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September 2014

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    Koloocheh (Persian Walnut and Date Cookies)

    Buttery Persian cookies are filled with a walnut and date filling.

    My first introduction to Persian food came in the shape of Koloocheh – flaky, buttery cookies stuffed with a sweet walnut and date filling. These cookies were instantly addictive, and my local Persian grocery proceeded to not stock these cookies anymore, pushing me into a Koloocheh-void madness.

    So I needed to make my own.

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  • A salad of black rice and pearl cous cous, served with a roasted garlic and tahini dressing, greek yoghurt, baby beetroot and smoked almonds. Here, it's served on a blue-rimmed tin plate and laid next to a fork and spoon, on a blue tea towel.
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    Grain Salad

    I think salads can often be maligned as a boring, bitter, only-eat-if-you-got-no-other-option type of dish. And sometimes, salads are the forgotten cousin, thrown into a menu as a side so that some people can…

  • Clockwise from top left: American Sandwich, spinach and feta poppers, salsa dip, garlic yoghurt drink, fries and jalapeño cheese poppers in the centre.
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    Just Falafel, Central Station

    Falafels can often be left as an afterthought. It’s that dish that people serve up when the thought, “oh, I forgot about the vegetarians” comes up. But falafels are can be delicious morsels in…

  • Marinated chicken hearts are alternately skewered with bacon pieces, then grilled and basted with the marinade.
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    Chicken Heart Skewers

    In trying to make a cuban sandwich the other week, I dropped by my local butcher to buy some pork shoulder. While I was there, I noticed that they had chicken hearts on special,…

  • Elvis burger with chips, a cup of coffee, and a pepper grinder on a honeycomb tiled table.
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    Brewtown Newtown, Newtown, Sydney

    Often in romance we can mistake the idea of love for what love actually is, and I think that in food, we can sometimes love the idea of a dish perhaps a bit more…

  • Pieces of cooked duck is mixed in with pickled turnip and carrot, and served with a prawn cracker in this entree from Bay Tinh
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    Bay Tinh, Marrickville

    Vietnamese food is a whole new playground of food to me – although I’m from Singapore, I’ve always had so much more exposure to Japanese and Thai food that Vietnamese food has always slipped…

  • A tub of bright pink taramasalata, a salted cod roe dip full creamy with garlic and lemon.
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    Test Kitchen: Taramasalata

    So we all know that I have this habit of buying interesting ingredients before I know what I’m going to do with them – squid ink being one of them – and now I’ve…

  • Fried chicken, served with fresh lemon and Japanese mayonnaise.
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    Biru Biru, Darlinghurst, Sydney

    I was introduced to Japanese food at a very young age. My parents appreciate the finer foods in life, and sashimi and tempura was considered quite the treat when I was little. We would…

  • Korean style kimchi dumplings are steamed and served with a side of soy, pickled radish, and freshly marinated cabbage.
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    The Mandoo, Eastwood

    I think I’ve become one of those Asian people who rove around constantly looking for more Asian food. And you know what? I’m going to own that. If there was a medical condition, I…