You only live once. This is what is ghost written in block font on the glass balcony of North Bondi Italian Food. When you’re bobbing up and down in the surf you can see emblazoned on the other side of the sand. Maybe it’s a cynical marketing ploy to convince you to spend $24 on […]
Travel
Most of our trips to Melbourne involve food and friends. This one did too. But it also included a little bucket list action for The Hungry One- something along the lines of 42.196 km run. His first, (and I secretly hope) his only marathon. Preparing for a marathon isn’t something for the faint hearted. Some […]
If madness and civility are two prongs of the Fat Duck fork, nostalgia is the third. Amongst the cutlery and Kangaroo paws on the table there’s also a little card, explaining Heston’s approach to nostalgic British cooking. It invites us to play along and leave behind a record of our own sensory cues, food memories […]
“But I don’t want to go among mad people”, Alice remarked.“Oh, you can’t help that”, said the Cat: “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here” * Some people think we’re mad. But simple maths and nursery […]
Relief, when it arrives at course 30, is in the form of a frozen pond. Just when I thought I could physically consume no more I’m faced with a shimmery lake of weakly flavoured ice. It’s been caught in a thin meniscus across the mouth of a bowl. Over the pond raw sugar and a […]