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Vietnamese cuisine has long been a favourite of mine.  Crisp and clean flavours often punctuated by selective use of spice, it’s food that makes you feel good when you eat it.  I certainly felt good after enjoying the signature dishes Ms Vy presented in her Melbourne Food and Wine Festival dinner at Dandelion.  Trinh Diem [...]

The onset of cold weather brings about a number of changes.  We swap sandals for boots,  sunglasses for scarves and in the case of what to have for lunch, salad for soup. It was a quintessential autumn day in Melbourne, sunny and bright but with a distinct chill in the air and The Beloved and [...]

Theme:  Vietnamese Cookbook: Secrets of the Red Lantern by Pauline Nguyen When I go out for Vietnamese, I never have just one dish.  I don’t think anyone does.  So, for this week’s theme, the only logical thing (to my warped way of thinking) was to not make one dish, but to make what I would [...]