June 20th, 2020 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Natalie Paull once pointed a brûlée torch flame in the wrong direction – and accidentally set a whole docket rail of dessert orders on fire. She’s endured brownie explosions and baking disasters, too. But people rightly associate Natalie with oven-baked triumphs – like the brilliant sweets from her popular Beatrix bakery in Melbourne. Think passionfruit […]
March 26th, 2020 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Charlotte Ree once ate 30 different kinds of croissants during a trip to France – then got a croissant tattoo afterwards. She’s so dedicated to pastries that she’ll stay up until 5:30am to finish a baking marathon. Pulling 120 cakes out of the oven during the hours people reserve for sleeping – and then going […]
December 23rd, 2019 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Angie Prendergast-Sceats once was an olive oil judge, where she had to watch out for vintages that tasted like “rancid feet” and “baby vomit” (such references really did appear on the flavour chart that’s deployed in these contests). But for the last three years, she’s been the culinary director and head chef of Two Good, […]
August 5th, 2019 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Sweet and sour cane-toad legs. Multiple cat recipes. A deadly cocktail you’re not meant to serve. These are some of the fascinating (and deliberately provocative) things you’ll find in Eat The Problem, the 544-page book by American artist and curator Kirsha Kaechele. It’s part cookbook and art project, with an impressive list of collaborators (including […]
December 17th, 2018 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
People actively smuggle Smith & Deli‘s food onto planes – that’s how addictive the dishes are. Interstate regulars even bring their own Tupperware containers and cooler bags, so they can enjoy the food at home. That’s the power of what Shannon Martinez, Mo Wyse and El Rosa are doing at the popular Melbourne vegan deli […]
November 3rd, 2017 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
David McGuinness has frequently taken his sourdough starter on holidays with him to keep it alive. “You have to feed it regularly, like a baby,” he says. This dedication to bread is not surprising, given that he’s the co-founder of Bourke Street Bakery, the Sydney institution that is loved for everything from its chocolate ganache tarts […]
February 25th, 2016 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | 1 Comment »
This has to be one of my favourite podcast episodes. Alex Elliott-Howery, who co-owns the Cornersmith Cafe and Picklery in Marrickville, was awesome to talk to. Her award-winning cafe has a hyper-focus on preservation, fermentation, urban beekeeping, avoiding waste and produce-bartering. As a flipside to the acclaim, she’s also endured pickling disasters that’ve left her […]
December 24th, 2015 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | 3 Comments »
I chat to Magnus Nilsson about his epic new publication (The Nordic Cookbook, which has 700+ recipes that he collated from the region – including 400 recipes that he personally tested at home and features some of the 8000 photographs he took of the area), whether he believes as many World’s 50 Best judges actually […]
December 1st, 2015 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Annabel Crabb once put a laptop in the oven and it wasn’t even the worst thing she’s ever cooked. Rare culinary slip-ups aside, the host of Kitchen Cabinet is brilliant at mastering recipes (she’s just released an excellent cookbook, after all). And her food-transporting game is pretty strong, too – for her ABC TV show, […]
July 29th, 2015 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Working at a restaurant run by the Mafia – that was no big deal for Gregory Llewellyn. In fact, whether it’s blitzing through 300 covers a service in New York, enduring sanity-testing celebrity demands for hotel riders or watching smoke clouds billow into parts of a restaurant where they definitely don’t belong – Gregory has […]