Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Feb 12, 13 • Culture, Food • 1 Comment »
Have you ever wondered why you can go pretty much anywhere in Australia and find Italian food, Chinese food, and probably Thai and Indian as well? Yet if you were looking for Filipino food, Serbian food or Tanzanian food you would have a hard time...
Feb 9, 12 • Culture, Food • 1 Comment »
Bringing food to one’s mouth is one of the most basic fundamental actions of human existence, but throughout history we have come up with various ways of doing it. KNIFE AND FORK While we tend to think of this as a traditional European way of...
Nov 14, 11 • Food • 1 Comment »
Imagine you were an Australian soldier in the 1940s, fighting the often brutal Japanese forces in World War 2. If you were able to look into a crystal ball at Australia in 2011, you’d no doubt be shocked to see the rate at which our office workers...
Sep 21, 11 • Food • No Comments »
Though I speak no other language fluently, I feel gaps in English keenly, and probably the word I most often reach for and find absent is the one for the fifth flavour. Conventionally, Western thought and the English language recognise only four...
Sep 20, 11 • Food • 8 Comments »
About 10 years back I developed a policy that governed what I ordered while eating out. I’ve eased up on it somewhat, yet it has served me well and has a sound basis in experience. It is this: Don’t order Asian food in any restaurant unless...
