Thanks to my good mate Jim Jenkins for this edition's pic - a delightful mural on a Marrakesh wall bringing welcome relief to reading about Insectageddon, a noise-cancelling ramen fork (truly!) and that clearly no reviewer in Australia was considered 'anthropological' enough to tbe the NYT's Australia 'dining critic'. Besha Rodell Is the New …
Diggings 19 October 2017
Pic: Brickfields quietly and tastily counters the marriage equality naysayers worried that that cake makers won't be able to deny wedding cakes to LGBTIQ couples if the law is changed. My eldest has flown the nest – I feel his absence in the leftovers ‘Restraint just isn’t a skill I ever really wanted to …
A mulligatawny miscellany: Occasioned by discussion at a colonial dinner prepared by Charmaine O’brien Paul van Reyk (Oct 2017) K.T. Achaya, in his magisterial A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food cites begins his discussion of mulligatawny with this delightful quote from Hobson Jobson Vol 2, (1886): ‘A British prisoner of Hyder Ali in AD 1784 sang mournfully: …
Diggings 12 October 2017
Loved and loathed? How the pie floater became a South Australian gastronomic icon ‘The pie floater is as South Australian as frog cakes, Haigh's and Coopers. Once the staple of the late night (and often bleary-eyed) reveller, it has forged its place in the state's history and earned a spot with the National Trust as …
