Feb 2, 2018
Looking up, looking down
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. " H. Jackson Brown, Jr. My French professor once referred to me in a...
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Jan 30, 2018
Weekends and food
"Ancient cultures like those of the Mayans and the pagans saw time as a wheel, their lives repeating in stages, ever turning. The...
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Jan 10, 2018
What's in a name?
I need a new name for this blog and I need help to find it. Why do I need a new name? Well for the life of this blog I have been using...
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Jan 1, 2018
New Year's Day - day of the agapanthus
It's a beautiful day, and so I vowed to start the year as I would go on by going for the Eltham walk and the thing that struck me was...
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Dec 31, 2017
The spaghetti mafia, Mietta again, nostalgia and family history
Today I am moving on to my next Christmas cookbook Mietta's Italian Family Recipes and I have to say that this is different yet again. ...
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Dec 27, 2017
Thus spake Zarathustra
"seven symbolic objects ... representing wishes for prosperity for the year ahead ... typically include sprouting wheatgrass symbolising...
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Dec 26, 2017
Mussels from Provence to Pondicherry
"An obvious consequence of the seafaring nature of colonialism, this has also given these places a cuisine laden with ingredients from...
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Dec 23, 2017
Busy, busy, busy
This is going to be a sort of non-post. Because of course it's almost Christmas - our big turkey day is tomorrow, so I have been busy...
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Dec 18, 2017
Summer is here - I admit it
"Summer food has to be easy food. It should make you feel as if you're on summer holidays even at the end of the working day, with...
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Dec 6, 2017
We eat the birds
“We ate the birds. We ate them. We wanted their songs to flow up through our throats and burst out of our mouths, and so we ate them. We...
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