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This blog is home to the stories of a Sydney born food writer, Victoria (Tori) Haschka. It’s the story of The Hungry One (the husband) and our mutual search for the best ways to eat, drink and be merry.

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If you’re not doing anything at lunch next Wedne If you’re not doing anything at lunch next Wednesday, make a cup of tea and jump onto the @simonschusterau Facebook page to have a chat with me and @maddiegenner journalist/radio producer/baker/book lover/mum extraordinaire/ woman I would 💯 live in a mummune with. (Sorry @marcfennell - your wife is in demand 😂). We’re going to chat about Grace and lots of other things. Some to be determined. Please feel free to send in some ideas! X
There are women I wrote Grace thinking about. A lo There are women I wrote Grace thinking about. A lot of them spent a good stretch of their youth wearing black watch tartan skirts. And one of them this morning sent me this. We went to a school which was a little like an adolescent Themyscira. We fought to get in those vaulted gates and then when we were there, were told to aim higher still. We were told we could be anything- we were hothoused to think we should- nay- had an obligation- to be everything. We owed it to our brains and our teachers and the women who came before. (Except nobody was telling the boys at the schools down the road that they needed to be ok with being a little less, to make some room at the table, spend some more time sweeping the floor). For so many it’s a daily game of chore-chicken. There are non negotiables in store. The truces are often hard won. Biology can be a bitch. And they are so tired of being the guardians of ‘the list’. Some of the most important kernels of Grace came from those women I went to school with; one I saw after decades when both of our kids were on adjacent swings by the beach, who after I asked how she was said; ‘do you want to have a real conversation or a fake conversation?’ More of this. It came from another who stood next to me when we beat the boys in the state debating finals, raised her first baby on her own and still offers to drop lasagnes to women when they are down. The same one who found time to read a novel in a day, message kind words while keeping a toddler at bay . A writer I respect the pants off said ‘Grace is an ode to the power of women.’ I live in hope. Ad Altiora.
When @sallyhepworth rates your book. 🥂🎉 I ha When @sallyhepworth rates your book. 🥂🎉 I have so loved seeing where people have found Grace out in the wild- from Tamworth to Melbourne, Berry to Perth. I am also LOVING the stories of people hiding from the kids and washing piles to sneak in some extra reading time. (She writes while having set the kids up with breakfast and having snuck back to bed with a cup of tea for a few minutes). 👌
The luckiest of ducks. A day of coffee and great w The luckiest of ducks. A day of coffee and great women and the loveliest messages, posts and deliveries, lunch of pink bubbles and pink fish, plotting with my beautiful publisher @cassandradibello and then ice cream and hunting for the book in some shops with the kids. A pinch-me kind of day, really. Thank you 😍
Happy book birthday to this beauty from @katriname Happy book birthday to this beauty from @katrinameynink ! Grace is very happy to be a book-twin with you. I can’t wait to get into all of these. Particularly pickles and hope and gnocchi. Yes, to all of this. Yes! 😍 Katrina is up to her brilliant stuff as always.
Thank you @whatssarahreadingnow for making Grace l Thank you @whatssarahreadingnow for making Grace look (and sound) so lovely. 😘🥂#graceunderpressure #publicationday
Happy ‘Grace’ day. I’m documenting a ‘not- Happy ‘Grace’ day. I’m documenting a ‘not-so-normal’ (but also very normal) day in the life over on stories to mark publication day of ‘Grace Under Pressure’. May your tea be drunk hot and you get at least one chat with a friend that makes you be grateful to have such wonderful comrades in the trenches. To everyone who has pre ordered, or sent me pictures of where they have already seen Grace in the wild- thank you! Xxx
Roast eggplant, cauliflower, fennel and red onion Roast eggplant, cauliflower, fennel and red onion with spinach, lamb and salsa verde. And some pink wine. Aka dinner. A big week. Evie’s recovering from her jabs (so important, non-negotiable, but she’s been known to have a febrile seizure or two and gets shaken up a bit by them, whereas Will just always rolled on - as she sings to me ‘all bodies are different’) add to that the first swimming carnival for Will tomorrow - and a book coming out. Early nights for all? 🤞🤞🤞
When @kobobooks names your book and the audiobook When @kobobooks names your book and the audiobook one of the best of the month 😍. Can’t wait for people to get their hands on these. Also VERY interested in seeing what sort of unsung domestic scut work the audio book keeps people entertained while doing; sorting clothes into the next sizes? Washing sodden sheets? Emptying lunchboxes? Unpacking groceries? Sneakily putting Peppa pig stickers on the cheaper, less sugar yoghurts in the hope the kids will eat them? Combing for nits? Scrubbing stains out of the sports shirts that someone had the bright idea to make pale yellow?Doing physio rehab? Potentially all of the above. 😘
Books are like babies; discuss. Aff; They both tak Books are like babies; discuss. Aff; They both take a long time to produce. They both involve more work than you imagined at the start. They both tend to wake you up overnight. They both keep you company when you’re doing very tedious errands. They give you something to talk about, but become self conscious about doing too much. They can both send you a little bonkers. There is great, profound joy when holding it finally in your hands. Neg; you will never get reported to services for leaving your draft novel in the car alone. A book will never pull a febrile seizure on you or be visited by the croup fairy. You can delete great swathes of a book with impunity and start again at any point. Books will never tell you a smoothie is disgusting and throw it on the floor. Books can’t hug you back. Thanks to my back and general life threshold there will never be a third child- but tmrw ‘Grace’ is due. I’m looking forward to a birth-day that doesn’t involve the ring of fire. 😂
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