My mother was an Orthodox Jew, and the food she made at home was bland and overcooked, especially the vegetables. The long-broiled steaks and livers and pasty potatoes and mammaliga (corn meal mush) were no match for the crisp, tasty meat and bright green vegetables I knew from eating with Chinese folks at restaurants in [...]
Stop organisingIsabel Choat, travel editorIt is natural when you have only two precious weeks of holiday to want to squeeze in as much as possible. I’m as bad as the next obsessive planner - poring over Lonely Planet or Footprint or Bradt or Rough Guide; marking sites I want to see with a rainbow of [...]
The person who likely knows more, Trepp’s 46-year-old boyfriend, Stephen David Royds, made a cryptic statement from jail, where he’s being held on $1 million bail on felony drug charges and a warrant from a 2002 conviction for selling cocaine.Authorities have not said whether they will prosecute Royds for keeping her body or not reporting [...]
Melbourne designer Melma Hamersfeld made a staggering global success %26mdash; 600 stockists at last count %26mdash; out of her brand Metalicus, established in 1992 and based on thin, stretchy, stocking fabric fashions that can be worn alone or as foundation blocks under other garments.
Yesterdays stretched cherry frock was a fair metaphor for Metalicuss past and [...]
AS GIMMICKS go, the cherry-red 40-metre “frock” worn by eight
models at a Melbourne Fashion Festival show at Alto, in the city’s
elegant GPO shopping complex, yesterday was quite a cracker. But it
wasn’t far from reality either.
Melbourne designer Melma Hamersfeld made a staggering global
success %26#151; 600 stockists at last count %26#151; out of her brand
Metalicus, established in [...]
The Trois Valles, encompassing the resorts of Mribel, Courchevel, Val Thorens and five more, famously boasts the world’s largest ski area, with more than 600km of runs. But its reputation for food lags far behind. Most skiers make do with spaghetti bolognese, croque [...]
Bed for the nightAs a writer, you can tell how your career is going by which hotel your publisher puts you in. It is terrible to go from the Four Seasons to Motel 6. I haven’t had that happen - yet. If you [...]
On the night train from Delhi to Kolkata, trying to persuade myself to sleep, I started to count the Indian railway journeys I’d made. I reached 100 or so and then gave up. So many journeys, so many early-morning cigarettes smoked over tea [...]
Besides cutting costs, companies that sell the e-menu argue the bytes-for-bites approach has a novelty value that can lure younger customers, and boost revenues as tantalising photographs of succulent steaks and gooey desserts tempt diners to order more.
It also could extend the TV dinner. How about a computer-game dinner?
The idea may be only the latest [...]
