The Australian, Entrepreneur Importers accept the necessity of strict biosecurity measures but can find that their implementation is hard to swallow, writes Ed Charles | November 30, 2007 LAST month Melbourne-based food importer Friend & Burrell was forced to destroy 80kg of the prized Porcini mushrooms. Another exotic food importer reports that truffles — the underground fungus — were ruined because they heated up and spoiled during fumigation. It’s all part of the bureaucracy and sometimes heavy and slow handling […]
Month: November 2007
Local secrets
Herald Sun, Citystyle For diners wanting a cheap, authentic Asian or African meal, Melbourne’s suburbs offer a world of flavours. To get some insider knowledge, ED CHARLES talks to five people about the neigbourhoods they visit for a taste of their homeland. The secret to a memorable experience, he discovers, is to know which dish to order from which restaurant Ethiopian IT’S the coffee ceremony and the traditional meals that Elleni Bereded-Samuel misses most from her homeland of Ethiopia. She […]
Flower power – it’s my summer of garden love
Too young to have participated, too old to be conceived then I really feel that I missed out on the summer of love. Now, the 40th anniversary of the summer of 1967, I enter what can only soon become my autumn of Viagra. For now though I’m enjoying flower power. Last southern summer while traveling in Cambodia and Laos my structured front garden of small hedges died. I didn’t like the design too much and replaced it with a 4 […]