Food on Friday
On Fridays, Bush Telegraph explores the fascinating world of food, from the way we grow it to the final pleasure of eating, and all the delicious bits in between. We get out teeth into questions about why we eat what we do, how our food industries are thriving and surviving and of course, have fun meeting the faces behind the delights that end up in our shopping baskets.
Food on Friday - Christmas feast
Friday, December 19, 2008
Less than a week to go until Christmas and many of us are now planning what we'll eat on the big day.
Food On Friday - Cherries
Friday, December 12, 2008
'Tis definitely the season to eat cherries - but did you also know it was the season to start exporting those same cherries to Japan?
Food On Friday - Christmas Ham
Friday, December 5, 2008
Do you feel a bit stressed in the build up to Christmas? Well spare a thought for smallgoods maker Andrew Vourvahakis.
Food on Friday-bananas
Friday, November 28, 2008
It's calculated that every year each Australian will consume 13 kilos of bananas.
Food on Friday- freekeh
Friday, November 21, 2008
Toni Lutfi came up with a business idea while dining with the Prince of Jordan more than a decade ago.
Food on Friday-recession era food
Friday, November 14, 2008
You can't open a newspaper or switch on the news these days without being greeted with dire predictions for the world economy- so what should we be cooking in these lean economic times?
Food on Friday-the humble beetroot
Friday, November 7, 2008
We are all familiar with the kind of beetroot you can buy in the supermarket, but how many of us have eaten a white, orange or even striped beetroot, instead of the red variety?
Food on Friday-farming rabbits
Friday, October 31, 2008
When you head to the butcher how many of you have rabbit on your shopping list or would even know how to cook it if you did?
Food on Friday - Hazelnuts
Friday, October 17, 2008
This weekend, In the mountains east of Melbourne delegates are gathering from all round the country for the annual conference of hazelnut growers.
Making cheese at home - Food on Friday
Friday, September 26, 2008
Are you a bit of a cheese-lover? Australians in general have a love affair with cheese; we consume an average of just under twelve kilograms a year.
Food on Friday - Cat food a fishy business
Friday, September 19, 2008
Food on Friday - Dexter, the perfect 'house cow'
Friday, September 12, 2008
They're small, originated in Ireland and although once on the brink of extinction, are experiencing a surge in popularity among Australian treechangers on small acreage.
Fresh herb growing - Food on Friday
Friday, September 5, 2008
You've probably seen those television cooking shows where a celebrity chef - like Nigella or Jamie - shows you how to whip up a gourmet meal.
Food On Friday - Macadamia Pesto
Friday, August 29, 2008
Food on Friday- meat that makes you squeamish
Friday, August 22, 2008
Remember the ads trying to sell pork as "the other white meat"? Well there is a different white meat out there.
Food on Friday- Tetra-packed wine
Friday, August 8, 2008
First there was no cork in the wine bottle; and now there's no bottle.
Food on Friday- the iconic meat pie
Friday, August 1, 2008
The meat pie, that iconic Australian meal, started out as a 'coffin'.
Food on Friday - Apple cider to make a comeback
Monday, July 28, 2008
It was big in Europe thousands of years ago - but cider is about to become trendy all over again.
Food on Friday - Apple cider to make a comeback
Friday, July 25, 2008
It was big in Europe thousands of years ago - but cider is about to become trendy all over again.
Food on Friday- nuts about nuts
Friday, July 18, 2008
The nutritional benefits of nuts is proving to be a boon for the industry as people increasingly turn to nuts for their source of protein.
Food on Friday- cheap vegetable prices
Friday, July 4, 2008
What are you planning to make for dinner tonight? A nice minestrone? Baked vegetables? Frittata?
Food on Friday - Should shark fishing be stopped?
Friday, June 27, 2008
What's on your dinner table tonight? Is Friday night at your place "fish and chip night"? If you do take part in that great tradition there's a good chance you may be tucking into some shark.
Food on Friday - Threat to honey industry from tiny mite
Friday, June 20, 2008
Here's a trivia question for you: what has eight legs, is smaller than a pinhead, and can cause billions of dollars of damage to rural industries?
Food on Friday- the winter garden
Friday, June 13, 2008
As the cost of food keeps rising, many people are looking to their own backyard garden to take the edge off their weekly costs.
Food on Friday: chicken meat more popular than ever
Friday, June 6, 2008
Chicken meat has overtaken beef as the most popular meat for Australian consumers.
Food on Friday - The year of the spud
Friday, May 23, 2008
Yes, believe it or not, 2008 is the year of the humble spud. Although we may only find about four types of potato in the local supermarket there are up to 100 varieties grown in Australia and while some are good for mashing, others are best roasted, turned into gnocci or even potato ice-cream!
Booktown outside broadcast
Friday, May 2, 2008
Food on Friday - ANZAC biscuits
Friday, April 25, 2008
Today in Food on Friday we share an ANZAC biscuit.
