Grab Your Diary

THURSDAY 30 JUNE 2005End of Month Eggs on Toast Extravaganza #7Cook a goog and send it to Jeanne. And it looks like this month's theme is "short dramatic works", or as Jeanne suggests, "One flew over the chicken's nest. Layer Cake. Cluck back in anger."Does My Blog Look Good in This #7The foodporniest winners are announced by Meg today at I Heart BaconFRIDAY 1 JULY 2005Omnivoribus Australia NEW!

Snapped: Water boy

Snapped at the Primo Italiano Festival, 5 June 2005A poignant appreciation for nature's most precious resource, especially given Australia's current drought crisis and Sydney's precariously low dam levels.

Orange Grove Markets safe for now

After a tense week of uncertainty, it appears that the organic food stalls at the popular Orange Grove Markets are safe to continue trading. Reports in the Sunday papers of 19 June 2005 indicated that the booming 100-stall market contravened the original Development Application for 60 stalls only, and that the food stalls (whose leases expire at the end of June) would be forced to relocate to

Primo Italiano, Stanley Street Festival

In an barely concealed jibe at Sydney's "other" Little Italy, Leichhardt, the recent Primo Italiano festival attempted to adamantly reinforce the reputation of East Sydney's Stanley Street as Sydney's "first" Little Italy. It was in Stanley Street where Italian immigrants first began to cluster socially, gradually building more and more delicatessens, restaurants, bars and cardhouses until the

IMBB #16: Tortilla Espanola

Tortilla Espanola. You may as well substitute the word tapas, just as yum cha = the ubiquitous har gow.Soft cooked potato flavoured sweetly with onions and set by a soothing blanket of egg. How can you not be transported to a lazy afternoon in sun-drenched Seville with every mouthful?So when eggs were set as the key ingredient for Is My Blog Burning #16, the flamenco had already begun.Tortilla

Upcoming events

FRIDAY 24 JUNE 2005Is My Blog Burning #15: EggsGet your eggs-quisite works of art to Seattle Bon Vivant anytime from Friday 24 June to Sunday 26 June.SATURDAY 25 JUNE 2005Bankstown Bites Food FestivalBankstown City Plaza (near Bankstown train station)10.00am-4.00pmFree one-hour food tours on noodles, tea and Asian, Lebanese and European delights will be conducted on the hour. Book in on the

Nhat Tan, Marrickville

Former home to a strong Greek community, these days Marrickville is home to a melting pot of Greeks, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Chinese and Africans.On Illawarra Road--one of the main shopping streets--Asian groceries, Greek bakeries, bubble tea cafes and Vietnamese restaurants jostle one other for over five blocks.We only had eyes for one thing though: Good pho. We were hungry. And we needed it