Food reviews

Meat the farmer

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Neil Prentice farms wagyu cattle, the Japanese breed famed for their interlaced muscular fat. The only trouble with wagyu is that they need to be kept in feedlots for nearly two years to obtain the sort of fat the Japanese love. Prentice, however, sees feedlotting as unethical.

Food · Health · Iku Wholefood

Slow food to go

Thursday, 19 August 2010

All of the food for the Iku Wholefoods stores is prepared fresh daily from over 200 fresh, local, seasonal, organic and biodynamic ingredients at the central kitchen.

Food · Health

Euro chic with soul

Monday, 9 August 2010

The food isn't the only environmental consideration at the franchise Le Pain Quotidien; this patisserie uses energy-efficient lighting, eco cleaning products and minimal packaging.

Food · Biodynamic

Aye carumba Alcheringa

Friday, 3 July 2009

The Peterson family make and sell a scrumptious biodynamic milk. They keep a little bit aside to make their brie- and camembert-style Alcheringa cheeses.

Food

Hot-smoked baby, yeah!

Monday, 29 June 2009

41 South Hot-Smoked Baby Salmon is from a Tasmanian fish farm where water returns to the stream cleaner than when it came, via an artificial wetland.

Food · Health · Biodynamic

It's spelt pasta

Friday, 26 June 2009

Powlett Hill Pasta is biodynamic, easy to digest, has a lovely earthy nutty flavour and a rough surface that helps hold pasta sauce.

Food · Society · Fair trade · Organic

Universal Village Organic Ceylon Black Tea

Conscious ceylon cuppa

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

The Universal Village Organic Ceylon tea is Fairtrade, packaged in unbleached, formaldehyde-free tea bags and it produces a deep copper-coloured and delicately flavoured tea

Food · Cooking