Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
One of the best things about summer in Australia is the fruit, especially mangoes! My babies think so too – they’ll do just about anything for mango. You can see my daughter here sucking on a mango seed and looking pretty happy with life. Any time I eat a mango near either of the babies, [...]
Last week I listed a dozen travel blogs I love to read. Today I’m going to share some more blog recommendations, starting off with some more travel blogs and then expanding to other themes. Which blogs rock YOUR world? Have you nominated anyone for the 2012 Bloggies yet? Nominations close on Sunday (Monday Australian time) [...]
I have to admit I had my doubts that we were going to reach our target with Passports with Purpose this year. To raise $80,000 – $30,000 more than last year’s target – seemed way too ambitious given the economic climate. I was quite worried when we only reached the halfway point with less than [...]
That Roulla Yiacoumi is a clever cookie! She is a successful freelance technology journalist in Sydney and now she is also a baking entrepreneur. She has just launched her new business Cookie Constructions and is rushed off her feet with Christmas orders. For Christmas she is selling gingerbread houses in various sizes, in both a classic fairytale construction [...]
Australians were recently shocked by dramatic scenes of animal cruelty in footage shown in ABC’s Four Corners documentary on the cattle live export trade. Cattle are shipped from northern Australia to Indonesia where thousands were dying “slow and hideous deaths”. After the program aired and a public outcry, the federal Government banned live export of [...]
Travel around the world with food, from gelato in Rome to coffee in Hanoi. Food in Europe Italy. David Lebovitz trades Paris for Rome and tries to find out how much gelato he can eat in a day. Spain. Michelle Rowe from The Australian takes a gastronomical tour of Madrid. France. These days it’s easy [...]
If you crossed Willy Wonka, you could end up in a garbage chute or transformed into a giant blueberry. Right now, Nestlé could be wishing it had the same power. In the Roald Dahl classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the worst Wonka had to deal with was a handful of rude children and their [...]
I enjoyed this piece by Matt on Abstract Gourmet about rediscovering fettuccine carbonara years after boarding school nearly put him off for life. He writes: “The list of things that boarding school food turned me off was actually fairly extensive. Among them, steak diane, ham steaks with pineapple, lasagne, meat pies, hot dogs, and pretty [...]
The latest post in my series on sustainable food in partnership with Chris Perrin of Blog Well Done. It’s time to buy groceries. You are armed with a shopping list, cloth bags and the best of intentions to buy food that is sustainable in every way. But the organic apples in Whole Foods are from [...]
This is an exceptionally strong year for food blogs in the annual Weblog Awards, or Bloggies. There are no fewer than 17 food blogs in the finals. Yes, 17 – and some of them are nominated for multiple awards. Pretty impressive! Two years ago, there were 11 food blogs in the finals and no travel [...]
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