Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
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” [...]
My mother-in-law rang my husband on Saturday to deliver this message: “Tell Caitlin the dress was beautiful but not as nice as hers.” I doubt very much that the new Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton as was, would be bothered by this highly biased declaration, but it made me smile. The royal wedding dress WAS [...]
I can’t believe August is nearly over already! Ever since I arrived in San Francisco, I’ve been devouring summer fruits, especially white nectarines and peaches. I’ll be sad when peach season is over, but I have a cunning plan to extend it a little further. I bought an entire box of organic white peaches for [...]
Today brings another bumper collection of links to great travel content on the web. I hope you enjoy it – let me know in the comments. If I link to you below, please pay it forward and give link love to someone else. Debates, trends & reflections Island caretaker. I was less than complimentary in [...]
Caitlin Fitzsimmons explores the coffee country of Nicaragua – the ‘land of lakes and volcanoes’. On the old coffee farms of Nicaragua, some things never change. The farmer, a cowboy hat on his head and a whip in hand, rides his horse. The giant wooden water wheels mill the ripe coffee cherries. The farm hands [...]
Goroka, Papua New Guinea; September 2007 After yesterday’s post on Borough Market in London, here is a market of a wholly different kind. This is the weekly market in Goroka in the Papua New Guinea Highlands. Papua New Guinea is a vast country with a tiny population – just 6.25 million people in an area [...]
Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore; March 2009 “Millac Maid. Tastes like fresh milk. Long life skimmed milk with non milk fat.” Hmm… Do you think this is what Michael Pollan means when he talks about the difference between food and edible food-like substances? I wonder what the non milk fat is? Vegetable oil, [...]
* Lao-Ocean Girl has a review of Star Chef restaurant in Seoul, Korea. It looks mouth-wateringly delicious. * I love the sound of these vanilla-poached quinces from Spittoon Extra. Best of all that the fruit was free! Here in the northern hemisphere it’s definitely the season for cooked fruit desserts – we had baked apples [...]
* Lydia from The Perfect Pantry presents the vanilla bean and shares a delicious looking pear and vanilla recipe. I’m loving the series – earlier it was rose petal risotto, which sounds amazing! * Antonia from Food, Glorious Food serves up chicken with ginger marmalade. It sounds great… though I think it would be even [...]
I’m pleased to be hosting the Carnival of Cities on The Gooseberry Fool for the first time. Since this is a food blog, I was especially keen for posts with a culinary connection and I wasn’t disappointed. I hope you enjoy this week’s menu. * Gray at SoloFriendly on great Thai restaurants in her hometown [...]
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