A number of years ago, a girlfriend gave me a book, Life of Pi, for my birthday. Written by Yann Martel, it was not a book, or author, that I had ever heard of, and reading the blurb, I felt it an unlikely that I would be interested in it, let alone really enjoy it. [...]
I hate to say it, but I have never really been that much of a fan of Chinese cuisine - Vietnamese, Thai and Japanese yes, but Chinese falls in the ‘not that inspiring’ department for me. I know that is not always true, but other than Peking duck, there is not a lot on a [...]
I have a little favourite place I go… while it is in actual fact a restaurant, for the purpose of this review, I am going to classify it as more of a café as it is in the context of a café that I find myself here so often… I am talking about Via Italia. [...]
Every now and then you come across something that while it is not something you would normally seek out, it is something that you undeniably connect with. This was the case with a documentary put together about Bill Cunningham called Bill Cunningham New York. Bill Cunningham would have to be one of the strangest but the [...]
It is strange to me how a movie like, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, can receive such mixed reviews. Some were loving it and others not. I? Yes, I loved it. It has everything that you expect of a retelling of such an epic tale. I think that is the key… read the book first [...]
