Category Archive: eating out

134 – Morning jolt

134 – Morning jolt

This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of …

 

130 – Food for the soul

130 – Food for the soul

One of the ultimate comfort foods as far as I am concerned is soup – especially my mama’s ‘juha od kokos’ (a clear homemade chicken …

 

116 – Merry Christmas

116 – Merry Christmas

Sretan Bozic Merry Christmas Meri Kirihimete Wesolych Swiat Glædelig Jul 6.00am -  Christmas day began. 7.30am – Breakfast with Lynsey, Mira and Damian. 8.00am – We started to share out our presents …

 

111 – Retail in the Raw

111 – Retail in the Raw

There’s been open air markets here in Wellington probably since the first humans arrived. More recently – in the last couple of years – as …

 

107 – Retro food

107 – Retro food

Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what’s for lunch. – Orson Welles If I am to believe what I read then it would …

 

096 – Sinterklaas and friends

096 – Sinterklaas and friends

There is real magic in each person you know, and that magic is multiplied by the people your people know (and so on). All that …

 

095 – Pick up the prescription

095 – Pick up the prescription

My friend Alison emailed me today offering a prescription from a certain dispensary up town a little. The email arrived as I was having one …

 

091 – Food for thought

091 – Food for thought

There’s always the daily crisis meeting – this is something that makes the UN, Global Summits, and Copenhagen Conference pale into insignificance – what shall …

 

076 – Nuffin beats muffins

076 – Nuffin beats muffins

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. — Earl Gray Stevens In our house …

 

076 – Banana man

076 – Banana man

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in …