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Advertisement When Bill Tsigos heard that a woman wanted to convert his old Alphington butcher shop into a pavlova outlet, he was a little puzzled. Pavlova was not a dish he knew. As a butcher, T-bone steaks, mince, and his famous sausages were more his domain. Pleased to meat you: Nerida McPherson sells pavlovas out of Bill Tsigos’s former Alphington butcher shop. Credit:Scott McNaughton But Mr Tsigos, 86, a much-loved figure in this north-eastern Melbourne suburb - in 2018 The Age named his shop as one of the “six reasons to visit Alphington” - is now happy to see his Wingrove Street...

Advertisement Nerida McPherson doesn't have a sweet tooth and had never made a pavlova until four months ago. Yet she has found an unlikely new career making the classic Australian dessert. Pandemic pivot: Nerida McPherson with pavlovas she has made for Christmas orders. Credit:Chris Hopkins While many of us are winding down, Ms McPherson, aka the Pav Queen, is whipping up a storm in a Collingwood kitchen, with 100 orders to fill this week before Christmas Day. She said if you had told her a year ago that by the end of 2020 she would be running such a business, "I’d have said, 'It’s the m...