Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
A word of warning before you visit Cyril’s Fine Foods – Cyril may charm you into buying more of his fine foods than you intended. If you are into food and you happen to be in the Haymarket area, I definitely recommend you poke your head in and take a look. The store is on [...]
It is a little ridiculous that it took an American living in Paris to point me in the direction of a good lamington in Sydney but that’s what happened. A lamington is a quintessentially Australian cake. In the US, Girl Scouts sell Girl Scout cookies. In Australia, Girl Guides or school kids have “lamington drives” [...]
Call me a food geek but I really enjoy visiting local farmers markets when I’m on holiday. It feel I am getting to know a place when I see what types of produce are grown and made nearby. It’s also fascinating to see what rules the market goes by. Some markets are citified foodie destinations [...]
Our trip to Bordeaux was well planned in every respect, except one: We flew instead of catching the train and this meant we couldn’t buy wine to take home. It was April 2007 and we were living in London. The airlines had recently imposed the ban on carrying liquids on board the flight. As we [...]
I didn’t like dates when I was a kid. The flavour was okay but the texture bothered me; the way the dry skin lifted and separated from the date flesh reminded me of cockroach wings. I would happily eat my mother’s famous date and sago pudding but I would never eat whole dates. I now [...]
Short review: We suffered appalling service and the food was poor value. Not recommended. Full review: The Courtyard Cafe Da Capo has two things going for it. The main benefit is the pretty courtyard setting at the back of the Sydney Hospital on Macquarie St. The spot is a bit of a sun trap until [...]
I’m reading a book called Sweet Poison: Why Sugar is Making Us Fat. It’s about how over consumption of sugar is to blame for the obesity epidemic and a whole host of other health problems including heart disease and cancer. The specific culprit is fructose - one of the components of sucrose or common table sugar [...]
Sometimes I fantasise that my husband and I will move to Hobart in Tasmania and open a macaron shop. I’m sure this will never happen. Even if I could get my husband on board with moving to Hobart, the truth is that I have never made a macaron in my life. And while macarons seem [...]
Hot chicken is to Nashville what sourdough is to San Francisco or shrimp and grits are to Charleston. This is a guest post from Rebecca Crump, a Nashville-based writer who blogs about her life and what she’s cooking at EzraPoundCake.com. The first time we took my husband’s cousin to Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, I warned him. [...]
Saturday was a day of spontaneity and serendipity. I haven’t had so much fun for ages! My husband and I decided to drive to Pescadero for lunch at Duartes Tavern. We’d been there once before on our Highway 1 road trip with my in-laws last year. Pescadero struck me as a charming town but we [...]
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