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Bilson at Table My Favourite Duck
by Tony Bilson
"I often view with evil intent families of ducks walking towards the ponds in Centennial Park."
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Sweet Dreams A letter to Nutri-lame
by Oliver Mol
So we got the cereal. We returned home. My kid sat at the kitchen table and began shovelling the cereal into his mouth. He shovelled one bowl. Then he shovelled another...
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Galluzzo Fruiterers Glebe Point Road’s Famous Family
by John Newton
Out front long time employee Steve Fante is arranging the streetfront display. “The principle,” he tells me, “is to arrange it to feed the eye.”
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Great Wog Boozes of the Inner West Special lemonade, Tia Maria and Black Charlie
by Benito Di Fonzo
What could be more wholesome for a child than to help his father make illegal spirits?
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Lunch with Friends Fratelli Paradiso with Luke Storrier
by Evan Hughes
"The key to a local eatery’s longevity is to be found in the ability of their sommelier and owner to contain their greed; Fratelli hits the mark with only one or two investment-banker-priced wines."
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Bilson at Table Eating the Seasons
by Tony Bilson
A marriage of French and Japanese cuisines.
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Lunch with Friends Bistro Moncur with McLean Edwards
by Evan Hughes
“It is that sort of place, Bistro Moncur, where art dealers, ladies who lunch, colourful lawyers and failed Labor politicians can all convivially share a meal and look down their noses at tedious but ubiquitous real estate agents who seem always to be relegated to Siberia down near the kitchen.”
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Secrets of the Sydney Fish Market The world is your oyster
by John Newton
“Sydney Fish Market is one of the best fish markets in the world... Well, it’s not Tokyo’s Tsukiji, but it’s not bad. Living so close and going so often, I’ve learnt a few of its secrets.”
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4 and 20 Blackbirds Baked in a Pie A recipe to crow about
by John Newton
I remember driving through the bush with my father. He hated crows and every time we saw one, he’d pull over to the side of the road, carefully and quietly pull out the loaded .22 he kept under the seat.
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Tropicana Bob and the Min Min Lights The beating heart of Sydney’s wayward bohemians
by Toby Creswell
For whatever reason The Trop – a hole-in-the-wall with two rooms and indifferent spag bol on offer – took off with the local layabouts and the arty types.
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Down the Hatch The Bourbon Hotel
by Kye M.R. Bleaux-Hall
These days it’s so quiet here that if the wind is in your favour, the cicada buzz of Max’s Village Tattoo will accompany you across the road, all the way to The Bourbon’s doors.
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Bilson at Table The Death of Paul Bocuse
by Tony Bilson
Once Bocuse perfected a dish it remained unchanged on his menu:“If a dish was worthy of three Michelin stars in 1963 it should be worthy of the same accolade in 1993!"
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Down the Hatch Sydney Park Hotel, St Peters
by Kye M.R. Bleaux-Hall
The Sydney Park Hotel is a beautiful pub. Sitting above St Peters Train Station overlooking the Illawarra Line, its location and warm, benevolent spirit somehow magically combine to have you holding a cold schooner before you’ve even stepped off the train and past the screens.
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