Around Town

Last week I was ask by the lovely Kari Morris of Morris Kitchen to assist in catering an Aesop lunch event at Jackon Pollock's house in East Hampton to celebrate the opening of their new store. The food, the setting and the company were breath-taking. We were lucky enough to be accompanied by the incredibly talented photographer Nicole Franzen, to capture the beautiful day. 

Murdoch Books and The Bookery Cook have cooked up an exciting way for you win an exclusive framed recipe artwork plus a copy of The Bookery Cook. 

Austin is one of the hot spots in food right now, so needing a break from a never-ending New York winter, I jumped at the opportunity when a friend invited me to join them for the weekend at SXSW festival. The perfect excuse for a weekend to eat BBQ, drink beer, go dancing and bask in the sunshine. 

There are some things about American Supermarkets that still baffle me. How can it be easier to buy a pigs’ hoof than desiccated coconut? Why are deodorants, hair spray and face wash kept behind locked cabinets? Where they sell whole octopus, baby sharks and clams but not almond milk?

I've never butchered a pig before, but have always wanted to. So needless to say was very excited about the first day of school this term.. it was the first day of our charcuterie class and our first chance to break down a whole pig. Be warned, images are not for the faint hearted, or animal loving. 

Meet Jameson Fink. He's a jeans-wearing, champagne-drinking kind of guy, who loves wine in all shapes and forms, in other words a man after our own heart. 

From melted cheese to dried bulls penis, when hungover we'll go to great lengths to alleviate it. Aside from a "reparations-bajer" (ie. recovery beer), a common theme to the alleged remedies seems to be the ‘diversion tactic’ – consuming foodstuffs so vile that your hangover eases as your brain focuses on dispelling the foulness in your mouth.

Christmas a year ago I was given a cookbook that inspired me to combine my love of sequins, glitter and food. 

I decided to follow my heart, my heart and my stomach and enrol in Culinary School here in New York City. I'm studying at  The Intenrational Culinary Center (formally the French Culinary Institute) in the heart and soul of the American food scene, New York City.

With this latest Exhibition Sydney artist Ears exhibits a preview of his very special limited edition book. The book is not one you read by turning the pages from a bound spine, but instead its a floating stack of original and digital prints, hand drawn illustrations, oil paintings, watercolours, polaroids and more, all condensed into a flower press style binding, with hand painted covers finished with beeswax and bolted shut with brass wing nuts. 

With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, and the looming first attempt at every cooking turkey, I decided to stop, reflect and take a look at the stuffing phenomenon. 

In case you didn't get the earlier memo, BC Contributing Artist HAW has been working with Indigenous kids from the remote Pilbara region in Western Australia to produce a 3-part sci-fi interactive comic, NEOMAD. 

To spread the love of NEOMAD comic further, its FREE to download during October at the iTune store! So get your iPad, your mum's iPad, your fathers, your sister, your brothers, cousins, your neighbours, your friends, your uncle Bobs iPad ready for some download action! 

Guess in Greenpoint is an underground dinner club run by Aimee Hunter. Set in the basement of her Greenpoint apartment. Each dinner has a different themed and the space is completely converted each time.

Peter Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her!
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And then he kept her very well! 

Chef and owner of Sydney's The Dip/co-founder of Heaps Decent/DJ and general facilitator Andrew Levins has written a cookbook ...and he's throwing some parties to celebrate ! 

Check the dates, buy the cookbook. 

7 hours, 48,000 oysters and bottomless of glasses of champagne, sound like you've died and gone to heaven? Well, it's pretty close- welcome to a Sunday afternoon in Montreal at the 4th Annual Oyster Festival. 

From New York to Nambour we stumble upon Husk and Honey - a colourful little cafe tucked away in the traditional sugar cane capital of the Sunshine coast.  Husk and Honey is 'going against the grain' as a gluten free, grain free cafe run by Tania Hubbart and her husband who released cookbook on the gluten-grain free cuisine last year. 

Whenever we think of what not to eat when pregnant, a few things instantly spring to mind... no alcohol, no smoking, no raw fish, shrimp, no eggs. 

When asked why he painted Campbell's soup cans, Warhol famously quipped, "I used to have the same [Campbell's soup] lunch every day for twenty years."

In honour of the 50th anniversary of Warhol's iconic artwork, Campbell’s has released four different limited edition labels for their condensed tomato soup. Each label features bright colours reminiscent of Warhol's work, an image of the man himself, and one of his sayings.

Living in the ghetto has a lot of benefits, getting called beautiful 5 times in 3 blocks, being able to cook paella for 10 for under $50, liquors stores open past 10pm on weeknights, and getting a vegetable juice at 3am.

An Exhibition of Abstract Paintings by Nadine Sawyer...

So what happens when a comic artist collaborates with 15 indigenous kids from the Pilbarra desert? NEOMAD, the first ever indigenous interactive digital sci-fi comic!

Having a sweet tooth is not one thing that we are known for, however when the craving comes aknocking there's no point only eating an apple to try and satisfy the need for sugar when there's goats cheese cake, molten chocolate cake and brioche doughtnuts on offer. 

Usually festivals are associated with dancing, drinking, eating occassionally, music, friends and generally lots of movements and being active, with minimal focus on food. The first Googa Mooga festival, held in NYC's Prospect Park on Saturday and Sunday, was exactly the opposite. A festival with 120% focus on the food and -20% on movement.

Sydney-based artist Vexta will have her third solo exhibition at the gallery in April 2012. 

Cerealize is a online custom-built cereal facility where you can tweak your breakfast cereal and have it delivered to you in a personalised box.

Just what 2 of the world's most obese nations need most: 24hr cupcake vending machines.

Some pics from recent re-testing sessions of recipes in our Book! 

UK charities The Elephant Family and Action for Children have introduced a whole new level to one of the most treasured pastimes of all...egg hunting. This massive hunt around London combines art, design and ... gigantic eggs ...scrambled together for a good cause!