From The Australian, Wealth: Building a portfolio of multi-million-dollar properties is easier than you might have thought, Ed Charles writes | July 18, 2007 WHAT can be better than owning property? All you need to do is to know how to navigate the mortgage maze and have a sense of timingfor the peaks and troughs of the property market to build a multimillion-dollar portfolio, according to experts. It also takes self-discipline and nerves of steel, as you will need what […]
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Multiple loans or one-lender
From The Australian, Wealth: Ed Charles | July 18, 2007 ONCE upon a time it was difficult to borrow money. The major banks required a 20 per cent deposit and some evidence of financial prudence. Now, thanks to the influx of smaller lenders known as the non-banks, it’s possible to borrow more than the value of an asset. The trouble is choosing the best product and which lender will give the best service. “Because there are so many loans, low-doc, […]
FAMILY IS A BIG BOTTLER — ANGOVE’S
The Australian, Entrepreneur: Victoria Angove continues to push her family’s heritage further, Ed Charles reports. BEING the fifth generation of family to enter a business founded in 1886 doesn’t preclude Victoria Angove from being entrepreneurial. At the age of 29 she is charged with developing the Angove’s wine company’s international markets to diversify export risk and build sales, which is like building a new company itself. That said, there are also many benefits of selling an established family business abroad. […]
Branch out to survive
BRANCH OUT TO SURVIVE By Ed Charles From The Australian, Entrepreneur: AGRIBUSINESS Finding new ventures can help grape growers improve their profitability, writes Ed Charles THE lot of the winegrower is one of feast or famine. After years of bumper harvests and over-capacity, there’s a drought. While this will address the supply imbalance, says Mark McKenzie, executive director of Wine Grape Growers Australia (WGGA), the industry still needs to radically restructure. It needs to be entrepreneurial, finding other sources of […]
Tuesday cheese porn
Oh yes, bring on the runny Camembert LaClarines and stinky blue Roquefort. As steve says below it’s a bit like vacherin although a bit more creamy. Somebody sold me this while using Camerbert in the same breath. Hmmmm.
A new smell?
The freshness of oxygen, nail polish, flash of metal, cellulosic smell, pure air of the high mountains, sand dunes, fire energy, ultimate fusion, washing drying in the wind, burnt rubber, mineral intensity of carbon, flaming rock. What on earth am I? I couldn’t resist.
Art flow chart
Photo pinched from Lost at E Minor. Sorry. I just couldn’t resist this, found via Lost at E Minor, for the wall of the Tomato offices. It’s a limited edition print from UK designer Jamie Wieck. He says: “This menu design grew out of my hatred for the number of rules eateries impose on their customers. Using the East London restaurant Bistrotheque as a foundation I rationalised all the reasons why someone would go to a restaurant. By taking into […]
Everything you needed to know about cooking beef (but were afraid to ask Heston Blumenthal)
…or experiments in molecular gastronomy parts 2 and 3 He’s a tricky one to have in the kitchen our Heston Blumenthal. Everything is very technical, usually takes about two days to prepare and I’m too scared to argue with him about any of his techniques. I’m even having trouble finding some of the stuff he uses like his stainless steel injection baster. I feel that I really need to work up to his recipes. To do this I’ve recruited a […]
The future of food and fascism
The future of cooking: In the kitchen at Interlude A couple of weeks ago I spent the afternoon in the kitchen of Robin Wickens and his chefs at Interlude. He was developing a new lamb dish which involved spraying coffee in the air while eating it (you may recall later that night I sucked on the glass straw). This weekend my account of that afternoon and subsequent meal was published in The Australian. Local chef George Biron points me towards […]