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 […]
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My mother’s new house in the green flecked paddocks of Berry has an orchard. At my sister’s place, down a thin rough road baby chickens have just hatched. It’s spring in their fields. On the other side of the world the leaves on my stoop have turned. It’s amber and gold underfoot and the air […]
Olympic fever has morphed into phase two over here. Just like the steeplechase (surely one of the more absurd events out there), we’ve covered some hurdles and trudged through some water. We’ve found a new place to live. We’ve thrown off the shackles of sickness. And now we’re really embracing the fact that our adopted […]
This is a cake inspired by tree changes. Tree Change; def: a colloquial term that refers to citified folks making a change, to live somewhere greener, quieter, usually surrounded by trees. There are tree changes afoot in my Australian clan. I’ve just spent the last few days down in Berry; a spectacularly beautiful part of […]
Does anyone ever eat at their own wedding? I’m coming to grips with the fact it was four years ago I picked out these flowers for my brideslaves. Four years ago that we smiled shyly like this. And four years ago that I wrote this about wedding food. There’s no pressure ok? You just have […]