March 2nd, 2017 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
2016 Good Food Guide Chef of the Year (and one-time skilled marksman for the Finnish army) Pasi Petanen was done with pop-ups. He’d scored plenty of acclaim for his one-off Cafe Paci restaurant – which was only meant to stick around for a year, but got extended to two and a half years by popular […]
February 16th, 2017 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | 1 Comment »
Danielle Alvarez studied art history, but luckily for us, she realised that it was food that monopolised her thoughts – after all, she can happily identify the “eggshell crust” on a Cuban sandwich and was always prioritising her next cooking project. So she decided to spend her life in kitchens. Danielle’s first-ever gig was at […]
January 7th, 2017 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
It was dragonboat racing – of all things – that led to Toby Wilson running his own cafe at 22. The Wedge Espresso in Glebe was a sliver of a space; when it launched, Toby managed to run the whole place with just a sandwich press and a fridge – “that was all my cooking […]
December 19th, 2016 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
In the last year, Lauren Eldridge has worked at the world’s best restaurant (Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana), impressed the greatest living Italian chef with fairy bread and a punch to the face, whipped dessert with ropes in India and rolled croissants in Paris with Guy Savoy, the ‘magician of French cuisine’. Not bad for someone […]
November 20th, 2016 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | 1 Comment »
In a past life, Mike Bennie used to help famous figures like Russell Crowe, A Tribe Called Quest, Baby John Burgess, as well as (future Prime Minister) Malcolm Turnbull and then Lord Mayor Lucy Turnbull pick wines. The Rootstock Sydney co-founder and award-winning wine communicator takes us on a few flashbacks to that memorable time […]
November 16th, 2016 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
Arriving as an exchange student from California, Nancy Singleton Hachisu originally planned a short visit to Japan, but 26 years later – she’s still there. A relationship with a Japanese organic farmer is what upended her plans and saw her settling into an 80-something-old farmhouse that’s been passed down his family for multiple generations. During […]
October 1st, 2016 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | Leave A Comment »
The band Kiss has played a surprising role in Glen Goodwin’s career. A love of the group led to his first job, as delivery boy to restaurateurs such as Neil Perry. It also played a pivotal part in how he ended up in New York. He worked there for 12 years – with bosses such […]
August 29th, 2016 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | 1 Comment »
“The fire was creeping up on me,” says Ibrahim Kasif. “It was pretty scary.” He was working at Porteno – on what was meant to be a normal day – when smoke began to billow through the atrium. He headed up to to the roof to check for problems – and found it raging with […]
July 22nd, 2016 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | 6 Comments »
Helen Yee is one of Sydney’s OG food bloggers. Even unreformed blog haters probably make an exception for her site, Grab Your Fork, which she started back in 2004 – before the iPhone was even invented, let alone Twitter or Instagram. Since then, Grab Your Fork has been listed as one of the world’s 50 […]
June 28th, 2016 | by Lee Tran Lam | published in Latest, Podcasts | 1 Comment »
How do you make an impression on Rene Redzepi? Turn up with 300 wild plants – painstakingly gathered over four days – to present to Noma’s award-winning chef. That’s what Elijah (EJ) Holland did – and hand-picking lemon aspen and diving for seaweed definitely paid off as EJ became a key part of the Noma […]