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December 24, 2021
Food and Drink

Mulling over spiced wine

Everything you ever wanted to know about mulled wine.

August 4, 2017
Food and Drink, General Articles, Wine

The flame thrower

Alice Feiring is not just a writer and passionate advocate for natural wines. She’s also controversial, as Felicity Carter discovers.

May 12, 2016
Animal stories, Food and Drink, General Articles

Hunting as conservation

Hunting for pleasure? Or hunting as valuable contribution to society? A look at Germany’s ‘protector and caretaker’ system.

May 2, 2016
Food and Drink

Gordon Ramsay: the mouth that roared

Felicity Carter survives an interview with the colourful over-achiever, Gordon Ramsay.

November 30, 2015
Food and Drink, Wine

Where are all the wine stories?

One of the biggest buzzwords in wine today is ‘stories’, with producers constantly being told to tell their stories. So…

August 28, 2015
Food and Drink, General Articles

Why eating together is important

Nutrition is about more than the quality of your food. It’s also who you share it with.

July 26, 2015
Food and Drink, Travel

A foodie’s guide to Lyon

Lyon is the historic birthplace of French culinary culture and it remains the gastronomic centre of the country, where the…

July 25, 2015
Food and Drink, General Articles, Travel

24 hours in Pisa

A leaning tower may be its claim to fame, but Pisa is also propped up by a fine Tuscan food…

July 25, 2015
Food and Drink

The zest for limoncello

True limoncello is made from Sorrento lemons, from trees overlooking the Mediterranean. But an artisanal Australian version might be even…

July 24, 2015
Food and Drink, Travel

Harry’s Café de Wheels

The view over the Harbour might be every bit as spectacular as that of a waterfront restaurant, but you couldn’t…

July 23, 2015
Food and Drink, Travel

A foodie’s guide to Vienna

When most people think ‘Vienna’, they think chocolates, cake and coffee. But modern Vienna is a European culinary capital.

July 22, 2015
Food and Drink, Wine

MW: the masters of wine

To pass the formidable MW exam, students need to understand forks and DAFTAs, and have a robust backside.

July 22, 2015
Food and Drink, Travel, Wine

Airline wine in the good old days

When Pamela Polglase worked as a Qantas air hostess in the early 1950s, she looked after just 30 passengers. That…

July 21, 2015
Food and Drink

Absinthe: Bohemian green

Why was absinthe so important to the Belle Epoque? Felicity Carter threw a soiree to test its creative powers.

July 20, 2015
Food and Drink

Monk business: Chartreuse liqueur

  It sounds like something from The Da Vinci Code. The year was 1605 and, in a small suburb of Paris,…

July 19, 2015
Food and Drink

The vodka wars

Felicity Carter discovers Europe is in the middle of a new Cold War. The chilling topic? Vodka.

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