JavaScript disabled. Please enable JavaScript to use My News, My Clippings, My Comments and user settings.

If you have trouble accessing our login form below, you can go to our login page.

If you have trouble accessing our login form below, you can go to our login page.

Entertainment

Dupleix and Durack

Jill Dupleix has had a distinguished career as a food writer in Australia – and, more recently, in Britain where she was food editor of The Times for six years.
Terry Durack was restaurant critic of London’s Independent on Sunday for 8 years. The author of six books, he is currently chief restaurant reviewer for the Herald and co-editor of the Good Food Guide 2011.
Here's the previous avatar of Table Talk.
RSS

Table Talk

How eating in Sydney makes you fat

Goodgod Bar and The Dip, with a Kosher hot dog on a steamed brioche bun.

Terry Durack "Dude food", "Crispy" and white trash having a heavy impact on Sydney’s menus. Renee Zellwegger couldn’t have found a better diet in order to turn herself into Bridget Jones than you can find around...

Comments 92

Hot coffee

Sydney's ten hottest new cafes

Sydney's ten hottest new cafes

Jill Dupleix The 10 cafes you should be at right now.

Comments 69

ChickieNobs or soylent green, anyone?

Aphrodisiac jellies

Jill Dupleix When science fiction and food collide.

Comments 12

Table Talk

Around the world in 12 dishes

Le Dauphin Paris.

Terry Durack and Jill Dupleix From Heston Blumenthal in London to the best €16 lunch in Paris.

Comments 12

Jamie's Italian

The best and worst of Jamie's Italian

Jamie Oliver

Terry Durack Eight Good Things About Jamie’s Italian in Sydney (and Eight Not So Good).

Comments 38

Why Momofuku Seiobo will change Sydney dining

Cured trumpeter with warrigal greens and samphire - Momofuko Seiobo

Terry Durack Sometimes a standard length review just isn't enough. Momofuku Seibo will change Sydney. It has already changed Sydney. And eating there will change your expectations of Sydney dining.

Comments 45

Wake up and smell the coffee: The SMH Good Cafe Guide is here.

Coffee

Jill Dupleix A hell of a lot of coffees died in the making of the first Sydney Morning Herald Good Café Guide. Our team went out morning after morning for months on end, battling cyclists, commuters and ...

Comments 38

Come on, Aussie, come on

sepia

Terry Durack The dust has settled on this year’s S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards, held in London on April 18, 2011.

Comments 31

Of love, hate and Brussels sprouts

brussell sprouts

Jill Dupleix Just when you thought it was safe to eat green vegetables, Brussels sprouts are back in season.

Comments 54

50 things I learned at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2011

nigella lawson

TD Melbourne loves nipples, and other findings from the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.

Comments 12

Still living (and eating) in the 70's

prawn cocktail

Jill Dupleix There’s a bit of a Seventies thing going on in the food world at the moment.

Comments 43

Daggy but delicious: the latest food fashion

peas

Terry What's the daggiest food you can't live without?

Comments 167

Ugly is good

Tomato sugo.

JD Suddenly, spots are good. Blemishes are great. When it comes to shopping for fruit and vegetables in the aftermath of the floods, the best thing we can do is stop being picky.

Comments 50

Terry's Top Ten – The Best Dishes of 2010

piadine

Terry Durack You eat, you drink, you sleep, then you wake up and do it all again. So what is it that makes one dish stand out from the crowd?

Comments 35

Food we love to hate

chicken feet

Jill Dupleix Runny eggs, coriander, liquorice, beetroot, chilli, smelly cheese...it's amazing how many foods people have issues with. Or are they just plain spoilt?

Comments 208

Junk food doesn't have to be rubbish

sausage roll

Terry Durack It's time we reclaimed the good stuff and saved junk food from itself.

Comments 95

Cafe Love: why cafes are the new restaurants

coffee

Jill Dupleix They’re cheaper. They’re more fun. They’re closer to home. They have better coffee. More interesting people go there. Give me a good café over a restaurant every time.

Comments 112

The natural wine phenomenon

natural wines

Terry Durack 2010 has seen the natural wine movement hit the big time in all sorts of small and beautiful ways, writes Tery Durack

Comments 23

Write your own food biography: my life in 10 dishes.

sticky date pudding

Jill Food is a great way of tracing your own personal history, writes Jill Dupleix.

Comments 63

Panna Cotta Alert!

Panna Cotta.

Terry Durack Panna cotta is taking over dessert lists and it's time we said enough's enough, writes Terry Durack.

Comments 36