Food & Wine
Food
Red light for fast food labels
Marianne Betts, Nathan Mawby FAST food chains may have to declare the kilojoules in food and include traffic light labelling on menus in an overhaul of labelling laws.
Fresh food is easy to find
By Natascha Mirosch CONSUMERS are being frightened to the freezer cabinet with stories of fruit and vegetable shortages and price hikes according to wholesalers at the Brisbane Markets.
A good African grilling
Margie Fraser AFRICAN spicing and grills feature at Mulu Char, a recent addition to the dining scene on the Sunshine Coast.
A man and his lamb
Simon Wilkinson AS an Australian kid raised on the family farm, Matt Moran has always had a soft spot for lamb.
Would you like flies with your Bug Mac?
From correspondents in Wageningen, Netherlands INSECTS will invade Western menus as the price of meat skyrockets. If, that is, we can get past the "fear factor".
Community dining to mark 2011
Margie Fraser IT is a time for reflection on where we've come from and what might be ahead on the hospitality scene.
Wine
Beer has a hint of orange
Mike Gribble HAHN White is a neat aside for a commercial brewer; designed in Sydney with Belgian leanings and made in Adelaide for the nation.
This beer is a hard hitter
Mike Gribble IF any time is right for a hard-hitter, the time is nigh in Queensland.
Beer, the Italian way
Mike Gribble BREWED outside Milan, Birra Moretti comes across like the archetypal grease for Italian culture's wheel.
Cocktails are back in vogue
Fiona Donnelly BRISBANE is acknowledged as a great breeding ground for bartenders, regularly hauling in more than our fair share of awards in national competitions.
French for fancy
Mike Gribble MAKING a festive splash can be as easy as a gesture embraced by royalty 325 years ago. Except now, it's affordable to all.
Drinkers 'exploited' by low-carb beer myth
By Danny Rose LOW-carbohydrate beer no healthier than full-strength beer and won't keep the kilos off.
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