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Leanne Kitchen - 'Blog - The Smart Mouth'

I grew up on a dairy farm in the Waikato not learning how to cook a thing. That changed. I went on to train and work as a chef for fourteen or so years, both in Auckland and in Sydney. Eventually I crossed over into the world of food media; I worked as food editor on some of the major Australasian food magazines including F.Q. Entertaining, Vogue Entertaning + Travel and Australian Gourmet Traveller. During an eclectic career in publishing I've variously been a food stylist, recipe developer, cooking demonstrator, features' writer, restaurant reviewer, copy writer, cook book editor and cook on photo shoots. Now I work as a freelancer, mainly pulling cookbooks together (although when I am able to sneak off without anyone at home really noticing, I write travel stories for magazines too.) Books I have written include the 'Providore' series; The Butcher, The Baker, The Dairy and The Greengrocer. My latest release is 'Turkey, Recipes and Tales from the Road' a gorgeous tome based around one of the great Mediterranean cuisines. I live in the Inner West of Sydney where I'm in a constant state of confusion about what to cook and eat next. 

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Quince/Wince (comments 2)

Some things simply don’t deserve to be at the butt end of my snide humour. Not many things, mind you, but there are some Sacred Cows. The Young Achiever Awards, for example. Animals facing extinction. Orphans. Killer diseases. Unjust wars. You get my drift. Not everything is funny. Quinces too are deadly serious things and I learned this the hard way, when I worked on food magazines. more>

 11/05/2011 10:58 p.m.

I'm a kleptomaniac...what of it!

I’m a lousy gardener and I know this is a serious admission of inadequacy. more>

 29/04/2011 06:52 p.m.

Brussels Sprouts (comments 1)

Of all the things that spark fear and repulsion in the human heart- public speaking, burial alive, a North Korean invasion, a round trip on a cruise liner to Pitcairn Island (with a super bug or two and a ship of fools for company)- Brussels sprouts rate High Up There. They're the butt of endless jokes and the source of many scarring food memories more>

 18/04/2011 07:37 p.m.

From Turkey, Recipes And Tales from The Road

The following is some text I wrote for my up-coming book, Turkey, Recipes And Tales From The Road. For design reasons (and because, let's face it, I'm bloody long-winded) most of my words were subject to a severe slash-and-burn. However I feel the need to unleash them SOMEWHERE....thank goodness for the internet!! This piece is about Doğubeyazıt, a tatty border town near Iran, where I had some sensational village food and the worst hamam experience of my life... more>

 26/11/2010 08:24 a.m.

Out to lunch.. Episode 1 (comments 34)

I KNOW. I've been out to lunch. I can only imagine how much the Foodie fraternity has missed my verbose opinionations. And my made-up words. But I'm back now from running a little A.W.O.L. and in my defense I'll say I have a mighty fine excuse for absenteeism. more>

 18/06/2010 09:30 a.m.

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