So the sun is coming out (hopefully) but either way we are celebrating! It’s just that time again. Work slowly starts to roll into one hangover after another, family appearances begin to grow and we are all starting to envisage a time in the near future that includes cocktails and not computers. Whatever way you celebrate these coming Christmas holidays, [...]
With the New South Wales election fast approaching, a new poll has revealed overwhelming support by NSW voters for the idea of new state legislation to ban smoking in outdoor dining areas. A new independent Newspoll survey commissioned by Cancer Council and the Heart Foundation has found that 83 per cent of the voters surveyed said they supported the banning [...]
LONDON: If you’re the sort to constantly rail against wine markups in restaurants, a couple of recent developments might cheer you up a little. A new iPhone app called Wine Search has just been released which enables you to pinpoint exactly how big a markup restaurants are putting on the bottles on their list. And D&D, one of London’s biggest [...]
Ties, sports coats and frocks were once de rigueur at fine dining establishments. These days, dress codes are more relaxed, but are swimmers, thongs and shorts going too far? The attire worn at Sydney’s fine dining restaurants has come under the microscope after the aforementioned items made an appearance at two of the city’s top eateries. A group of blokes [...]
As we head into the anxious holiday season, it is not difficult to notice that the entire city begins to slip into a slight craze of panic and mayhem as December eases along. Drivers go into fighting mode searching for parking spots, shoppers get manic trying to find another present for Grandpa after realising the last copy of Nigella’s Christmas [...]
Kugelhopf is a yeast cake that contains raisins and sometimes chocolate drops. It is baked in a high crown-like mould and originated from Austria. The word has various spellings but is derived from the German word Kugel, meaning a ball. It is said that Austrian’s Marie Antoinette’s fondness for this type of dough made the introduction of similar cakes very fashionable in France. [...]
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