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Deriving joy from owning a dishwasher. Please explain 20 Apr 2012 | 08:31 pm
So here I am with a new (but old) kitchen which includes a mid-2000s dishwasher. Except for a short period ten years ago, I've never lived with a dishwasher and harbour some suspicion of them. How doe...
Deriving joy from owning a dishwasher. Please explain 20 Apr 2012 | 04:31 pm
So here I am with a new (but old) kitchen which includes a mid-2000s dishwasher. Except for a short period ten years ago, I've never lived with a dishwasher and harbour some suspicion of them. How doe...
Do you queue for food? 5 Mar 2012 | 11:52 pm
Holidaying in San Francisco recently, it struck me how often the discourse about obtaining or finding good food is about how long you might have to wait to be served (or seated). We watched people que...
Do you queue for food? 5 Mar 2012 | 06:52 pm
Holidaying in San Francisco recently, it struck me how often the discourse about obtaining or finding good food is about how long you might have to wait to be served (or seated). We watched people que...
Keeping your knives sharp 16 Dec 2011 | 01:12 am
One of my greatest fears when someone asks me to cook with them is the prospect of blunt knives in their kitchen. I hate being asked to finely slice an onion or trim a piece of meat with a large dull-...
Keeping your knives sharp 15 Dec 2011 | 08:12 pm
One of my greatest fears when someone asks me to cook with them is the prospect of blunt knives in their kitchen. I hate being asked to finely slice an onion or trim a piece of meat with a large dull-...
OMG I can still make macarons! 7 Nov 2011 | 12:12 am
Ten months after I last donned my patissier gear and squeezed out a few hundred macarons, I returned to the piping bags for a brief baking blitz. My back hurt for two weeks. So then I made a cake inst...
OMG I can still make macarons! 6 Nov 2011 | 07:12 pm
Ten months after I last donned my patissier gear and squeezed out a few hundred macarons, I returned to the piping bags for a brief baking blitz. My back hurt for two weeks. So then I made a cake inst...
Pierre Hermé's book on macarons is now in English 12 Sep 2011 | 03:12 pm
The most impressive book on macarons is now in English! Pierre Hermé's 2008 French book "Macaron" is out this month in English.
Vanilla slices – glorious, perhaps mundane, quite mysterious 30 Aug 2011 | 11:18 pm
The vanilla slice is one of those standard, humble Australian bakery items that qualifies as "good old" for its longevity and as "humble" because of its modest level of finesse. But there are mysterie...
