They all have to eat tasteless food. Have you ever wondered why food tastes pretty bland when you're 36,000 feet up (10,973m) in the air? It turns out there are a host of factors preventing you from having a tasty meal when you're not eating at or near sea level,…
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…
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…
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…
“Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose”, as the French say. Literally this means that no matter how much things change, they still stay the same. And we could say the same to about half the things that various pundits are predicting will be the new food trends of…
Well, probably not quite everything. Given that we have already covered bread and cheese, we thought it might be time to cover what often comes between the bread and the cheese. And although many people are happy to slap a bit of cheese straight on to a hunk of bread,…
In case you hadn't noticed, all of the topics covered here on The Grind are in some way related – admittedly in many cases distantly - to either knives or knife sharpeners, or both. Funny that! Anyway a while back we put together a short article on cheese, and the…
The Grind has covered the topic of kitchen gadgets several times before, ranging from the 'useless' to the 'essential'. But as every year passes, new kitchen gadgets appear, with some disappearing almost instantly, some becoming the kitchen equivalent of a one-hit-wonder and others becoming permanent fixtures in kitchens around the…
Not to be confused with sushi, sashimi is the Japanese term for a dish that comprises raw fish cut into very thin slices, generally using a specialised sashimi knife (like this one) which is flat on one side. Sushi (also referred to as 'nigiri') on the other hand is the…