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Paul Bocuse on The Future of Dining an interview with Bocuse during his visit to Australia in November 1997

The Chic Italian Bitro Cameron Smith explores the new super-cool 'Italian' bistros and finds that the more things change the more they stay the same

Eating with Kids David Greason with some sage advice on kids in the restaurant environment

Melbourne, one of the great food capitals is the argument made by Bob Weis in spite of incredulous disbelief from the inhabitants of other contending cities.

The Heat of the Kitchen A look at the pressures a chef works under and sketch of his or her responsibilities

The Birth of Restaurants A brief look at how restaurants came into being in the late 18th Century and their development in the first part of the 19th Century.

Restaurant Definitions An explanation of the meaning of the words restaurant, bistro and cafe; which looks the staff levels and the situations described by these often misunderstood terms.

Tea Mary Keneally looks at the ritual of taking tea and investigates establishments in Melbourne which serve Tea.

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Birth of Restaurants
Traces the birth of restaurants in the late 18th century in Paris. The voyage is enlivened with extensive contemporary quotes

Bocuse Future Dining
A 1997 interview with Paul Bocuse in which he talks of the future of dining

Eating with Kids
David Greason discusses eating with kids and a very useful list of hints for those in the company of children in restaurants

Italian Bistros
Cameron Smith traces the end of the Chianti bottle and red checked table cloth and the rise of the chic super cool new Italian bistros and finds that the more things change the more they stay the same

Kitchen Heat
A piece on the trials and tribulation of being a chef or a restaurateur and the difference between a cook and a chef

Melbourne vs World
Bob Wies argues that Melbourne is one of the great food capitals of the world and gets the response: Another hayseed boosting his distant and impoverished squalid village

Opinions Food Restaurants
Opinion pieces relating to Australian food

Restaurant definitions
A piece that looks at the meaning of the classic words, restaurant, cafe, bistro and brasserie and discusses what type of places these are in France, their staff levels and pricing

Taking Tea
Marry Kenneally talks tea. She describes the importance of the rituals and follows up with a biting look at a number of Melbourne establishments attempts to provide the sustainance to soul and bosy that taking tea provides


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