Crowdsaucing: preliminary research in. Breaking up with Poly continued.
12 adults, 2 kids, various buckets, colanders, pots, jars and 100 kilos of tomatoes found themselves in Crowdsaucing co-ordinator Monique Miller’s backyard yesterday participating in some serious research for our first Crowdsaucing Day this coming April 30th. You can watch passata masters on YouTube, read about sauce making in glossy preserving books, even talk to folk […]
I believe the children are our future. A food host story.
I was at the new Melbourne Wholesale Markets in Epping last Thursday morning when I ran into an old friend I hadn’t seen for a while. He has four children from his first marriage and his current partner has four children from her first marriage. He told me that they’re about to have a baby […]
Polystyrene esky there's something I need to tell you. Everybody's talking soup at me.
For a long time now I’ve been having this conversation over and over in my head – it goes something like….. …..Polystyrene esky, I think we need to change our relationship. I know we’ve been together for a long time but it feels like we’ve got this unhealthy co-dependant thing going on. It’s, it’s….it’s….well you’re […]
Could you be a Crowdsaucer? Richmond Food Host are you out there?
We have tomato growers in Victoria, we have food processors in Melbourne. Why can’t we just put them together to can or bottle organic tomatoes here in Australian instead of importing them from Italy? I mean how hard can it be? This is a conversation we’ve been having at Fair Food for a long time now. We decided we’d […]
Something for nothing and your lemons for free
This morning I was out walking when I came across a man wiping down the large green box that controls the traffic lights at our local school crossing. I asked him what he was doing and he said he was cleaning off the graffiti and that he does it quite regularly. The selflessness of it got me thinking […]
Weekly Update: New Loaves at Loafer, and New Food Hosts at Fair Food
NEW LOAVES AT LOAFER BREADS Loafer Bread in North Fitzroy is a bakery close to my heart; dreamed up in 2002 by the very tall and charismatic Canadians, Antoine and Georg Von Baich. These wild eyed yet softly spoken brothers had a vision but almost no money. I can remember walking into the shell of […]
