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Eating 27/9/21 Eating 27/9/21

Food for Music

Laura Vaughan and Donald Nicolson gave a concert on October 7 in the wonderful Melbourne Digital Concert Hall streamed series.

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Eating 4/6/21 Eating 4/6/21

I am thinking about restaurants - as I always do

In Melbourne, we're coming out of lockdown. It’s been a bleak time for restaurants, although many have managed by preparing food for pick-up of delivery.

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Eating 16/5/21 Eating 16/5/21

Farewelling Hermann Schneider

Hermann Schneider, on Friday May 14. He was probably the single most influential chef in Melbourne, and a trendsetter and leader for 40 years.

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Eating 31/7/18 Eating 31/7/18

This week I am preparing lectures

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What’s Rita cooking? Chicken tagine with preserved lemon. There should have been olives too but I forgot to add them. Still a good dish to eat! Served with couscous and broccoli. #whatsritacooking #tagine #chicken #shabbatshalom
What’s Rita eating? Everything barbecued @thequeclub. Starting with crab cakes and ending with pineapple sorbet with barbecued grapefruit segments - great idea, the warmth takes the edge off the acidity, just as sugar modifies the pineapple. I
What’s Rita eating? Tortellini @grossigrill. There’s a lot of talk about the simplicity of Italian food, but it is deceptively simple. For these, there’s the pasta dough,the beef ragu for the filling, getting the cooking time right,
Melbourne, in abstract mood. I love the views from @sofitelmelbourneoncollins. More cheerful when it’s sunny, but this has its own attraction. #weather #rainymelbourne
What’s Rita cooking? Bread. This is my first success using an Emile Henry baking dome. I’m very interested to see how the texture and crust changes according to the baking shape. Usually I use a bread tin ( so old it would be considered a
Vale Klaus Lemm. This book was first published in 1986, when he was chef at The Regent (which became Sofitel Melbourne). That was when I first met him. He bought a restaurant called Hagger’s, at the corner of Russell St, downstairs from where G
What’s Rita cooking? Turnip gratin, adapted slightly from a @pmouchel recipe. Sliced blanched turnips on top of shallot and - ideally, silverbeet leaves, but I used the outer leaves of a cos lettuce. Milk, cream, an egg, seasonings - and althou
The rewards of a cold winter: truffle, just unearthed, with a clever dog in the background. #whatsritaeating #truffles #winter #yarravalleytruffles
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