Category Archives: Advice

Home cooking: Whole wheat no-knead bread

Posted on 3 August 2016 by andyq

I’m not sure how in middle age I have become a baker of bread, but it’s a welcome development. I remember marvelling every time a college classmate, Shelley, would make bread. It seemed mostly simple, somewhat complex and an awfully … Continue reading →

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Drinking in Sydney: The Baxter Inn

Posted on 31 July 2016 by andyq

In a hidden basement below Clarence Street in the City is a pumping busy whiskey bar. I’d wanted to try this, because I’m not sure the team behind Shady Pines Saloon can go wrong these days. We first ended up … Continue reading →

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Paris Food Adventures: Le Pantruche, South Pigalle

Posted on 8 May 2016 by andyq

This veal ravioli is a good example of what they do at the bistro Le Pantruche in Pigalle. Nicely plated, a beautiful balance of flavours, and a complex forest of ingredients, the greens and mushrooms, some foam, some sauce and … Continue reading →

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Paris Food Adventures: Bresse Chicken

Posted on 17 April 2016 by andyq

There’s nothing more than I like than an interesting food recommendation… it’s perhaps why I offer the same with my food blogs. So, over a fabulous gin cocktail called The Journalist, a new friend Tristan told us that not only … Continue reading →

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Best daytrips from Paris: Amiens

Posted on 6 April 2016 by andyq

Just over an hour outside of Paris, to the north, is the lovely city of Amiens, population of about 120,000. We were expecting, perhaps, that it would be the kind of place with just one tourist attraction (the famous church, … Continue reading →

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Coffee in Paris: Café Lomi

Posted on 3 April 2016 by andyq

Hidden off in a quiet corner of the 18th is Café Lomi, which apparently opened as a café only after roasting coffee and supplying it to restaurants and specialty coffee houses in Paris. As we’re working our way through lists … Continue reading →

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Travel advice: Tokyo at New Year’s 2015/16

Posted on 30 December 2015 by andyq

Rather than just hoard these notes to myself, I might as well put them on the blog. It would have been useful for me to read something like this before this short trip… though we were so busy preparing other … Continue reading →

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Home Cooking: Heston Blumenthal’s Lemon Tart

Posted on 27 November 2015 by andyq

So, I’m going through a pie-making phase. Why not? All purpose. Slightly retro. Who doesn’t like a piece of pie… or tart, as the case may be? But the last time I made a lemon tart, I remember that it … Continue reading →

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Paris Food Adventures: Aux Merveilleux de Fred

Posted on 13 November 2015 by andyq

At a subconscious level, it’s obvious that the reason for my keeping this recommendation private, given directly to friends or posted on Facebook, is that I can’t imagine that something THIS GOOD is so easily available – if one lives … Continue reading →

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Food Diary: Bishop Sessa, Surry Hills, Sydney

Posted on 21 September 2015 by andyq

Bishop Sessa has been serving delightful, inventive, top-quality food at very moderate prices for some years now. After the much-loved Tabou closed down (the French restaurant with the double-based cheese soufflé…), there was an incarnation called Gotham I believe, and … Continue reading →

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