ST HELIERS STREET FARMERS’ MARKETS IN THE NEIGHBOURLY SPIRIT On Saturday 28th January, the farmers’ are on the move! All the summer produce from 60 Victorian farmers and makers with the animal bonus as the Slow Food Farmers’ Market moves next door to the Collingwood Children’s Farm. Come during market hours and $2 per adult [...]

Christmas is fast approaching. If you live in the Melbourne area and would like some British goodies for your christmas dinner, email sales@pacdon.com.au for an order form and we will deliver to you before Christmas, or alternatively you can pick it up from one of our December markets. Order before Monday 5th December 2011 to [...]

Finalists Announced We are really happy that we have been chosen from a record number of entries from right around the country as a finalist in the delicious Produce Awards in the category “From the Paddock – Artisan” for our humble haggis which is made using another of the finalist’s produce (Warialda Belted Galloway Beef [...]

By Rowley Leigh (Rowley is the chef at Le Café Anglai, London) In the beginning, the pudding was the boudin. The boudin was anything stuffed inside an animal gut, the medieval cooking medium equivalent to the vacuum pouch so beloved by contemporary chefs. The haggis and the sausage are descendants of the boudin as are [...]

Once ubiquitous and now derided, there are many good reasons to cook with lard. Does it feature in your kitchen? writes Oliver Thring of the Guardian UK Thanks for getting this far. A headline like “Consider lard” will cause many readers to click away in horror, feeling arteries fur, strokes striking, the tempting of fat [...]