Ah, piggsy…
The Empress explores her passion for pig once again, in this week’s 3-of-a-kind restaurant column in Good Living. Pork hock and knuckle – French, Asian & Polish. Mmmm.
View ArticleFishy business
The Empress Clifford-Smith turns her attention to small and salty fish in her column this week – and oh my, how good does that little sardine number from the Burlington look? You will find Steph’s Good...
View ArticleBeer o’clock for Steph
After an annoying absence in their online content last week, happily the SMH has posted the Empress’s 3-of-a-kind column again this week. This week she’s got her beer goggles on. Specifically, to...
View ArticleOriental Empress gets her pot hot
The online bods at SMH like to keep things lively in terms of the Empress’s weekly column (now it’s there, now it isn’t. Happily this week Steph is there in full living colour with a spot on Chinese...
View ArticleLove that lasagne
I have always loved a good lasagne myself – but a really good one is hard to find, no? Not for the Empress though – she winkles out three excellent versions of lasagne in this big wide city in her SMH...
View ArticleSay cheese (cake)
This week the Empress’s Good Living column discusses the only dessert apart from chocolate that I am officially in love with – cheesecake: Think cheesecake and most of us have an image of the high...
View ArticleEager for Uighur
This week’s column from the Empress in Good Living is a beauty, and extra fun for us to read because we were crash test dummies for one of these Chinese muslim restaurants with her – the Western Orient...
View ArticleA bit on the side: roast cauli & chickpea salad
The other day, with a whole heap of folks coming to dinner, I had one of those crises of confidence in which you are suddenly convinced there won’t be enough food. In our case this is almost always...
View ArticleHow to make a vegetarian smile, pt I
Earlier this year I happened to be travelling for a week in the company of two vegetarians, and was shocked by the severely limited options they had in restaurants. In South Australia, a state famed...
View ArticleUniversal admiration
A Love & Hunger dinner at Universal Restaurant One of the cool things about writing books is that through them you get to meet some fantastically interesting people – and I am so excited that...
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