Day 7 Enough of all this frivolity there’s work to do. Up early – insomnia again – down for usual brace of flat whites, croissant, melon and the Hail Mary Muesli Bar – tastes so bad you can feel it doing you good. Tempted to a cleansing James Squire IPA but refrained. On to web ...
BLOG, TravelDay 6 Early doors breakfast at the Novotel Barossa Valley Resort before heading off with the Food Tour group to the farmers’ market. Lots of goodies including range of salumi and some amazing high-octane kabanossi, not for the faint-hearted. Also traced the source of the duck we’d eaten the night before. Quality of the fruit ...
BLOGDAY 5 Now we move up a gear. It’s ‘Tipplers on Tour’. The press gang gets split into 2 groups, the wine writers and the food writers. Me, I have a foot in both camps. This week I’m a wino. We meet in the lobby of the Hyacon at 7.50am, some feat considering the scoopage ...
BLOGDAY 3 Up early – can’t seem to sleep beyond 5.15 at the minute, in whatever time zone. Walkabout for massive glass of squeezed fruit juice – orange, pineapple, mango, passion fruit, that will do nicely. Then weakened and nipped into Arcade for 2 x double shot flat whites and a bacon butty. Nice Chinese ...
BLOG, Food, Travel, Wine & DrinkDAY ONE Arrived 6 am amidst a magnificent red, blue and gold sunrise. Worn out from travelling ‘steerage’ across the globe but otherwise I was holding up, only slightly fractured. David Evans, in an Audi courtesy car, collected me and drove me to the Hyatt, now renamed the Intercontinental after a takeover. Hence my confusion ...
BLOG, Food, Travel, Wine & DrinkOriginally published in an edition of Food & Wine Magazine that came out on April 1st. Unfortunately a few people failed to spot the spoof! How To Cook Your Pet In this, the first of a two-part article, omnivore chef Jimmy Har Pang tells you how to broaden the spectrum of your gastro-joy. Jimmy Har ...
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