The world of food is fast and getting faster. Your stomach rumbles, you check the time. Can you be bothered cooking? Your thumb hovers over the UberEATS app icon. Delivery is only a few dollars, and Maccas is already so cheap. A few taps are all it takes to live out this once exclusive experience of personal catering. The convenience of the modern food industry is intoxicating, though behind this alluring façade there lurk many ugly truths.
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Read MoreOn behalf of the Lost team, thank you for your support and kindness - I hope the stories in this edition are as enchanting and dreamy for you as they were for me. Buckle up my friends, it's time to get Lost.
Read More“The idea is that we cater to guests, sure, but we also want to be a place where locals feel comfortable and intrigued enough to visit regularly. We’ll be changing the menu often enough to keep it interesting.”
Read More“One of the advantages of being around for 50 years is that you get to know the region really well and the varieties tend to sort themselves out,” he says. “In the early days in Australia every region tried to do everything but now with the kind of gathered knowledge we have, it means that regions like the Macedon Ranges reveal themselves as ideal for particular varieties and become distinctive for those.”
For fans of delicious, beautifully crafted Victorian cool climate wines, Granite Hill’s pioneering hard work deserves heartfelt and grateful thanks.
Read MoreThe Haymes business model only deals with other family businesses; 15,000 professional family trade businesses, independent paint specialists and independent hardware stores. “That whole idea of familyness leads to community, which leads to Australian, which leads to care for the environment. These are the cornerstones of what we’re creating,” asserts Matt. “We’re a family business because of the 300 families not because of our family. We always say, blood is thicker than paint. Sounds corny, but it is.”
Read MoreFor Matt, it's the personal encounters that make his work worthwhile. Seeing people happy so that their “good mood” continues to bubble throughout the community.
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Read More‘We knew that we had found the right place to call home when our neighbour came and introduced herself before the moving truck had even departed’, says Claire.
Read MoreSurely, we can all remember our most treasured toy from childhood. Hold it in your mind, now. The best toys are not necessarily the flashiest or the most expensive. Rather, we value one or two simple things once held close for so long, mementos of our youth
Read MoreOn behalf of the Lost team, thank you for your support and kindness - I hope the stories in this edition are as enchanting and dreamy for you as they were for me. Buckle up my friends, it's time to get Lost.
Read More“My style is much more loose, uneven and natural looking. That’s wabi-sabi. I like knowing that it’s handmade. That it’s ceramic and really slow art. It takes time and you just have to be patient and slow down. And a lot of stuff doesn't work out. And you just have to let it go. And it's been really good for me to learn that. Acceptance. Accepting that it is what it is and letting it go.”
Read MoreThe Ulysses Club is a social club for motorcyclists over the age of 40 years. “And I started my passion for riding about 40 years ago, on a farm, riding bikes with my brothers,” quipps Macedon Ranges' first female club president, Sylvia Behan.
Read More“Daylesford promotes whatever your inner soul hankers for, whatever you really dream of doing I think you can actually dare to do it here.”
Read More“Hospitality seems to give me energy rather than take it away. You can feed off the energy of your customers when they’re having a good time.”
Read More"Ferments need to be eaten as part of our regular diet. On the table, in our lunches - small amounts of different ferments regularly " says Sharon.
Read More“Along with how quickly the gin came together, how easy and natural the process was to get the gin we wanted, it seemed fitting that we liked that tonic best. I think when something falls into place like that, it feels like it was meant to be.”
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