’ve travelled a lot in the last few years – at one point last year I think I’d been in 12 different countries in just over 12 months – and one of my most exciting trips...
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