A belated report on the A Taste of Slow Festival at the Abbotsford Convent a few weekends ago, now that I have found the cord for downloading photos from my camera. The last few photos of the bakery are from the first, temporary, opening for the Festival. The festival attracted 16,000 people, triple the [...]
I do like lasagna, a feature of a palindrome of some quality (“Go hang a salami; I’m a lasagna hog”), and the ultimate comfort food. Is it the quintessence of Italian cuisine though? Wikipedia says the recipe was published in England’s first cookbook and eaten in the English court of the 1300s and may have [...]
The Age’s Domain section’s featured suburb today is Clifton Hill. Like its neighbour Abbotsford, it is a small suburb. Amazingly enough, in the year to mid-August 2006, 10 people shelled out more than $700,000 to buy houses there, including 2 $1 million homes on the Esplanade. They recommend Flowers of Sorrento:
“Spensley Street, a [...]
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