My story about the egos and clashes behind the restaurant awards season appears in The Bulletin (that’s our local version of Newsweek) today. The brief agreed with news editor Tim Blair was end of restaurant awards guide season, bruised egos etc. Innocent questions stimulated an interesting response from the people behind The Age (our local daily broadsheet) Good Food Guide. Shannon Bennett’s Vue de Monde I’d heard was upgraded from two to three hats but The Age had only checked […]
Month: October 2005
The Bulletin: Whose restaurant rules?
My story about the egos and clashes behind the restaurant awards season appears in The Bulletin (that’s our local version of Newsweek) today. More background to this story over at Tomato. Flaming egos and acerbic critics. Why, it must be the annual restaurant awards. Ed Charles reports. Melbourne chef Shannon Bennett won’t be banning the critics. But he might ban you. Especially if you don’t keep a reservation or are rude or shove his staff. Bennett is the hottest chef […]
Cooking the old fashioned way: pasar gato por liebre
Image pinched from the Humane Society International.For obvious reasons I don’t have my own picture for this entry for the Cooking the Old fashioned way quarterly event. I’ve long been fascinated by the kinds of old-fashioned foods that we no longer bother eating.At mama Tomato’s, in country England not too far from the university city of Cambridge, almost everything is for the picking. Plums are eaten from the tree and eventually made into jam and chutney. Sloes and sugar are […]
Sorrell risotto: the comic
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The Sheet: Adelaide Bank delegates credit process to Great Southern
Assuming Great Southern sustains its growth rate of 50 per cent, the plantation company will be seeking funding from Adelaide Bank of in excess of $300 million in the 2005/2006 year.Most of the people becoming “growers” with Great Southern are referred by their accountants or financial advisers and are hoping to minimise tax while investing. For example, a person in the top tax bracket who invested the minimum $3000 (plus GST) in a plantation would be able to finance it […]
The Sheet: Great Southern Bank
Great Southern Plantations is one of the fastest growing banks that you’ve never heard of.For the most part of the “noughties” Great Southern has been writing loans to plantation growers as part of an attractive tax-based investment scheme, which has a product ruling from the Australian Taxation Office.The company is not actually a bank, but rather a forestry company. Great Southern also does a lot of lending, and takes decisions about which loans are funded by its partner in this […]
Designer kitchen on a budget
Photography: Christina Simons My kitchen was about a big suck. At least I didn’t have much of a suck and I wanted a big one.We were forced to revamp it after a so-called friend managed to flood the house. I’d long been railing again our mushroom coloured units, specified by the previous owner and colour matched to some German automobile. I’d also been pissed-off about the extractor fan, which actually only recirculated through the ceiling. It meant that if I […]
The Australian: High dollar yields tough times
High dollar heralds tough times ahead – AGRIBUSINESS – SPECIAL REPORT By Ed Charles Currency A HIGH Australian dollar means a healthy economy and a resources boom, but it signals tough times ahead for farmers. BIS Shrapnel senior economist Matthew Hassan says the high dollar is bad for most exporters, aside from resources. Most Australian businesses would be competitive at exchange rates of US65-66c rather than the high 70s, he says. The problem is that the high currency is being […]
What’s the point of truffled honey?
That’s all we ask. We were served it with some chutney and quince paste accompanying cheese – a Grandorge pont l’Eveque, Roy de Vallees and Rouzaire Coulommiers. We’re only asking.