I always thought making cheese was really complicated… and I guess, well yes it is, how I had it in my mind… My idea of cheese making was perhaps a little more romanticised than it should be… cows grazing peacefully in the back paddock, me wearing my Heidi kit-out and milking my cow in the [...]
I am a huge fan of Anthony Capella and his fabulously charming foodie fables, The Food of Love, The Various Flavours of Coffee and The Empress of Ice Cream, all amongst my favourite foodie reads. So when I read that he had just released a new book, I didn’t even bother reading the blurb as I [...]
I have never been one for New Year’s resolutions, but with a new year about to begin, I always like to start it off in a positive light and then hope that I can maintain that ‘light’ right through until the end of the year. As the Christmas season would have it, I saw myself [...]
Now… I admit it… when it comes to shoes, I have little or no will power. The discovery of a hot pair of shoes will often leave me wanting… until I ultimately have. There have been many (read MANY) times I have found myself scouring shoe shops to find the ULTIMATE pair of hot heels [...]
Lovin’ this Melbourne based indie band… and nothing like a new album, Controller - British India to be re-commit my love. British India have been around since 2004 and their fourth album has fulfilled all expectations… as far as I am concerned these guys just keep getting better and better. It didn’t take me long [...]
I don’t know what it is that makes us connect with perfumes in the way that we do. Everyone has their own individual fragrance and personal reason for connecting with that fragrance. That connection may be a memory, a place, a person, or quite simply the fragrance… or superficially… the bottle or packaging. My favourite, [...]
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 [...]
