Guest Blogs

What I am about to offer here is not a seafood book review, restaurant review or a recipe. It is the brief tale of my strange weekend that includes all three, and my subsequent realization that my salmon feasts must become a quarterly treat as I try to aim lower in the food chain to sustain myself. 

We're big fans of cured meats, as is guest blogger John Barrett. This week he gives you another easy charcuterie recipe that gives you fairly quick, great tasting results. 

If you're suffering from post-Melbourne-Food-and-Wine-Festival depression, guest blogger Meelee Soorkia's Pujol review may remind you of those heady days when Enrique Olvera was in town and your Twitter feed was being spammed by food writers saying things like 'Enrique Olvera just said we should eat bugs'.

This colourful and warming lasange features olive-dotted polenta sheets in place of traditional pasta sheets, layers of rich roasted vegetable sauce, and a creamy, salty cannellini bean sauce.

With recent reports of Russian meteor strikes and zombies taking over TV stations, Meelee Soorkia gets nostalgic about the Mayan apocalypse that never happened. She also gives us a recipe fit for a Mayan apocalypse dinner.

John Barrett is a man who appreciates his cured meats, and knows he is no alone in this. Here's John's easy technique for home curing, so all us salted dried meat fiends can keep our fridges, breakfast plates, soups, pasta sauces and mouths well stocked.

Food is fun, generous, sumptuous, beautiful, satisfying, mind consuming, addictive and sickening, just like the perfect mate. So to celebrate Valentine's Day, we've enlisted the expertise of "Internet food police" blogger Cook Suck to compile a list of sexy vs unsexy food.

Greenpoint is blessed to be home to the brand new Selamat Pagi, latest venture of the Van Leewuen crew, and New York’s only restaurant serving up Balinese cuisine.

Guest Blogger Jacq dishes up crispy, chewy (and incredibly moreish) Christmas cookies with an Australian twist - chunky macadamias, fragrant lemon myrtle and fresh lime zest...

Beyond a bastardised cuisine babylon of sloppy beans, soggy enchiladas and obnoxious amounts of melted cheese lies a tastebud utopia of strawberry tamales, zucchini flower burritos, pig snout and coriander salsa tortilla, calabacitas topped with queso blanco, and peppers stuffed with minced pork, plantains, raisins and avocado leaves.

Guest Blogger and resident Mexiphile Meelee Soorkia takes us on a mouthwatering walking tour of the vibrant and colourful streets, people and food of Mexico City... 

This tangy breakfast is comfort food with a twist. Surprisingly light, it is a dish best made on a lazy Sunday, or when the feeling of summer days and swaying gently in hammocks needs evoking. 

With the return of my winter coats, opaque stockings and woolen socks, my craving returns for hot, home cooked, comfort food.  And there's no food in the world that satisfies the 'wanting to eat a cuddle' craving more than Poutine.

While gardening usually conjures up images of suntans, sweat, portable radios, cold beers and rapidly-growing jungle-like harvests, the gardeners amongst us know that many days are spent in cold, rainy, muddy conditions, tending to crops that seems to have plateaued at 10cm. But each have their charm, and the lads at Little Veggie Patch Co let us know what is best to plant in the depths of wintery July...

"Some people live to eat, I live to eat pizza" - Pauli Gee.

In celebration of American Independence Day, Guest Blogger Karina brings us a review about an American icon, the pizza.

From paintings of cafeteria food to sushi painted with images of naked ladies, paper swiss cheese and prosciutto sandwiches to giant silver sausages, Guest Blogger Karina gives us a tour of the food features at two of the world's leading modern art fairs...

There's signature dish and then there's SIGNATURE DISH. This one is of the latter kind - pretty sure Isaac whipped up this baby pretty much every day for a year. Lucky it's a damn good dish and lucky he's a Guest Writer so he can share the recipe with us!

We are pleased as punch to announce a new BC collaboration, and to help you all become more fruitful gardeners! For all you greenthumbs and aspiring greenthumbs (yes rosemary does count) Mat and Fabian from Melbourne's Little Veggie Patch Co will be providing a list of what to plant each month, and some tips. So get out your trowls, watering cans and compost, turn up the radio and put some beers on ice. It's time to get your hands dirty.

This snazzy new 'Pom-Poms' background you can see is the handiwork of the very crafty, gorgeous and repeat-pattern obsessed Brooklyn-based print/ pattern designer, Jess Murphy. 

"Inspired by a mash-up of Rorschach Ink Blots and the stories of the ancient Greeks, 'Pom-Poms'  seeks to lend a bit of haphazardry to pattern design.

"By layering two incongruous objects, both harboring a sort of innocent, yet tempting aura, the work plays on the immaculate and the beguiling. Those that bring cheer and good fortune, and those that have a history rich in temptation and deceit.

"Pom-Poms aims to evoke balance through the transparent and the ambiguous, but above all, it explores the playful side of repetition."

Thanks Jess! XX

If ‘chocolate factory’ conjures up images of Wonka’s waterfall then you aren’t far off the truth – the pouring and whirling of chocolate is a key part of the process. I discovered this recently, when I was lucky to visit the Mast Brothers testing room and factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Our newest guest blogger Eleanor brings us a passionate and comprehensive guide to NYC's iciest pleasures... 

Guest blogger Maya Sundari steps us through how to make luscious fresh chèvre mmmMMM...

This is the first guest blog from good friend,  revered toon maker and DJ from the Dank Morass crew and not to mention, fellow kitchen enthusiast, The Walrus.