Browsing Archive: October, 2009

Time for a festival

Posted by Antony Perring on Tuesday, October 20, 2009,

After a very shaky start to the season warm weather and clear skies have finally started to become the norm for us Sydneysiders.

And it's about time too, with festival and barbecues season really kicking into high gear.

This year's Sydney Internationl Food Festival (SIFF) has cranked up the community spirit with many local councils including their annual street fairs and festivals in the SIFF schedule.

Sunday's Summer Hill festival was a real surprise - with this gem of the inner west providing...

The funkiest little bakery in the (inner) west

Posted by Antony Perring on Sunday, October 11, 2009,

It's a real mixed bag of customers at Black Star Pastry, the funkiest little bakery in the inner west.

Older women meeting for a weepy deep and meaningful conversation; a tattooed rockabilly couple with a baby in a pram; a notebook-scribbling student; and a bearded gay couple out walking their rotweillers.
This is Newtown afterall.

Black Star Pastry is at the centre of a small strip of late Victorian era shops just next door to the popular Oscillate Wildly restaurant.

Just out of reach of the ...
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Nose to tail

Posted by Antony Perring on Saturday, October 3, 2009,

Yesterday was a soggy start to the Sydney International Food Festival.

A dozen of Sydney's top chefs convened under the marquees at the Sydney Morning Herald's monthly Growers Market in Pyrmont park as the rain came down sideways and the wind gusted.

UK Chef Fergus Henderson's local colleagues were tasked with each producing a dish along the theme of nose-to-tail, showing an animal the respect of consuming every part of the beast after it is harvested.

As a whole pig slowly rotated on the spit...
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