A couple of weeks ago, a friend invited me to dinner at Kobe Jones at Sydney's King Street Wharf. Little did I know that it would be one of the mos...

Butter's butter, right?It's made from cow's milk, it's natural, it's loaded with cholesterol, it's a carefully cultivated heart attack if you spread i...

In Zimbabwe, my birth country, when it came to the roles of a man and a woman in a relationship, the office was for men and the kitchen was for women...

Dumpster diving. Some do it to save money. Freegans do it at supermarkets for political reasons. The homeless do it for survival. But for ...

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.

Just a quarter of Australians are at a healthy weight, according to a study which also put the total cost of caring for the nation's overweight and obese people at more than $56 billion a year.

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...

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.

Here's a trivia question for you: on January 27, 2010, Australia came third behind Hungary and Germany for:

a) rowing competition
b) baking competition
c) a beer drinking competition?

According Fruit Grower's Victoria Chairman, Andrew Plunkett, it’s pear time. While we may be inundated with stone fruit and the bounty of late summer, early varieties of pears are at their best now and in the next few weeks.