May 2010

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Rambling BA blog1

On 8th May 2010 poet, journalist and food artist Michelle Rambler opened Rambling Restaurant’s doors for the first time in South America. Back in March this year, on a quest to discover more about her Latino roots, Michelle upped sticks and set up camp in Buenos Aires. She has been artist in residence at Argentine artist Lucrecia Urbano’s studio in San Ferdando, a leafy suburb north of the city which is home to chocolate factories, farms and one of Buenos Aires’ largest villas miserias, La Cava. Read the rest of this entry »

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the hub feast

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A few weeks ago I went to my first Hub Feast in Kings Cross. For anyone unfamiliar with the Hub, it’s a virtual and physical network designed to “inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world.” We’re talking social, cultural and environmental challenges here. Read the rest of this entry »

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Pizza dough

Last week I made my first pizza, courtesy of Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi at La Cucina Caldesi cookery school. I’d been there a year before, to witness Giancarlo demonstrate all the different dishes you can make with a certain pasta sauce from a jar. Unfortunately, by the time I’d eaten five dishes made with the stuff, I never wanted to taste its synthetic flavour again. In fact, it put me off jars of sauce for life. So it was with trepidation that I made my way back there. Read the rest of this entry »

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