Daniel Semrani shares how to make award-winning pizza
Daniel Semrani is the owner and chef at Gigi's Pizzeria in Balmain, Sydney, renowned for its distinctive pizza that blends Roman and Neapolitan styles.
He is a judge for Australia's Best Pizza Awards happening at Pizza Pasta Italian Food Show event in Melbourne 18-19 May.
Today, Daniel will show three different pizzas:
Best seller: San Marzano tomato, dried oregano, chopped garlic, spiced olive oil, Spanish Anchovies Olasagasti
Pineapple: ham, pineapple, gorgonzola, pecorino, balsamic glaze, olive oil
Unusual: Arabian/Italian infused pizza: Arabian sausage (intense spice), Fior Di Latte, red onion. After cooked: add a fresh Za'atar leaf, more red onion (for the crunch), lemon olive oil
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Teresa Palmer back for another Aussie drama series
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The series takes place over four episodes, with only one episode dropping each week, so we'll have to be patient as the story unfolds. Florence Hunt (Bridgerton's Hyacinth) and newcomer Rory Walton-Smith are delightful as the teen versions of the pair in 1989. Palmer is the grown up Alison, and there's a clear sadness and underappreciation in her performance that invites you to learn more about this woman's life. Jim Sturgess (One Day) is the adult Daniel, clearly still harbouring some feelings for his high school love. Mix Tape is a serious, music-infused romantic drama, its emotions played with earnestness. It doesn't feel the need to break tension with laughs. There's not a great deal in the way of story in the first episode, so you'll have to stick it out to see where these characters are going. Remember the raunchy teen comedy genre? It was huge in the 80s, but where did it go? 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It's a truly ludicrous premise that does feel straight out of the 80s, but Summer of 69 is actually far tamer than you'd expect. There's no nudity, and the raunchiness doesn't get much further than the title. The heart of this film is the growing friendship between Abby and Santa Monica, who both grow under the other's influence to become more well-rounded, self-confident women. What should have been a massive miss is actually a surprising success, and a lot of that goes down to funny and sharp writing, and committed performances from the cast, which also includes Charlie Day, Natalie Morales, Liza Koshy and Nicole Byer in support. Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney are mother and daughter in this moody dramatic thriller. Moore's Kate lives and works alone at her farm, caring for horses and teaching the occasional lesson. She's grieving the loss of her wife and struggling to pay for the upkeep of the property. Her quiet monotony is broken one night when her daughter Claire shows up out of the blue. Claire has a history with substance abuse, and Kate - desperate for her daughter to be alright and keep coming home - is powerless to hold back assistance when she asks for it. But this latest visit comes with trouble. Claire and her on-again-off-again boyfriend have fallen foul of their drug dealer Jackie (a long-haired Domhnall Gleeson, recently seen in Fountain of Youth) and need to go off the grid for a few days until the heat dies down. Unsurprisingly, that's not the end of the story, and we'll see just how far Kate will go to keep her daughter safe. Echo Valley is more of a character piece than a plot-driven affair. The pacing is slow, the dialogue sparse and the overall mood pretty gloomy. The performances are solid, and the ending makes up for some of the experience of watching what can at times be a borderline boring film. 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There's not a great deal in the way of story in the first episode, so you'll have to stick it out to see where these characters are going. Remember the raunchy teen comedy genre? It was huge in the 80s, but where did it go? Summer of 69 tries to resurrect that genre, and mostly does, but also manages to be unexpectedly wholesome and sweet. From writer-director Jillian Bell (you might remember her from 22 Jump Street, Brittany Runs a Marathon, Godmothered), the coming of age comedy sees high schooler Abby (Sam Morelos, That 90s Show) determined to win the affections of her dreamboat classmate Max (Matt Cornett, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series) in the wake of his relationship ending. Learning from a perhaps unreliable source of school gossip that Max's sexual interests tend towards the number of the film title, Abby decides she needs to become more skilled in the bedroom department and hires a local stripper to teach her the ways of the world. 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Moore's Kate lives and works alone at her farm, caring for horses and teaching the occasional lesson. She's grieving the loss of her wife and struggling to pay for the upkeep of the property. Her quiet monotony is broken one night when her daughter Claire shows up out of the blue. Claire has a history with substance abuse, and Kate - desperate for her daughter to be alright and keep coming home - is powerless to hold back assistance when she asks for it. But this latest visit comes with trouble. Claire and her on-again-off-again boyfriend have fallen foul of their drug dealer Jackie (a long-haired Domhnall Gleeson, recently seen in Fountain of Youth) and need to go off the grid for a few days until the heat dies down. Unsurprisingly, that's not the end of the story, and we'll see just how far Kate will go to keep her daughter safe. Echo Valley is more of a character piece than a plot-driven affair. The pacing is slow, the dialogue sparse and the overall mood pretty gloomy. 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9 News
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- 9 News
The military code being used to mock Donald Trump
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The Age
11-06-2025
- The Age
‘I was 100 per cent the guy': Jim Sturgess on what makes the perfect mixtape
Jim Sturgess didn't have to look very far to find his character in Binge's new drama Mix Tape. 'That was me in at 17,' he says of Daniel O'Toole, a teenager in Sheffield, England in the 1980s who falls in love with music and a girl at the same time. 'I was 100 per cent the guy that was walking around with his headphones on, making mixtapes for everybody, certainly as a sort of romantic gesture for girls in school and stuff like that. It was a huge go-to tactic.' In Mix Tape it's a tactic that works rather too well. Daniel and Alison (played in their youth by Rory Walton-Smith and Florence Hunt) meet and connect through their shared passion for bands and ultimately fall in love. But then Alison disappears, for reasons that are unexplained, leaving Daniel confused and heartbroken. When we catch up with him 17 years later, now played by Sturgess, he's married with kids, still obsessed with music, but living another life. 'Daniel is still in Sheffield,' says Sturgess. 'He's a music journalist and he's never really left the town that he grew up in. Alison, on the other hand, has started a whole new life in Sydney, in Australia, as a writer and has just written this wildly successful novel that's gained global attention.' And so begins a classic tale of love lost and found across continents. Cue soundtrack – Love Will Tear Us Apart – and in Daniel and Alison's case, it has. The success of Alison's (Teresa Palmer) book becomes a catalyst for the two characters to reconnect from opposite sides of the globe. A dialogue begins courtesy of shared playlists, songs and music from their past. 'The music reignites a lot of feelings and emotions from their youth,' explains Sturgess, 'and ultimately forces them to confront the dark truth about what happened to Alison and why she had to leave Sheffield in the way that she did. And then they're sort of left with these feelings that this music and this new connection is creating between the two of them.' You can guess what those feelings might be: 'It's really a story about unresolved love,' Sturgess says.
