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Victorian Food Safety Convictions Registar 2014

These are details of 2014 convictions and offences under the Victorian Food Act 1984 in accordance with section 53D of the Food Act, from the records of...

Vegetarian restaurateur did not want to kill cockroaches on moral grounds

The owner of a popular Dickson vegetarian restaurant was morally opposed to wiping out a cockroach infestation because it would have involved "killing...

Immigrants open food world

In the 1960s, three events lit the fuse for the changes that exploded 50 years later into the frenetic food culture of today. Australia's stifling liquor...

Zilzie couple off on Australian pub crawl adventure

Adventures come in many forms and for Zilzie couple Doug and Susi Blair it could arguably be one of Australia's longest pub crawls. They will soon set...

$2.8 billion float of food and beverage company to capitalise on growing demand in China

The former chairman of Santos, Stephen Gerlach, and the current chairman of $2.8 billion financial services group IOOF Holdings, Roger Sexton, are preparing...

New study reveals how you should stack your dishwasher

Instead of making our lives easier the dishwasher, and how to stack it, can drive a domestic wedge between couple and housemates. Should the cutlery face...

Check it out: Hotel Kurrajong, Canberra

THE federal capital’s re-energised accommodation inventory has been given a further boost with the reopening of the historic Hotel Kurrajong, situated...

Sepia chef Martin Benn gives us food for thought

IT’S odd to discover how little you actually know about someone you’ve met many times. Such is the often-superficial nature of relationships that,...

REVIEW Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience

THEATREFaulty Towers: The Dining Experience★★★★½Rigby's Bar and Bistro, St George's TerraceREVIEW Kaitlin Shawcross You may have never been envious...

Kappo, Melbourne: John Lethlean’s restaurant review

THERE are chefs worth following, and goodness knows they rarely stay in one place for long. And there are restaurateurs worth following, too. While the...