Since beginning this blog – and the course at UTS – just three years ago, the world has changed dramatically. Back then, it seemed necessary to remind people that food was a political subject. Today, with 800 million people hungry and over one billion overweight, with food riots in the Middle East and Africa, and [...]
Archive for October, 2006
Writing About Food. What this blog is all about.
Posted in About on October 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
feast
Posted in 2006, Open Brief on October 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It was always cool and dark under my parent’s house. The sun would beat down on the yellow grass, flies droning lazily in the summer heat, but it was safe and sheltered in the pungent earthy space under the back stairs. Squatting Papua New Guinean style I would carefully mix the ingredients to the right [...]
Blue Eye Dragon
Posted in 2006, restaurant reviews on October 18, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Ever since becoming a Pyrmont dweller five years ago, I have been a faithful devotee to a lovely little Taiwanese eatery that I discovered in the area. Quietly tucked into a bottom corner of a block of units, Grain is a nondescript little joint from the outside, the shy neighbour of the noisy up-market pub [...]