The Books of Apicius is considered by many to be the first written cookbook, dated around 1st century AD. Image taken from The Books of Apicius I found the allegedly oldest cookbook, when I was wondering how or where the obsession for cookbooks ever came from. My search led me to this little gem. The cookbook section in book…

This past weekend I decided to try my hand at making silverbeet and ricotta ravioli. The idea came when I had a bunch of silvertbeet left over. Rather than cook it up the usual two ways that I do, I decided to try something new. It was my first attempt at making ravioli of any kind. I won’t go through the process of what I did. …

As a teenager I used to be obsessed with Marie Claire. I would buy it each month without fail. I even completed my work experience with their publishing house during University. So when they contacted me in July about a feature, I could not say no. The story features myself, Lauren from TIFT and Bea of Zero Waste Home. While it'…

We eat a couple avocados a month. Lucky the avocados we buy are almost a year round indulgence, and come from a farm three hours from Melbourne. The same farm supplies all of our citrus fruit in winter, growing the best blood oranges EVER. I try my hardest to use up as much of the food I buy. Right now I have a pot on the stove full o…

My talented sister is sharing a step by step guide to making your own cutlery wraps. I am selling these in my Starter Kits for Plastic Free and Zero Waste Living   (sold out) , and it was my sister who made these and the bag for the kits. I know there are plenty of people who are handy with a sewing machine (or a needle and thread)…

My post on synthetic fibers was nothing more than me trying to nut out my thoughts. I try to live a plastic free life, and this blog is the records of my experiments. So after I hit publish on that post I received emails from some of you, letting me know that i can't save the world. This is true, I cannot save the world and believe…