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    • Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Guide For 2017

    Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Guide For 2017

    From humble beginnings with a few events in 1993, The Melbourne Food & Wine Festival (MFWF) has flourished into Australia’s most influential and respected food & wine event, bolstering Melbourne place as the world’s most livable city. The festival has previously hosted international chefs such as Nigella Lawson (UK), Jamie Oliver (UK), René Redzepi (Denmark), Heston Blumenthal (UK), Andoni Luis Aduriz (Spain) and Thomas Keller (USA), ensuring that Victoria is right up there with the international greats, and continues to be a world leader in food trends and creativity.

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    MFWF Feature: The House of Food & Wine, Your Culinary Home

    MFWF Feature: The House of Food & Wine, Your Culinary Home

    The top feature of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival this year is undoubtedly The House of Food & Wine. The doors of this home, which is tucked down a laneway in true Melbourne style, have been thrown open just for you and your closest 14,000 friends. You’re to treat it as your home away from home, and your hosts wish to ply you with the best food, booze & art that Melbourne has to offer.

    March 31, 2017
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    MFWF Feature: Fed In French, Melbourne’s First French Food Market

    MFWF Feature: Fed In French, Melbourne’s First French Food Market

    This weekend the founders of Paris to Provence: Festival Français de Melbourne are bringing us Melbournians another French french festival to obsess over; Fed In French.   What As a part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, Fed In French brings us Victoria’s first ever (I know! I was surprised we hadn’t had one yet too!) French food market, which is spread over 3 glorious days and 2 stunning locations, all within Melbourne’s CBD. The open-air French food and wine market will take place along the river at Federation Square, and is a part of the Melbourne Food & Wine…

    March 30, 2017
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    What You Didn’t Know About Louise Kenny, The 58 Year Old Model

    What You Didn’t Know About Louise Kenny, The 58 Year Old Model

    At a healthy size 10 and an envious 179cm tall, Louise Kenny is one of those people who you can’t ignore. She’s not only gorgeous, but she’s sharp as a tack and witty as all hell. I’ve known her my whole life, because when she was 17 her and my Mum met at their job at an old-school Super-Colour print shop and badabing badaboom, best friends they became.

    March 22, 2017
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    Kendall Jenner Is Smokin’ In Racy New La Perla Lingerie Campaign

    Kendall Jenner Is Smokin’ In Racy New La Perla Lingerie Campaign

    La Perla, the iconic Italian lingerie company started in 1954, has just released a smokin’ hot campaign for its 2017 range featuring current Kardashian Queen Kendall Jenner. Having appeared on runways for Givenchy, Chanel, Tommy Hilfiger, Dolce & Gabbana, Balmain, Oscar de la Renta (and many, many more), as well as being the face of brands such as Estée Lauder, Balmain x H&M and Calvin Klein Jeans, Kendall is indisputably a huge calling card to have behind any campaign. Kendall famously walked in the 2015 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which is worthy of note as Victoria’s Secret and La Perla are well-known…

    March 21, 2017
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    What’s On In Melbourne This Week

    What’s On In Melbourne This Week

    Keen to head out and explore the world’s most livable city this week? Well, look no further because we’ve got you covered, from silent yoga discos to summer night markets, Korean culture to Kinky Boots.

    March 19, 2017
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    What’s On In Melbourne This Week

    What’s On In Melbourne This Week

    Keen to head out and explore the world’s most livable city this week? Well, look no further because we’ve got you covered, from fashun to food trucks.

    March 16, 2017
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