Posted by Robyn Lee, August 17, 2008 at 11:00 AM
According to Dr. George Wilson of the Australian Wildlife Services, we should switch from eating beef to kangaroos to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Unlike cows and sheep, who produce harmful methane gas, kangaroos produce almost no methane gas. They also have cleaner poop and produce lean, free-range meat!
But what does kangaroo tastes like? "It tastes excellent, not unlike venison—only a different flavour," says Dr. Wilson. If you've eaten kangaroo before, what do you think of it?
Posted by Emily Koh, June 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Perhaps more known for his expletive-laced tirades more than he is for his restaurants, Gordon Ramsay is now facing an inquiry from the Australian Senate "for filling the television with an astounding volume of foul language":
The Australian Senate inquiry was prompted by wide protests against Mr. Ramsay’s coarse vocabulary, which is not bleeped out on Australian television because the show is broadcast after 8:30 p.m. Viewers pummeled the station with complaints anyway, the Catholic Church wanted the show dropped, and several senators, as The Telegraph of Britain delicately put it, “were outraged by the British chef’s turn of phrase.”
The inquiry was prompted after Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi saw an episode of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and was horrified by the number of times Ramsay spewed "the F word" in a single episode (read: 80 times in 40 minutes)—"And I'm not referring to fondue," he added.
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Posted by Zach Brooks, May 14, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Add beets, and you have got an Aussie Burger.
Is there anything greater than the breakfast burger? I love a decent burger, and if you top it with an over easy egg, something magical happens. And that magic is called egg yolk, covering your burger in gooey goodness. Last week I sampled the breakfast burger from Goodburger (a slightly upscale, NYC burger chain) along with some co-workers, one of whom remarked, "Add some beets to this, and you've got an Aussie Burger." Come again? Beets? Now that sounds like something I could get into.
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Posted by Robyn Lee, March 24, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Who needs a thermometer when you have a molten ice cream truck? By that point you don't need an exact reading; it's simply "too damn hot."
This sculpture by Orest Keywan in Australia won the artist the $30,000 Sulpture by the Sea prize in 2006. [via The Last Appetite]
Posted by Adam Kuban, July 30, 2007 at 4:45 PM
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.
Posted by Adam Kuban, April 5, 2007 at 2:45 PM
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!
Posted by Nathalie Jordi, January 26, 2007 at 11:22 AM
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."
Posted by Nathalie Jordi, January 23, 2007 at 5:32 PM
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.
