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Pussy Killers

Pussy Killers

Today Anna attempts to outdo thedirtymexican’s anti-christian rant by pouring a bit of hate on pet lovers Can you believe the domestic pussy is threatening the entire eco-system? And no, this time it’s not about Fluffy sneaking out at night and ripping into the local wildlife. Apparently the average feline’s appetite for premium food products [...]

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Those Crazy Italians: Bresaola di Tonno

Those Crazy Italians: Bresaola di Tonno

For the latest in Italian delicacies we have Anna from Morsels & Musings to school us in the art of…gourmetness.

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Cheap, cheerful and bound to get more crowded – Sydney’s Chinatown

Cheap, cheerful and bound to get more crowded – Sydney’s Chinatown

This is out second post in a short while about Chinatown – but we love it, and we have Anna from Morsels & Musings dishing it out. In Sydney, these three Haymarket hotspots don’t need anymore highlighting. Their already huge fan base is enough to bring you to tears when you’re starving and fighting for [...]

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Stella PSP

I wish I was a Stella Rep

Cam across this little number today – a customised Stella Artois PSP. 50 of these were given to Australian Foster’s sales reps, the Australian distributors of the Stella, to get them excited about the brand. Put together by ad agency Rivet, the PSPs come in hand stitched black velvet drawstring bags and have the Stella [...]

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Lower East Side Tapas Heaven

Lower East Side Tapas Heaven

I’ve arrived. NYNY it’s about time I came back and it’s about time I ate some amazing Mexican food. In Syd, we are gastronomically deprived in the way of decent street latino food, so since arriving in NYC one of my first missions was to get something con yum in mah belleh. Soon enough I [...]

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Upcoming Sydney Food & Gourmet Events

One of our favorite blogs, Grab Your Fork, has recently updated their upcoming food and gourmet events for Sydney. Here’s DEGOURGET’s pick of the bunch. Ferragosto ’08 (Five Dock) Celebrating Italian food and the Five Dock community Sunday 17 August 10am – 4pm Great North Road, Five Dock Fresh food markets at Cook + Phillip [...]

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Miso Udon with Prawns

Super Simple Recipe: Japanese Miso Udon (Noodle Soup) with Prawns

So its still goddamn freezing in sunny old Sydney, sometimes you just don’t want to go out for dinner as you don’t want to brave the unnatural weather. But you DO want to have some nice warming winter food, don’t you? And you don’t want to spend very long making it? Well then – here [...]

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Chocolate Feet

Chocolate Feet

Remember those infomercials in the 80s where you could buy chocolate making sets? Well, this choc mould wasn’t in it but I swear I would have bought it if it was. For real you can eat these. I think. We would probably have to eat it since it would probably melt by December. More chocaholicness [...]

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Timeout: Chinatown

Timeout: Chinatown

The long awaited and recently launched Timeout Sydney features Chinatown in this weeks issue. We equally love Sydney’s Chinatown, and we love how they refer to it as “Sydney’s only truly eastern suburb”. They really captured some great photos in 24hrs in Chinatown And who doesn’t think of food when they think of Chinatown? It’s [...]

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Beer for eels please

Beer for eels please

Marketed for eel lovers in Japan, a new beer has been launched to quench the thirst for the opressively warm Japanese summer. Apparently the beer is very complimentary for the sticky and slightly sweet flavours of the unagi (eel). Translated below is some of the reasoning behind Miyashita’s Sake Brewery’s newest endevour… Unagi is traditionally [...]

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Viva la chicken soup

Viva la chicken soup

I’d say most countries have their variation on chicken soup. For example, Polski’s do the standard, Japanese go ramen style and the Greeks have that lemony rice number… All super yum, BUT, the ultimate on my leaderboard of chicken soups I discovered on a trip to Mexico. Eating this soup (mind you it was swealtering [...]

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