Welcome to the space I share with Alex White. Check out Cooking for recipes, new products and recipes; find out about all things liquid in Drinking; restaurant reviews and news in Eating Out; and explore other places and tours in Travelling. We were in France last year: find out about places to stay, restaurants, wineries, markets and other places in Paris, Burgundy and Perigord. Click here. 

Visiting Melbourne? Or living in Melbourne? Check out the Eating Out page for places to eat in the central city area, and some others. See the Reading page (it's with Cooking) for what books I am reading, and an account of the wonderful Lady Clark of Tillypronie. See Travelling for news of Hobart, Nelson, San Francisco and Seattle, a good restaurant in Paris, and more in Bordeaux and what's happening in the delicious world of King Salmon in New Zealand. There's also some tips for Burgundy, should you be there. In Drinking, there's news of what's happening in vineyards in Chablis,  the celebration of 35 years of Main Ridge Estate on the Mornington Peninsula, and a report on the wineries we visited in Burgundy, including some of our favourite wines from vintage 2008. BBC is part of Drinking, too.  

Last year we hosted a week in the Dordogne, immersed in regional life. Think truffles, chestnuts, gateaux, chateaux, mushrooms, foie gras, ducks, markets. Download the full itinerary at www.dordogne-country-house.com  Do check the site.  We're taking bookings for next year. It's a great week of exploring local food and wines, meeting producers, enjoying the life of a small village.   

Books written and on the go: More than French: recipes & stories, which I wrote with Philippe Mouchel (published by Slattery Media), and a new edition of 50 Fabulous Chocolate Cakes (published by Penguin) were both released in 2011. Coming in 2012 will be Melbourne by Menu: an irregular history of people and eating to be published by Slattery Media in September.  

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