The Kitchen Table

20 Feb 2014

Portsea – The Kitchen Table teams gets a travel budget, hurrah!

Australia, Food, Politics, Summer

Reporter Shannon braves the journey to Portsea to see how the other-side live from a safe comfortable distance of a picnic table.

She meets with Thomas Hounslow, a man who has spent several summers working at the Portsea Pub. The two discuss the importance of summer jobs and why Tom enjoyed his so much that he kept returning, and the differences between people who’ve worked hospitality and those who’ve worked retail.

There’s a fight where former chef Shannon and former waiter Tom battle it out over which profession is the best behaved. Shannon is sure she wins. Reality may think something else.

Then Shannon and Tom go off road to visit the beach where former Prime Minister Harold Holt went missing. Tom may try to push Shannon in the water when she starts talking about another former prime minister, Julia Gillard.

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7 Apr 2014

Blaze of glory

Food, nutrition, Pacific, Sex, This food is legal

We’ve talked religion, we’ve talked politics and now the final taboo: sex. The Kitchen Table team split up and go out ...

1 Apr 2014

Rules for food because you need to be safe

Australia, Food, meat, Religion

Spirit Lounge's occasional guest Tal Meretz and Shannon Gillies discuss their personal food rules. They talk hygiene, fears of mystery meat ...

30 Mar 2014

Religion gets mixed up in the grill

Australia, Food, meat, Religion, This food is legal, Wine

[caption id="attachment_149" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Tal and Shannon get involved with the JOY Kitchen.[/caption] This is not a sign of the Apocalypse. We ...