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Melbourne food writer Pat Churchill on food, wine, vintage cookbooks, kitchen equipment, recipes, historical tales, this and that.


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  • Cooking Down Under http://cookingdownunder.com/blog

    Food writer Pat Churchill in Melbourne writes about food, wine, vintage cookbooks, tales from the past, recipes, kitchen equipment, this and that. Dip in!

LATEST ARTICLES ( 48 )

  • Preserve Us

    Preserve

    One of the casualties of my shift to Australia was my preserving pan. There was always some discussion in the family as to whose preserving pan it actually was. Read more

    Posted on 11 January 2011 FOOD & DRINK
  • Baking a Difference

    Baking Difference

    Bite-sized Christmas mince pies I’ve just spent a long hard day at the coal face getting some of the Christmas baking done. As I had desperately hoped, I had... Read more

    Posted on 15 December 2010 FOOD & DRINK
  • Gruelling Times in the Sickroom

    Gruelling Times Sickroom

    When I was a child I used to pore over Mum’s cookbooks in search of deliciousness. Coloured photos were rare and food styling certainly hadn’t been invented... Read more

    Posted on 12 December 2010 FOOD & DRINK
  • My Kitchen Sin

    Kitchen

    I was helping younger son’s girlfriend with a project the other day when she happened to mention my lads had been airing their grievances about my cooking.... Read more

    Posted on 05 December 2010 FOOD & DRINK
  • The Rise and Rise of Edmonds Cookery Book

    Rise Edmonds Cookery Book

    Afternoon tea staples, pikelets and scones, from my 1950s edition. Most Kiwi homes have a copy of the Edmonds Cookery Book somewhere in the kitchen. Read more

    Posted on 15 November 2010 FOOD & DRINK
  • Spring Carnival – The Rain and Spain

    Spring Carnival Rain Spain

    Afternoon tea staples, pikelets and scones, from my 1950s edition. Most Kiwi homes have a copy of the Edmonds Cookery Book somewhere in the kitchen. Read more

    Posted on 06 November 2010 FOOD & DRINK
  • Making a Meal of Jamie O’s Shoulder

    Making Meal Jamie Shoulder

    I was ambling through South Melbourne Market with The Spouse looking for menu ideas when I noticed one of the butchers had some lovely pink, lean shoulders of... Read more

    Posted on 17 October 2010 FOOD & DRINK
  • Oat Cuisine

    Cuisine

    Goldilocks would have been in her element last Sunday if she’d visited the Scottish Highland village of Carrbridge, host to the annual World Porridge Making... Read more

    Posted on 12 October 2010 FOOD & DRINK