Eat It

On today's show we celebrated the re-opening of St Kilda's Esplanade Hotel, which is one of the finest hotel makeovers since Donleavy Fitzpatrick restored The George to its former glory. It's awesome to see people back at the Espy! Burch & Purchese's Darren Purchese joined us to talk about his new book Chef's Host Christmas Too, and we talked about the traditional vs Australian Christmas cuisine. Lastly food writer Michael Harden ran us through some of the more recent restaurants worthy of your attention, as well as some of his old favourites.

On today's show we were joined by Gippsland Pearl's Sara Bailey talking all things snail caviar (it's a thing!), we had an extended market report from John, and Melbourne's Prosecco Queen Melissa Brauer visited the studio to talk about the different varieties of Prosecco.

We started out today's show marking the tragic passing of Sisto Malaspina, the co-owner of iconic Melbourne cafe Pellegrini's. We also spoke to chef at Long Song David Moyle, and caterer to the film and TV industry Ed Summers.

On today's show we spoke to Bar Lourinha's Matt McConnel and Jo Gamvros about their new book Eat At The Bar, caught up with John at the market, and talked all things Bourbon with Blue Bonnet's Nathaniel White

On today's show we spoke to Meira Harel about the upcoming Grow Assembly event at Fitzroy Town Hall, and also had an extended chat to Melbourne super-chef Ben Shewry from Attica.

On today's show we had a market report with John at the Queen Vic Market, and we caught up with Boris Portnoy from Northcote's All Are Welcome.

So in light of the recent media panic about strawberries, in which an entire industry has almost been brought to its knees by a tiny contamination, we say to you all: eat strawberries! We asked a bunch of our friends what they suggest as ways to use them, and we've put the list up on our Facebook page. We also had a market report from John, and were joined by Jac Semmler from the Digger's Club... it's Spring, time to get back into the garden peeps!

On today's show we spoke to Raelene Isbester and Roshelle Fong about their upcoming fringe festival shows, Paul Podjonovic about the artifacts being uncovered during the Melbourne Metro build, and Tracy Lister about her time living and working in Vietnam.

On today's show we spoke to fermentation guru Ivy Lane about her upcoming Community Sauerkraut Day, Mat Lumalasi from Melbourne City Rooftop Honey chatted about the recent controversy with imported honey, and winemaker Duncan Buchanan spoke about Springtime bud-burst.