Ellie's Blog

Thursday, 2 June 2016

It seemed like a great idea at the time: eat differently and shed some kilos in the process. And could I be the Heston Blumenthal of fabulous liquid cuisine?

from
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/80700807/Social-experiment-A-week-without-solid-food

OPINION: All it took was a coffee served in three beakers to send the internet into a frenzy (one beaker contains espresso, the second water and the third warm milk).

The fallout followed an image being posted to social media by writer Jamila Rizvi, featuring a standard flat white from an unnamed cafe, presented in three glass beakers on a wooden paddle. "This must stop, dear Melbourne," she wrote. 'This must stop."

from
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/80692315/Hipster-coffee-is-an-easy-target

The manager of a Melbourne cafe at the centre of a social-media storm in a coffee cup says its controversial "deconstructed" brew was aimed at the city's notorious coffee snobs, not hipsters.

from
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/80687961/Deconstucted-coffee-Its-for-snobs-not-hipsters

An Auckland food court favoured by All Blacks and budget diners is set to close for good, despite a last-ditch effort to save it from demolition.

from
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/80657751/Aucklands-Mercury-Plaza-on-the-chopping-block-ahead-of-new-station-build

Winery workers have been swapping lab coats for gardening gloves as part of efforts to give back to the community.

from
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/80658404/Pernod-Ricard-Marlborough-workers-get-their-hands-dirty-for-a-good-cause

It's Bluff Oyster season, here's where you need to go to enjoy the best of the southern delicacy in Auckland.

from
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/80562705/Five-of-the-best-places-to-get-Bluff-oysters-in-Auckland