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November 21, 2024

The Unstoppable Rise of Non-Alcoholic Drinks

Campaigns promoting temporary abstinence from alcohol have made their mark on the calendar, from FebFast and Dry July to Go Sober for October. However, a more permanent change to drinking patterns is emerging, driving enormous growth in the low/no-alcohol drinks market. From red wine to beer and every type of

Native Ingredients are on the Menu

Increasingly chefs are incorporating native ingredients to their menus with a growing appreciation for the unique and diverse flavour offerings.

From Michelin-starred restaurants to national TV shows, cooking has led chef Ross O’Meara on a lifetime of adventures across the globe.

Written by Wendy Hargreaves. A passionate hunter-gatherer, Ross rose to fame raising pigs on Tasmania’s Bruny Island, where he turned fishing and hunting into a career move with ex-restaurant critic Matthew Evans on the SBS TV series Gourmet Farmer. Now Ross lives in Victoria’s High Country tackling one of Australia’s

Orange is the new Spain: Meet the chef creating a little slice of España in NSW’s Central Highlands

Rubén López Mesa has found chef nirvana in a country town 200km west of Sydney. But the Spanish chef’s current good fortune in the Central Highlands town of Orange was born from a series of disasters, starting with the 2009 the Global Financial Crisis forcing him to migrate from Spain