Food on Friday - apples and antioxidants
Friday, April 11, 2008
Antioxidants are known as nature's disease fighters - it's suggested they may reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, improve your brain function and even give you better eyesight.
Food on Friday- 'kopi luwak'
Friday, March 28, 2008
An Australian expatriate has re-discovered an old Dutch coffee plantation in the Sumatran highlands and is now producing 'kopi luwak'- a rare variety of coffee that costs upwards of $1000 a kilo.
Food on Friday - Free Range Chicken
Friday, March 14, 2008
What do you think of when you hear the phrase "free range chicken"?
Food on Friday - Aussie wasabi
Friday, February 29, 2008
It's hot and green - and is guaranteed to clean your sinuses, I'm talking about the very potent green vegetable wasabi.
Food on Friday - Urban aquaponics
Friday, February 15, 2008
We've talked a lot in Food On Friday about how we all need to tackle the issue of food miles - that's the long journey our food takes before it gets to our table, and the big carbon emissions that creates.
Food on Friday - Growing commercial cocoa - an Australian first
Friday, February 8, 2008
It's been known for centuries as an aphrodisiac, a stimulant, and nowadays as an anti-oxidant - no wonder the world loves chocolate so much.
Food on Friday: Eating clones meat
Friday, February 1, 2008
The Food and Drug administration in the United States has just approved meat and milk products from cloned animals and their offspring for human consumption. So will this put pressure on Australian authorities to follow suit?
Food on friday - healthy food, fashion or science
Friday, December 14, 2007
Eating healthy is becoming as increasingly difficult thing to do. Take a product like soy for example.
Food on friday - Food at Bonegilla
Friday, December 7, 2007
The food at Bonegilla was perhaps the first real culture shock for many of the migrants.
Wine Writing - Food on friday
Friday, November 30, 2007
Wine writing is often seen as an exclusive profession, filled with jargon, open only to the snobbiest of wine critics, but this is changing as wine is now being enjoyed by more people and used at more occasions.
Come and get it
Friday, November 16, 2007
Next time you go bush and you are preparing a menu of packet mix macaroni cheese or mountain bread and salami, stop! Why not consider duck noodle salad, Camp oven Osso Buco or a Camel Korma?
Honey Mead - Food On Friday
Friday, November 9, 2007
On the way from Denmark to Manjimup in southern WA, Bush Telegraph saw a sign saying "icecreamery and meadery", so of course we had to stop.
Cooking with local Busselton foods.
Friday, November 2, 2007
Sous chef, Carlos Richards, takes us on a tour of his kitchen specialising in locally sourced foods.
Olive industry holds 3rd annual Expo - Food on friday
Friday, October 26, 2007
Amid the gloom of rural Australia, there is at least one industry that seems to be going from strength to strength. The Australian olive oil industry is producing more oil than ever before, and local olive oils are starting to knock foreign competitors off the grocery shelf.
Food Plants international - Food on Friday
Friday, October 19, 2007
Food Plants International is an organisation set up to research and document edible plants from around the world to overcome hunger and malnutrition especially in children.
The virtues of verjuice - Food on Friday
Friday, October 12, 2007
From the humble must of discarded wine grapes comes two magical ingredients, vinegar and verjuice. Both have been around since bibical times but verjuice is only recently being accepted in Australian kitchens
Boabs in the Kimberley: Food on Friday
Friday, September 21, 2007
If you've travelled into the tropics, you probably remember seeing your first boab tree.
Food on Friday: Fried Eggplant Salad
Friday, September 14, 2007
How many of us have been able to return to the place we grew up, to pursue the passions that enthralled us as a child? In a special onsite version of Food On Friday; Sheila Dixon took Michael Mackenzie on a tour of her 21 year old vegetable garden which has produced enough food to sustain not only herself, but a network of friends and neighbours throughout the district.
Food on Friday - Katherine Community Kitchen
Friday, September 7, 2007
A group of dedicated Katherine business people and residents are in the process of creating a community kitchen in the Northern Territory
Wine On The Wireless - Food On Friday
Friday, August 31, 2007
After 18 months, Bush Telegraph's Wine on the Wireless project has reached the final step. The wine is bottled and ready for sale. Rob Geddes, master of wine had completed a tasting and all the players gathered for a final hurrah.
Food on Friday - Camel
Friday, August 24, 2007
Camel meat is starting to make its presence felt on the Australian plate
Food on Friday - Rock lobster congress taste-off
Friday, August 17, 2007
The fifth national rock lobster congress wraps up in Cairns tonight with a rock lobster taste-off.
Food on Friday - Food Miles
Friday, August 10, 2007
We're all trying to try to cut back on our greenhouse gas emissions - but do you know you can make a difference in the supermarket aisle? Because every product you choose has been produced and delivered to the retail shelf, by a process that burns up fossil fuels - and some food is far worse in this regard than others.
