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In 1923 George V was on the throne in Britain, Billy Hughes and then Stanley Bruce were both Prime Minister and construction began on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and on the original Parliament House (then called the 'Provisional Parliament House' and now 'Old Parliament House') in Canberra. 1923 also saw…
Catching the news today that Gordon Ramsay has filmed a new series of Kitchen Nightmares after a decade long break made us think 'what makes people want to open a restaurant?'. After all, in the first series he unearthed a veritable smorgasbord of major problems in the restaurants and cafes…
So far we've covered a range of common types of knives defined by what they cut, for example the bread knife, the cheese knife and the butter knife, but now we're into the realms of more esoteric knives that are out there, but probably not in everyone's kitchen drawer (don't…
Knife sharpening has been around as long as knives have been around and – depending on your definition of what a knife is – knives and things to sharpen them have been around for more than 3 million years, or at least these are the oldest artefacts discovered by archaeologists…
Imagine you've just got home after a long day at work – you're on your own and you need something to eat. You say what you'd like to eat - to the room - and 45 minutes later you're eating it. No, you don't have servants and you're not staying…
A blink of an eye ago - just over a year ago - we embarked on a review of all the food trends we thought were worthy of mention for the forthcoming year. So now, as we research the same topic again for this year, we have a very strong…
Now that we're into December there's no avoiding it – Christmas is just around the corner. And on that basis, namely that we have an excuse to talk about all things Christmas that we just can't get away with at other times of the year, we're going to take full…
About once a year we have an irresistible urge to check out what new and sometimes pretty whacky kitchen gadgets have come on the market. And quite coincidentally it's been about a year since our last look around! Looking at what's out there, we've already covered quite a few of…
In truth most people don't really think about knife 'skills' – instead it's assumed to be pretty straightforward. To quote Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame, 'how hard can it be?'. But if you want to get really good in the kitchen or if you want to pursue a career…
Remember when we used to travel around the world, pick up interesting kitchen items thinking we were going to use them all the time at home – and then never did? It's a bit like alcoholic drinks popular in some countries which haven't really 'travelled' well to Australia. The one…