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Rosa Jackson
Japanese chef seduces Aussie tastebuds
Tetsuya Wakuda went to Australia 24 years ago in search of kangaroos and koala bears. What he found instead were ocean trout and octopus, two of the local ingredients that…
In France, it’s not Christmas without logs for dessert
Paris pastry chefs are outdoing each other this holiday season in reinventing the most kitsch of all French desserts, the Christmas yule log cake, dressing them in ivy,…
Headbangers flock to Europe’s only heavy-metal karaoke
Beneath the civilised veneer of Helsinki’s broad boulevards lies a throbbing night scene fuelled by tar-coloured liquorice schnapps, lethally sweet cider and Lapin Kulta beer.…
A slice of stone fish, anyone?
So far this could be any dim sum restaurant in Hong Kong. But the menu of stone fish dishes and the lurid green and pink desserts whizzing past on the trolley tell you that…
People read cookbooks in bed and crave comfort food
Cookbooks might be the biggest-selling form of non-fiction ahead of health and gardening, but the well-thumbed and tomato-spattered favourite remains a rarity.