The Gruen Transfer
On The Table – Tokyo Café AEON Mall II – Sen Sok City, Phnom Penh I’ve never been big on Mall restaurants, eateries or bars, the whole concept just seems like it’s all faux […]
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From Gnadenfrei to Marananga
Gnadenfrei ‘free by the grace of god’ Marananga ‘by my own two hands’ The Barossa Valley is one of Australia’s oldest and most celebrated wine regions, enjoying a history as rich and complex […]
The Exciseman
The Exciseman Whisky Bar, Singapore exciseman (British) noun plural -men A government official who collects excises and enforces the laws concerning them For over two hundred and fifty years, from the early 18th […]
Faces to the Rain
FACES TO THE RAIN Where are the poets in a world gone mad, The sonnets, stanzas and quatrains? Words are sharpest from the edge, Where is the caesura and refrain- In our desperation and despair? […]
Yarra Rising
The Rising Vineyard sits in the Christmas Hills between St. Andrews and Yarra Glen, so named for the emancipated convict David Christmas who managed to get himself lost in the region during the year […]
Modena Anima
The Po River basin is the food bowl of Italy, in its heart is the region of Emilia Romagna and it is here you will find ‘Il cibo di re e angeli’, (the food of […]
Natural History part 5. ‘The One Straw Revolution’ On Man and Nature
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau Masanobu Fukuoka (1913 –2008) was a Japanese farmer and philosopher, he was a trained microbiologist and agricultural scientist and after completing his education […]
Natural History Part 4. ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ On Reason and Nature
I noted with interest that a special 20th anniversary edition of John Ralston Saul’s jeremiad, ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ had been released, a book that provoked in me a great deal of thought when I first read […]