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Monica Trapaga returns with some home cooking

You might remember her from Better Homes & Gardens and almost everyone remembers Monica Trápaga from her years on ABC’s Playschool. In the five years since she last appeared on Australian television, Monica Trápaga has been busy raising kids, recording Jazz CD’s and writing a cookbook, inspired by her daughter Lil. When Lil, now aged…Read More


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Book Review: Buon Ricordo – How to Make Your Home a Great Restaurant

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It’s probably a no brainer that if you’re going to make your home into a great restaurant, you’d be heavily influenced by the type of cuisine that epitomises the very core of family-based cooking – that time-honoured, community-driven affair that is Italian fare. In this beautiful new book, authors Armando Percuoco and David Dale indeed…Read More


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One Mum’s Solution to Less Cooking and Cheaper Grocery Bills

The self-publishing success story of 2008 – ‘Table Tucker’ by Penina Petersen – has been re-released by Hatchette Australia. Table Tucker is the budget cookbook where recipes and shopping lists work together to produce an easy to follow program that promises to change the way you shop, cook, eat and live. The author of Table…Read More


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Cookbook Review: Little Vietnam by Nhut Huynh

I can still remember the moment I slid my teeth into my very first Vietnamese rice paper roll. I can feel the soft, dry, sticky exterior on my lips and tongue. I can feel the slight give of the sheet as my teeth enter the interior of the roll, and the tang of the fragrant…Read More


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