When does cosy habit become a rut? This is something I’m ruminating on at the moment. We are shin deep in survival mode and food has become a standard rotation of comfort food basics. If this sounds like something that’s going on in your realm and you’re looking for a novel alternative to your default […]
Middle Eastern
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. So long as one of the things they’re busy with isn’t minding small people. Last Monday I had the first solid, solo day of work in 17 and a half months, thanks to Will’s debut at daycare. Every Monday he will now pass […]
I should practice a bit more of what I preach. I’ve been doing a swathe of radio interviews in Australia in the last week or so for the release of ‘A Suitcase and a Spatula‘. It’s been pretty entertaining trying to enact what I used to spend a lot of my previous life in PR […]
The film: The dish: The reason: Def: Zero Dark Thirty: Military terminology referring to 30 minutes past 12, or a time when it’s just darn dark outside. One might think these falafels are the perfect match for Kathryn Bigelow’s mysteriously titled filmic hunt for Osama because it takes exactly twelve and a half minutes to […]
The film: The dish: The reason: Tehran in November 1979 wasn’t a terrific place for six American diplomats to be hiding out in the Canadian embassy. Thank goodness for CIA operative Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) and ‘the best bad idea we have’. A phony science fiction film scouting mission and a cluster of fake Canadian […]