Most people would not be happy to work on their day off but I was excited.

Not even the thought of getting soaked in rain dampened my spirits.

And the reason behind my excitement? The Taste of Sydney 2010 Festival - a festival that showcases some of the best international and national food, alcohol and cookbooks.

Earlier this year, I wrote a blog about new years resolutions and why I thought, based on research, Australians would struggle to keep them, especially when it came to food and health.

Three months later, new research has found that more than two-thirds of Australians who made resolutions to eat better food and reduce or completely cut out unhealthy snacks failed to keep their New Years promise.

On May 30, 2008, like many others, one of Australia's former Italian migrants passed away from a rare form of cancer, mesothelioma - also known as asb...

If you walk while eating, not only will you lose weight because you are moving, but you also tend to eat less because your brain gets pre-occupied wit...

Imagine lying on the ground, fully conscious, unable to speak because you have ingested the poison, tetrodotoxin.

All your muscles become paralysed and and it starts getting harder to breathe. As your heart starts to beat slower and slower, you try to call for help but nothing comes out.

When you start to slowly die from asphyxiation, you start thinking why you ate fugu, one of the most celebrated and notorious dishes in Japanese cuisine - the blowfish.

Have you ever invited a friend over for dinner only to find out that they can't eat any of the food you've cooked - not because you're a bad cook or because they are allergic, but because their religion doesn't permit them to?

Living in multicultural Australia, I have had several awkward moments with my dinner guests, due to my ignorance. I figured if I can eat it, so can my guests. Clearly not.

When I was at my friend's house over the weekend, I noticed her throwing away perfectly good food - leftovers from the night before, and cheese that h...

During the Middle Ages, there was a belief that the first unmarried person of the opposite sex you met on the morning of St. Valentine's Day would bec...

It may be known as one of the world's most famous drinks - the one with such power that it helped shape the image of Santa Clause from being a skinny,...

Imagine a place where women are the principal food gatherers and men hunt kangaroos, snakes, lizards and small birds, with boomerangs, sticks and spears.

A place where witchetty grubs, moths and roots were served as the main dish with a dessert of berries and people would travel from season to season, having to move to where the various food sources would be available. A place where the land, nature and roaming animals were your grocery shop.