My Melbourne Arts

Taking my seat at Degustation , I couldn’t help but feel like I was about to experience The Menu - albeit with considerably more acrobatics...

I love mushrooms. If there’s a meal with mushrooms in it, chances are I’m ordering it - and demolishing it. But I’ve never really thought ab...

A Kingdom of Mushrooms, Five Senses, Infinite Wonder and You. That's the name of the show, and in this immersive participatory experienc...

Perpetual Stew is a sketch comedy of scenes that play out around food, and while some of these take place at the dinner table, there are ma...

Good dinner scenes in film, TV and theatre are filled with plenty of awkwardness and drama, with a group of people confined to one place and...

If there's one rule to be aware of when going to the Melbourne Fringe Festival, it's to expect the unexpected and open yourself up t...

Forming the artistic portion of her PhD, Pauline Sherlock's Trapped Inside a Fat Old Lady is the auto-ethnographic ruminations of a mid...

Chef Chung is the head chef o f the Happy Dragon Chinese Restaurant in Gisborne where h e spends his days prepa ring his famou s sweet a...

Australia has always had a love for cooking shows including, Ready Steady, Cook , The Great Australian Bake Off , Masterchef and Jamie...

Imagine having a five-course meal with a group of strangers, where you must democratically vote on all the ingredients that will be used. ...

Presented as part of the Big West Festival, filmmaker and photojournalist, Melissa Davis has two short documentaries screening, Dumpster To ...

In Italian culture, family and close friends always enter the house from the back door. The thinking behind this being that the back door l...

When it comes to alcohol, the only thing I drink is gin. Since I came across it at a London bar in 2010, it has become my drink of choice, w...

There are only three beverages that I drink; water, fruit juice (except orange) and gin. That's it. I don't like the taste of win...

The penultimate day...not much to report, had a busy day preparing things for the next challenge, which starts on MONDAY! But more about t...

It's amazing how your diet and food intake can be so much affected by what's going on in your life. When I'm nervous, anxious or...

Mock schnitzel Coming in to the home stretch. For dinner, I have sampled another mock-meat company; Tivall - founded in 1985, is the w...

Breakfast, lunch and dinner? Stayed away from meats, so no fretting there, but it was a terrible day for eating. I was extremely lazy an...

I had quorn mince and pasta for dinner tonight. Was pretty much like mince, the taste wasn't the same - that I can remember - but it was...

Lunch at Crossways So today I went to a Hare Krishna vegetarian cafe in the city, Crossways. Was all you can eat for $5-7 and even thoug...