As I write this post it is snowing here in Jerusalem… Jerusalem, Israel. Photo credit The BFD. Jerusalem is a wondrous sight on a regular day. When blanketed white she takes on a mantle of regality, serenity, for a moment snuffing out the ever-present tension; but only for a moment.
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Guacamole and Tomato Salsa. Photo credit The BFD. The peoples of Mexico can find their origins in the long-extinct Mayans. Mayan mini-empires extending over millennia reached their cultural and economic zenith a very long time ago. These city-state empires began their decline in the 7th-8th centuries AD, weakened through endless
Michelle Wheeler particle.scitech.org.au Michelle is a former science and environment reporter for The West Australian. Her work has seen her visit a snake-infested island dubbed the most dangerous in the world, test great white shark detectors in a tinny and meet isolated tribes in the Malaysian jungle.
When animated comedy Over the Hedge wanted to emblemise modern fast-food culture, it chose “the chip”. Granted, the chip in that instance was a corn chip, but a major plot device of the film is the protagonist’s obsession with a particular brand of potato chip. The origin of the
Vas is das? Kugel is another one of those long-cooking Sabbath dishes from the Jewish kitchen, combined with eggs and in some cases caramel, and overcooked. Kugel is more often dark brown in colour, compressed and squished in texture. At first glance kugel is wholly unappetising, to say the least,
Canapés seldom travel alone. An event that is worth one’s salt will have three to five different competing canapés offering a cornucopia of tastes, colours and textures. This week’s addition is a small phyllo pastry basket filled with a mushroom and tomato mix topped off with shaved parmigiano
You never know when the next cocktail party will appear on the calendar or when your better half without warning invites home a baker’s dozen of business colleagues or clients for drinks with a need for something a little more classy than salty chips and peanuts from the supermarket.
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I am, it must be said, something of a creature of habit. Even though I rarely use an alarm (the very thought literally keeps me awake at night), I wake at the same time nearly every day. Once up, my day follows a pretty set bibulous routine: a massive mug
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains… the little streams of alcohol Come trickling down the rocks Harry McClintock. Well, it wasn’t quite Heywire Mac’s vision of hobo paradise, nor Shane MacGowan’s dream vision of Brendan Behan, but a hiker in Hawaii recently discovered a literal river of
Pancakes are one of the oldest known foodstuffs, made from cereals in prehistoric societies. Pancakes were being flipped and consumed circa 4000 BC when ‘writing’ was in its embryonic stage and the Bronze Age was just kicking off. The pancake is a very diverse food made since forever all over
Hanukkah is the Jewish eight day winter time “Festival of Lights”. It is celebrated by a nightly lighting of candles, special prayers and the rather unhealthy tradition of eating fried foods. The festival celebrates the “miracle” that the oil in the lamp in the Jerusalem Temple lasted for eight days
Open Sesame Sesame has been cultivated by man for thousands of years, used as an oil, eaten as a sweet (halva), enjoyed as a dip (tehina), preferred as a crust on a tasty slice of pan-fried Atlantic bluefin tuna and appearing often at #12 as Crispy Sesame Chicken on your
Gareth Johnson Street Food Guy Gareth Johnson is the founder of Young Pioneer Tours, a published writer, and all-round entrepreneur. He enjoys street food, and encourage others to get paid to travel the world. Coati coffee is one of the many coffees that is derived from an animal eating coffee
It would seem that all things good and rewarding come packaged as a tort/torte. Tort law is there to redress a wrong done to a person and provide relief, something beneficial… while the German torte is there not only to provide relief and make a person feel great but
