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Uncle Tony’s Garden Minestrone

Uncle Tony’s Garden Minestrone – A childhood recollection of a recipe.

A tomato is big when your hands are small, and a row of tomato plants is a land of mysterious adventure. You have to find fifteen and they have to be the right size, each tomato fits in both your hands when you cup them together to make a bowl.

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Clipper Café Glebe

Clipper Café – An alfresco diners perspective.

The sun is shining, I am deeply engaged in my book, it’s Sunday morning and occasions like these call for someone else to make breakfast.

Holy Goat Cheese Take Medal!

The La Luna Cheese wheel is a awe inspiring thing. Sitting as the centre piece on the table at Wednesday nights gala award dinner it was chevre's answer to the lazy susan - it's huge.

Sustainable Gourmet

The word gourmet is under siege. Too frequently is gourmet seen on packaged, processed foods. The word used as a device , in an arsenal of many, to justify a higher price at the register and in doing so the words over use has perverted it's true meaning.

Likewise, the word sustainable is suffering from a similar overuse dilution syndrome.

However, if you put them together they become greater than the sum of their parts and an elegant way to surmise the true meaning of the Sydney Royal President's medal.