Author Archives for Emily Stone
Australia’s Sustainable Seafood Guide
Australia has 16,000 miles of coastline. When I moved here from New York last year, one thing I thought I could count on was abundant, affordable seafood. I imagined bling-bling three-tiered platters of chilled shellfish. I pictured every port city like Maine during lobster season, swimming in crustaceans. In reality, many of Australia’s marine species […]
Slow Food in Motion
The Slow Food movement’s 80,000 members are busy these days. So are the bloggers who support them. The flavors, political ferment, and record attendance of 16,000 people in one weekend at Australia’s Taste of Slow Festival has been enthusiastically documented by bloggers the world over, including Mighty Foods, A Few of My Favorite […]
Australian Cheese: Beyond Tasty
I’m a new member of the Cheese Club at Melbourne’s Richmond Hill Café & Larder. This is serious business. The cheese room at this upscale institution run by Australian culinary doyenne Stephanie Alexander is a climate-controlled laboratory where giant wheels of cheese are stored, aged, ripened, and eventually displayed in the standing-room-only, glass-walled parlor that […]
Tasmanian Honey
I have been tantalized by honey for months. In June, at an outdoor market on the Loire river in France, I carefully deliberated over a set of four jars of varietal honey. Every type of honey, I was learning, has a flavor distinct to the flowers that were pollinated by the bees that […]
Assembling an Organic Roledex in Australia
A major Australian newspaper (Melbourne’s The Age) recently dedicated its entire food section to the subject of ethical eating. Much of the cover story is motivated by the grim realities of modern commercial food production and consumption outlined in the two new books The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan and The Ethics of What […]
Emily Stone - Bio
I’m an itinerant traveler, a lover of literature, and a native New Yorker who’s currently based in Australia. I’ve also been a movie reviewer, a reproductive health researcher, and an independent bookstore owner.
I grew into an everyday cook a couple of years ago when I lived in the historic Central American town of Antigua, Guatemala. […]
