One of the most comforting and easy to prepare soups for the winter months is Moroccan Bessara. I first came across this delicious dish on my first trip to Morocco. I traversed the country with a young driver called Abdel 'adim who was an expert in street food and...
After quite a bit of thought and fiddling around, I finally came up with a violet ice-cream recipe. Not too much colour... very subtle flavour, most of it coming as an after-taste, like most perfumes (think truffle, jasmine... an ethereal waft that floats between...
Winter is officially here... the weather in Melbourne has been crisp but deliciously sunny - the leaves are still falling and the air is misty. Couldn't resist buying a bunch of the first white jonquils to appear and am loving their heady perfume. Piles of shiny...
I was visiting friends in the country last week. It was a grey day and the autumn colours were rendered even more brilliant for having been washed by the rain. The rain let up just before I arrived and a quick tour of the garden before lunch had me lusting after the...
Today is the Jewish festival of Purim commemorating the salvation from annihilation of the Jewish community of Persia thanks to their Jewish queen, Esther, around the 4th century BCE. The above link gives full details of the festival as well as the customs and foods...
It is mid March 2011 already and I haven't made a post since before Christmas last year.... the truth is that I have just been taking time out to reflect and spend more time with family and friends. I did, however, have a wonderful trip to Africa late in January... a...
Every year, Donati's Fine Meats in Carlton is named in food publications as the supplier of one of the best hams in Melbourne. People have a standing order year in year out and Leo Donati, pictured above, gets his production going for what is probably his busiest and...
FULLY ACCOMPANIED SPRING TOUR (UP TO 10 PARTICIPANTS) 26 MARCH - 9TH APRIL 2011 Join me from 26th March 2011 for an exclusive and exciting 14 day adventure in the Kingdom of Morocco. Early spring will have us touring through areas full of wild flowers. The cherry...
This year, Chanukah, the Jewish feast of lights began on the evening of 1st December or the 24th of the Hebrew month of Kislev. Chanukah means dedication, consecration or inauguration and celebrates the reconsecration of Holy Temple in Jerusalem in the second century...
I am missing the beauty of the date harvest in Morocco this year. The colours must be seen to be believed and are so stunningly captured by the French artist Jacques Majorelle in his 1921 portrayal of the Date Market in Marrakech, one of the few paintings I truly lust...
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