Gifts
Foodie Profile #16 – Georgie Castle of Citizen Cacao
Citizen Cacao Raw Truffles (image: Rochelle Seator) There are some people you meet who just radiate kindness. Georgie Castle is one of those people. The first time we met, it was like we’d been friends for years and not only is she a lovely person…she also makes THE most amazing raw, vegan chocolate. Her business, Citizen...
Foodie’s Christmas Gift Guide
Foodie’s and friends and families of foodies, I’ve done the work for you. Here is our Foodie’s Christmas Gift Guide with some excellent choices for the food obsessed in your life. Starting from $7.95 find everything from Kris Kringle gifts to stocking fillers, as well as more unique presents for all budgets, every foodie...
Foodie Profile #14 – Mad About Cakes
Madie Gostin of Mad About Cakes – Image Credit, Profile Pub Note: Mad About Cakes now has a bricks and mortar store at 5/467C Hawthorn Road, Caulfield South in Melbourne. 1. Madie, how did your business start? I have always loved to bake but pretty much fell into Cake Decorating. I remember seeing Paris Cutler’s...
Christmas Cookbook Gift Guide
Christmas has come around again – sneaking up on us like it always does. For all the foodie’s out there, I’ve put together a Christmas Cookbook Gift Guide (and personal wish list) of my favourite cookbook titles this year. There were so many to choose from (as always) but these are definitely the ones which...
Food Gifts for Aussie Expats
Food Gifts for Aussie Expats In 2014 I became an expat. A visit from friends who came bearing the following bounty, made me even more aware of my nationality: Tim Tam Dark Chocolate Chocolicious Bites, Caramello Koalas and BBQ shapes. Their thoughtful gift got me thinking about all the other Australian expats scattered around...
Catching up with Curtis Stone
Curtis Stone’s bright smile and sunny disposition need no introduction. This last week has been a big one for the celebrity chef with the birth of his second child, Emerson (congratulations!), and the launch of his new and very affordable kitchen range for Target Australia today. The 80-piece range called ‘The Curtis Stone Collection for...
Gift Guide: Father’s Day 2014
Father’s Day is looming (Sunday September 7). If you haven’t even had a moment to think about it yet or just have no idea what to get the man that seems to always have everything, here are some of my top gift suggestions. 1.Billy Law’s newest cookbook ‘Man Food: Good Food for a Good Time‘; is...
Link Love: Lifestyle
‘Link Love’ is a new segment on DC that celebrates cool links and sites. Our second instalment in the series focuses on lifestyle. I’ve chosen a few links that have grabbed my attention of late, as well as some of my go-to’s for lifestyle inspiration and homewares. If you have a site or article that...
Gift: Boomf Marshmallows
(Image by @abbietastic via Instagram) You know how there are some people that are really hard to give gifts to because they ‘have everything’? I’m pretty sure I’ve found something they won’t have…Boomf. This is not a figure of speech but the name of a company that prints photos from your phone, computer, Facebook...
Foodie Profile #9 – Melanie Stapleton of Cecilia Fox
(Image by Eve Wilson) Melanie Stapleton is a florist, and the owner of Cecilia Fox in East Brunswick. Her team’s creations are truly stunning and they have floralised (new word I know) many incredible weddings and events (and my 30th – lol). We chatted to Melanie about how she started, whether ‘flower walls’ post the...
Growing Honest Food by Gabriella Gomersall-Hubbard
Down a suburban street, under a canopy of Zibbibo and white grapes, on a plot of land in Keilor lies Rose Creek Estate – Melbourne’s local home of award winning wine and olive oil. In Growing Honest Food, Gabriella Gomersal-Hubbard captures the story of it’s beginnings and how from scratch owners, Tony and Lina Siciliano...
Foodie Profile #8 – Miss Biscuit
(Image of Julia Day taken by Haven Lifestyle Photography) When Julia Day starting making biscuits she found couldn’t stop. Her biscuit range started growing and so did her orders, and the rest as they say is history. We chat to Julia of Miss Biscuit about how she started, her most popular biscuit requests and...
