There's been a lot of heated milk talk lately
There’s been a lot of heated milk talk lately. On April 27th Murray Goulburn, Australia’s largest milk processor, unexpectedly cut its 2015-16 milk price to farmers from around 45c a litre to 35c a litre. The cut covered the previous ten months and meant farmers suddenly owed Murray Goulburn and average $127,000 each. New Zealand owned Fonterra, the second […]
Once you see the emu……
Last week we were up on the Murray River near Renmark looking at an incredibly bright night sky. My wife was showing her Uncle John the dark emu, a sort of unconstellation that exists in the negative space of the milky way (something as familiar to Aboriginal culture as the Shopping Trolley aka Orion’s Belt […]
It takes a global village to make a chocolate cake
To the Aztecs cacao was money; in 14th century Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, one cacao bean would get you a pretty decent tamale while for 100 beans you could pick up a turkey. Cacao beans were made into xocoatl, the local drink of choice, thought to impart good health and virility. When the invading Spanish […]
Smalt: Oh fudge! The best cooking job in Melbourne.
Sometimes when you’re away from home a thing finds its way into your life that you find so engaging, so joyful, so essential it comes to define your future and maybe even who you are. Because when you come home and you find the thing isn’t available you decide, with the fervour of the newly […]
Friends who stick around during soup weather. Spare warehouse anyone?
Being friends with a zucchini or a tomato is easy; they’re great company and can effortlessly slip into so many social situations. But as convivial as they are come winter zucchini, tomato, eggplant, cucumber et al have headed off to farmer’s markets in Provence or Southern Italian harvest festivals leaving us feeling as deflated as a […]
CERES is appealing
For the most part CERES generates its money through social enterprises like Fair Food, but there’s a gap (there’s always a gap). Once a year we put it out there and ask for your help. It’s a one time thing – we hit you up and then let everybody get on with it. See our […]
