Category: Location

Footscray Market Opening Hours – Christmas 2011

Another year down, another year where my local market, Footscray Market, fails to build a website. Opening hours for the market over the Christmas/New Year’s period are: Saturday 24 December (Christmas Eve): 7:00am-5:00pm 25-27 December: Closed Wednesday 28 December: 7:00am – 4:00pm Thursday 29 December: 7:00am – 6:00pm Friday 30 December: 7:00am – 7:00pm Saturday… Continue reading Footscray Market Opening Hours – Christmas 2011

The hand painted signs of Cambodia

A Flickr group for Cambodia’s hand-painted sign folk art that I started a few years ago just had its 200th sign added to it. Here they are. If you’ve got any packed away in your archives and you’re a Flickr user, feel free to add them to the pool.

Sausage sizzle or popup charcuterie?

Photo Credit: Wooster Collective I worked in a food truck for a few months in 1996. The truck parked at automotive parts swap meets and out the front of the cow pavilion at the Royal Easter Show. I cooked hundreds of frozen hamburgers, industrial soy-beef patties defrosting on the grill for families with matching mullets… Continue reading Sausage sizzle or popup charcuterie?

Google buys Zagat, but no coverage south of the Equator

Google has bought gastronomic capsule-review bible, Zagat. From the Google blog: So, today, I’m thrilled that Google has acquired Zagat. Moving forward, Zagat will be a cornerstone of our local offering—delighting people with their impressive array of reviews, ratings and insights, while enabling people everywhere to find extraordinary (and ordinary) experiences around the corner and… Continue reading Google buys Zagat, but no coverage south of the Equator

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