TOP AUSSIE NOSH The revamped Royal Mail Hotel (519 Spencer St, West Melbourne) is flying in by light aircraft fresh produce from Flinders Island, including crays. Open under new owner Jen Matthews for seven weeks, and with a new chef, the pub also offers your basic $10-$12 mains and plenty of grub for the kids. Watch out for wallaby and smoky bacon sausages, roo burgers and other national emblems. VIN JONES Look for new twists in Thai-influenced modern Australian cooking […]
Month: March 2007
IN THE BLACK: In the trenches – March 2007
Here’s the problem: Australia is very good at digging stuff out of the ground, and it’s very good at planting loads of stuff in the ground and growing it. What the country isn’t so good at is making high-value products – whether they be minerals or food staples – out of those raw materials. According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), the Australian food industry exports 95 per cent of food in bulk and in minimally […]
Farmers’ markets: are they worth it?
Honeycomb from St Kilda Farmers’ market: worth it. Hopping in your car and going to the St Kilda Farmers’ Market (Peanut Farm Reserve, Chauncer St) this Saturday? From Salon (via Crikey!): “Worried about the global warming impact of the fossil fuel consumed by the trucks that bring your tomatoes from hundreds of miles away to your local supermarket? In a life-cycle analysis, the couple of miles that you drive in your car to get to the supermarket and back does […]