Deborah Gough
Reporter for The Age
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Eight solutions to supermarket food waste
How many of us have thrown away perfectly good food? Here are some top tips to reducing food waste.
- Deborah Gough
The smashed avocado price crisis hits Melbourne
Smashed avocado on sourdough may drop off menus around Melbourne or the price may soar as the cost of avocados skyrockets.
- Deborah Gough
Time ripe for local frozen berries as Victorian farmers eye Australian first
After an outbreak of hepatitis A linked to frozen berries from China, Australians may soon be able to buy local berries. But they will have to pay a premium.
- Deborah Gough
Nanna's berries sent to US and Italy for hepatitis A tests
Commercial food production laboratories are not equipped to test for hepatitis A in Australia so Nanna's frozen berries have instead been sent to the United States and Italy to see if raspberries may be the cause of the virus outbreak.
- Deborah Gough
1kg packs of Nanna's frozen raspberries added to hepatitis A recall
The Nanna's frozen berry recall has extended to packs of raspberries as the maker revealed it dumped a supplier potentially linked to a hepatitis A outbreak, late last year.
- Deborah Gough
Victoria reigns pizza supreme in takeaway price wars
Victoria, long regarded as a foodie mecca, has a new mantle, home of Australia's "cheapest takeaway menus", data from an online and mobile ordering service suggests.
- Deborah Gough
Local craft beers 'bullied' out of pubs by foreign brewing giants
Australian craft beer makers are being locked out of pubs as a result of anti-competitive practices by a foreign brewing giant, consumer group Choice alleges.
- Deborah Gough
Chocolate-lovers lie to partners to hide their habit
The rustling wrapper might be a dead giveaway, but a survey has found nearly half of all adults lie to their partners about how much chocolate they eat.
- Deborah Gough
Garden-to-plate gurus enjoy a lunch of school children's labours
American garden-to-plate guru Alice Waters and kindred spirit Stephanie Alexander lived the dream on Monday – sharing a long table with school children who had grown and cooked their own lunch.
- Deborah Gough
Donovans restaurant fire damage bill climbs again
The cost of returning Donovans restaurant to its former glory has blown out to nearly $2.5 million after a blaze destroyed the kitchen and parts of the dining room.
- Deborah Gough