In Australia the prison population – according to 2015 figures – stands at just over 36,000 people.
In our recent scout around the internet looking for the latest news on chefs knives and knife care we took a quick peek at Facebook…
Looking back to this time last year, we put together a part tongue-in-cheek, part serious review of trends we’d noticed, and what we predicted might become trends in 2015 (with the help of Google)…
The word ’emporium’ derives from the ancient Greek word for a merchant ’emporion’ which in turn derives from the Greek word for ‘to journey’.
It’s fair to say you’d be hard pressed to publish a daily news update on developments in the world of kitchen knives, chefs knives and professional kitchen knives – things move quite slowly in this…
When Angela Poile left school, there was really only one place she was destined to get a job, and that was at the family business her grandparents started back in 1976.
If you read our interview of jobbing chef Otis Greder (A sharp knife gives you the edge in the commercial kitchen) a while ago, you’ll understand the importance of keeping all the knives in a commercial kitchen as sharp as they can be.
After working for twenty-four years as a flight attendant for a major Australian airline, Lee Smith made what might be seen as an unusual second career choice – she retrained as a butcher.
With only a day to go until we have to wave goodbye to the year that was 2014, now might be a good time to review a few of the trends in cooking and in the kitchen over the past year.
We are probably offering this advice a little late for Christmas, but we’ve been trawling the web looking for inspiration for Christmas gifts ourselves and thought we would share some of the more unusual kitchen and cooking related items we found out there.