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Severe Drought Limiting Fish, Crops in Australia

Aussie chef Justin North checks in with some news on how the ongoing drought in the Land Down Under is affecting the food supply there. Australia is suffering what some are calling its worst drought in 1,000 years, and the impact on our farmers, livestock and produce is catastrophic. Scientists have linked the six-year drought to the changing climate, and the dry spell has been especially hard on the Murray cod’s home, the Murray-Darling river basin in southeastern Australia, which provides 40 percent of the country’s food. Our water is slowly running out, and the effects are being felt by Australian chefs....

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3 Comments | Posted by Adam Kuban, July 30, 2007 at 4:45 PM
Tagged: Australia, drought

Meat Pie Pizza

Down Under, Domino's mixes the classic Australian meat pie with the pizza pie: Until now, the most creative makeovers of the humble meat pie have involved stacking things on top of it. This week Domino's stacked it on something else.The Meat Pie Pizza comes with beef mince, onions, and peas topped with thick pastry and tomato sauce—and it looks about as pretty as a half-gobbled dog's eye. Crikey!...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Adam Kuban, April 5, 2007 at 2:45 PM
Tagged: Australia, fusion pizza, meat pies, pizza

Australia Day

Today's the day, in 1788, that a boatload of English convicts declared Australia theirs, and feasted with "drinking and merriment." Now we call it Australia Day and the Aussies cook up kangaroo and freshwater crayfish known as yabbies. Antipodean blogger What I Cooked Last Night offers up recipes apparently "as easy as falling off a log."...

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Post a Comment | Posted by Nathalie Jordi, January 26, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Tagged: Australia, kangaroo

Hot Dogs Brave Attack Of Meat Pie

I knew the cute pie-man at my neighborhood Tuck Shop wasn't going to stay single for long; according to this article, he's got scads of meat pies at his heels....

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Post a Comment | Posted by Nathalie Jordi, January 23, 2007 at 5:32 PM
Tagged: Australia, meat pie