Food on Friday: The unique qualities of avocados
Friday, August 3, 2007
European sailors working on old windjammers in the 1700s would often try and improve the taste of stale bread with a little spread of midshipman's butter.
Food on Friday: Istanbul food workshop
Friday, July 27, 2007
When I travelled to Turkey last June one of the things that filled me excitement and expectation was the food. I soon learnt that "Turkish cuisine" draws on a vast history and geography making it far more complex than I imagined.
Food on Friday: Offal
Friday, July 20, 2007
Who's up for some sweetbread?
Food on Friday - blue swimmer crabs
Friday, July 13, 2007
Tucking into a plate of seafood can be a messy business, particularly when you've ordered a plate of crabs.
One Continuous Picnic- Food on Friday
Friday, July 6, 2007
What we eat, how we eat and what this says about Australian culture and history is the focus of Food on Friday today.
Food on Friday - Australian Sake
Friday, June 29, 2007
Sake probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think about exports we send to Japan, but that's largely what the industry in Australia caters for. It's still a small industry, but the Japanese value Australian made Sake for the purity and quality of our rice and water.
The Art of Apple Branding - Food on Friday
Friday, June 22, 2007
The Art of Apple Branding documents the history of the apple industry and its contribution to the wealth of our country.
Food on Friday - Starting from scratch
Friday, June 15, 2007
How do you switch from an office tower to digging fence posts or feeding cattle? How do you grow and harvest a crop when your only previous experience of life on the land is a weekend drive through the countryside?
Black truffle risotto
Friday, June 8, 2007
Truffles are one of the most expensive foods on Earth. The most expensive truffle sold for almost $200,000 last year. It weighed 1.5 kilograms!
Capsicum and Bunya nut relish - Food on Friday
Friday, June 1, 2007
It's the size of a basketball, and chances are it would kill you if it fell on your head. But it's also a food source with a fascinating history!
For the sweet mix - Food on Friday
Friday, May 25, 2007
Have you ever heard of squab? Perhaps you haven't, but I bet you've heard of pigeon. Well guess what - they're the same thing!
Nourishing traditions - Food on Friday
Friday, May 18, 2007
Welcome to Food on Friday, and today we are going to explore the teachings of a dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, USA, who died 60 years ago.
Traditional Grains - Food on Friday
Friday, May 11, 2007
Today we hear about traditional grains like rye and spelt- some have been found in Egyptian tombs, and others will be ground in old mills that haven't been active for almost a century.
The French way with pork - Food on Friday
Friday, May 4, 2007
Did you know that pork in the world's most popular meat? Forty per cent of all meat consumed worldwide is pork and Australia reflects these trends too, with growth in pork sales being the fastest for any meat.
Organic Herbs - Food on Friday
Friday, April 27, 2007
Have you ever wanted to grow your own organic food but got a bit overwhelmed at the idea of digging and weeding and watering and pest control?
Bush tucker gardens - Food on Friday
Friday, April 20, 2007
Indigenous Australian food, or bush tucker, is offering a unique range of flavours and textures for Australian diners. Our next two guests are here to discuss how you can grow your own bush tucker in your kitchen garden, and how to eat it.
Chestnuts - Food on Friday
Friday, April 13, 2007
The Australian chestnut season is now well under way.
Food on Friday - Easter in the canefields
Friday, April 6, 2007
We're visiting the kitchens of Ingham in far North Queensland where frantic preparations are well under way for Easter - a major festival in Australia's Italian and Greek communities.
Industrial Farming
Friday, March 30, 2007
Remember the film Babe - where the little pig lived in a barn with all his animal mates on a small farm in a tranquil rural setting?
Food Security
Friday, March 23, 2007
For Food on Friday today we're looking at the issue of "food security". Have we become so used to prolific quantities and varieties of food on supermarket shelves - that we've forgotten about where and how our food is produced?
Wine on the Wireless: Bottling
Friday, March 16, 2007
It's time again to check our Wine on the Wireless project, and we're getting toward the end of the process now!
The unfortunate travels of William the apple
Friday, March 9, 2007
Fresh food is something city dwellers take for granted. If the food is a bit off, you can always go to another shop. But there aren't too many alternatives in remote Australia.
Organic cheese production - Food on Friday
Friday, March 2, 2007
Carla Meurs and Ann-Marie Monda have established an organically certified goatherd and farm cheese production.
Dried dragon fruit - Food on Friday
Friday, February 23, 2007
As part of Bush Telegraph's Food on Friday segment, we look at dried dragonfruit, which is ripe for the picking in the Northern Territory as we speak.
Wine Label winner - Food on Friday
Friday, February 16, 2007
A unique braille label has won Bush Telegraph's Wine on the Wireless Orange Red Shiraz label competition.
