An early edition so you can enjoy some of the stories in Helen Greenwood’s contribution
YEAR IN EATER 2014 . The Year's 15 Best Longform Food Stories
Courtesy of Helen Greenwood, this didn’t quite make it into the NYE edition, but as all of you are like the rest of Australia no doubt still on summer hols – happy reading J
And thanks Helen for putting me on to another site to indulge myself at/on/with.
Chris Crowley’s story of Denise Chavez is a great slapdown for the badboy chefs of the food world. Lance Richardson’s piece should not be read in the dark. John Reed’s is darkly humorous, not really a food story I guess in the same was as Arsenic and Old Lace wasn’t a food film. Romig’s is a fascinating portrait of an Indian restaurant entrepreneur, found of the Saravana Bhavan chain in Chennai and now in many cities where Southern Indian communities have been established, with one in Parramatta listed on the website which I haven’t visited, and clearly not related to the Hotel Saravana Bhavan in Croydon, which had sad to say taken a turn for the worse.
http://www.eater.com/2014/12/19/7422149/2014-best-longform-food-stories
Kanga pies
‘We’re two adventurous mates with a passion for food and love of travel. Back in 2010, we both lived in Australia and discovered the deliciousness that is an Aussie meat pie. It was the perfect setting: Sun, sand, beach… and pies! Quickly adapting to the land down under, we found it very convenient to grab a pie after a surf, or after the bar. Soon, we were like the locals stopping at the local bakeshop for a takeaway lunch pie.’
A Sri Lankan foodie mate of mine in Toronto (Canada not NSW) tells me she loves the pies from here. The range is quirky and a couple of pics are a turn off but ‘Go you good things!’ say I.
The Vintage Menu Collector: 25,000 Restaurants by One Woman
“Her principal method of acquisition was to write to every restaurant she could think of, soliciting menus. When letters failed, she often marched into a restaurant and pleaded her case in person. She also placed advertisements in trade publications like The Caterer and The Hotel Gazette, but just as often, published news of her collection prompted outright contributions of specimens from around the world.”
I guess I still have time to start my collection J
http://www.messynessychic.com/2015/01/02/the-vintage-menu-collector-25000-restaurants-one-woman/
The question that won't die: is the meat pie Australia's national dish?
‘The official AFC Asian Cup Facebook page seems to have decided a question which has agonised Australians for years by declaring the meat pie our national dish.
The page has put together the “national dishes” of the countries participating. Snuggled among machboos for Kuwait and sushi for Japan is the meat pie for Australia.’
The discussion thread is a hoot, like all those who leapt to defend Australia (kangaroo and emu) as not being the only country to eat its national emblems, examples contra being France (poultry) and Wales (leeks) I know Wales isn’t a country but you get the point), and the one who suggested Australia’s national dish is Kylie Minogue.
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