Te Queremos, Sol Sister

This ginger Sun Cake was made by Joanna Anderson
and Michael Prior for Caroline's birthday in August 2011.
The last 2 photos were taken by Monica Syrette.

Rich Picturing

COOKBOOK north/south

COOKBOOK north/south is a choice project that was co-ordinated by Lily, Shona and Kristy from Wolfgang, Shlomo and Max. It has recipes, stories and pictures from Melbourne chefs, writers and artists, who each describe an aspect of their experience of food and culture in a particular suburb of Melbourne. The type was letterpress printed at the Melbourne Museum of Printing and the pictures are all linocut. Here's my picture of Oly McLeish.

Family festival and Grampians cake

It was Dad's 60th birthday last weekend. Dad and Mum came over from NZ for 6 days and the whole family went to the Grampians to celebrate. Sean, Caroline and I six timesed a recipe and made a marbled chocolate and almond Grampians cake with everyone on it.
Here is some trivia:
We used 18 eggs.
The Grampians ranges (known by Aboriginal people as Gariwerd) are 260km north west of Melbourne and are 1000 metres high.
All the people are edible.
Yep that is Belgian chocolate and the rubble and dirt is made of hazelnuts.
Mum gets embarrassed if she ever bumps into anyone she knows when she is wearing that sheepskin hat.

Here is a photo essay of the whole process.