Trumping anxiety with splendid wrens, old friends and junior football
The cold and wet weather of the past three weeks haven’t been good for my horrible fascination with Donald Trump; I can’t stop watching the hateful pour out of the orange-faced school bully. I can’t quite believe what I’m seeing and hearing and can’t believe there are so many people who think and feel the same […]
We’re all happiest making cheese.
Side by side in an unassuming commercial kitchen identical twin Ukrainain cheesemakers Andriy and Taras Kogut intently cut curds and form them into wheels of gruyere and mozzarella. Bar the sloop of wet curds the room is silent. In a steel and glass cabinet finished cheeses a displayed like works of art. The scene could […]
Broad Bean Dreaming. Basic Fruit Box
Yesterday between rain showers in the little garden we share with our friends we harvested the broad beans. Sticking out of old cooking pots and shopping bags were huge, instantly familiar green pods. These were unmistakably Joe Garita’s beans, broadies that Joe had planted, saved and improved year after year since he bought the Coburg market garden from a Chinese family in 1945. […]
Late Easter Monday morning cut-off for Fair Food orders & You've got that feijoa feeling
This week when you’re busy coming home from an Easter away putting in a Fair Food order is often the last thing on your hot cross bun and chocolate affected mind. Sadly it’s often the time when the cupboard and fridge are at their barest. Fear not, as is our public holiday tradition, we are pushing our […]
Fair Food News for Spring: Fava Festa, Farming, Feasting & More
Click here to read our Fair Food newsletter for Spring, and more about Farmer Joe and Vince’s infamous broadbeans.
Are you a generous cook? The recipe shift.
Okay so next Thursday we’re launching a new box. That’s a food stylist’s impression of it in the picture above. Our new box is about the size of the popular Small Mixed Fruit and Veg – so it’s good for 2 or 3 people and has those cooking essentials like garlic and ginger, herbs, your […]
