1+ week, 2+ day ago   (287+ words) For a growing number of ageing residents across Warrnambool and its surrounding regions, a good meal no longer means a trip to the supermarket or a long stint at the stove. An ambitious local initiative is changing how our region…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (425+ words) A popular Warrnambool coffee shop's new owners are no strangers to the city's hospitality industry. Allee Espresso is now under the management of a couple who ran a successful cafe in Warrnambool's CBD for nine years. Mark and Katrina Brightwell…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (647+ words) This movie about the youthful Anthony Bourdain begins with a self-lacerating epigraph from his book Kitchen Confidential: "I was - to be frank - a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout." The future chef and author is shown to have…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (486+ words) Vulnerable members of the community have been pushed aside in an ugly rush for free food. The behaviour has been condemned by organisers of the Cobden Food Rescue Market, which was held at the town's Uniting Church Hall on Friday,…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (432+ words) Growing up on her family's farm near Hamilton, Millie Austin learnt everything there is to know about merino wool. Now, the 23-year-old is using her background to challenge fast fashion and innovate the industry she grew up in. After becoming…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (438+ words) In 1888, Cobden became home to the first co-operative butter factory in the southern hemisphere. Staffed by just eight, it now employs about 300 people. The factory occupied nine acres of land when it opened. Just 12 years later, it totalled 500 acres and…...