Sunshine Coast Hinterland Times

Chef Connections with Julie Shelton

Cameron Matthews - Spicers Clovelly Estate ON A sunny Sunday in July, I joined Slow Food members and friends in Montville for a Long Apron Long Table Long Lunch at Spicers Clovelly Estate. We dined on a magnificent spread created by chef, Cameron Matthews, and I caught up with him to chat about his approach to food. [...]

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These be your gods, oh Labor … Mungo MacCallum

“The government’s popularity has been falling for months, and it has now got to the point where the slide looks unstoppable.” It’s time, in fact it’s well past time, it may even be too late, for a reality check. Australia, having been the only advanced country to avoid recession, is now experiencing the economic double of falling [...]

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Bankruptcy with Tove Easton – PRINCIPAL LAWYER

Bankruptcy – Pros, Cons & Alternatives – Part 2 Last month I discussed bankruptcy generally and noted that rather than being the easy way out it does have many disadvantages that could possibly be avoided by considering alternatives. The first alternative I discussed was a cooling-of period or moratorium where the person contemplating bankruptcy is given [...]

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Ayurvedic Health Advice to Suit You with Wendy Rosenfeldt

Higher States of Consciousness WE ALL experience three changing states of consciousness. They are waking, dreaming and sleeping states. Each state of consciousness corresponds with a particular physiological state. In the sleep state the mind and body are at rest, in the dreaming state of consciousness the mind and body are rested but there is measurably more activity going on while in the waking [...]

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In the Wild with Spencer Shaw

Climate Change Well, who knows what the weather will be like when you are reading this, but at the end of July it looks like spring is well and truly upon us. Trees and shrubs are covered in new growth, the grass is starting to green up, birds are starting to collect nest material and down [...]

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OUT and ABOUT

AUGUST is a great month to enjoy our natural environment. Here on the Range we have the Festival of the Walks, while down on the coast the wallum wildflowers will be coming into bloom. Growth is resuming and spring is in the air despite the fact that it’s still winter, at least according to the [...]

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Book Bites with Anne Brown of ROSETTA BOOKS

MAKE IT MOROCCAN Chef Hassan M’Souli – considered one of Australia’s gurus on Moroccon cooking -brings you sensational recipes from his restautant Out Of Africa in Sydney. In this book Hassan highlights ways to best use a number of key ingredients for Moroccan cuisine, namely the ever-present tagine, couscous, pomegranates, herbs and spices. Moroccans have taken [...]

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Gillard takes poll position … with Mungo MacCallum

THE LABOR PARTY made Julia Gillard leader because it thought it was in trouble and it needed a trouble-shooter, a fixer. She delivered immediately; the first fix is in and the big miners are off the government’s back. The small miners aren’t too happy about it, but they were never the problem; it was BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and [...]

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Chef Connections – with Julie Shelton

Alan Thompson Flaxton Gardens Being a gastronome, I’m fascinated by the thrilling theatre of restaurants and their talented chefs. But how do they do it? Is it nature or nurture? I recently caught up with Alan Thompson, owner/chef at Flaxton Gardens, for some insight. Like most chefs of his calibre, Alan likes to cook according to the season, changing his [...]

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Tree Changers… Dorothy & Steve Hills

Dorothy and Steve Hills started their Green Kitchen Cafe in Coral Street Maleny only two months ago, but already on some days people queue to get inside the door. This is a dream come true for a couple who gave away a busy, inner Brisbane city lifestyle to live and work amongst a like-minded community. Why [...]

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