Category Archives: Food
Clubbing with Qantas
It was just like being at Wimbledon – cucumber sandwiches, champagne, and pictures of Andy Murray on every publication in sight. His triumph was not unlike my own, although mine was not 77 years in the making and I wasn’t … Continue reading
Icecream
There’s nothing like a New York heat wave to really know how good ice cream can taste. Being an all-season, all-occasion, any time of the day ice cream devotee, I don’t need an excuse to splurge in the frozen treat … Continue reading
BBQ Block Party
The 11th annual Barbecue Block Party brought pit masters from all over the country this weekend to Madison Park. Huge trailers pulled in from Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, the Carolinas and Tennessee, bringing enough smokers and supplies to feed the 200 … Continue reading
Harlem Shake
There’s a whole lot of shaking going on in Harlem these days. Well, shaking as per the cool moves made famous by Al B started in the eighties, but now there is a namesake that is catching a lot of … Continue reading
What a Ball!
The Pierre Hotel was an appropriately grand venue for the American Scandinavian Foundation Spring Ball on Friday night. The hotel was once home to Elizabeth Taylor, Al Pacino danced the tango in the Cotillion Room during filming of ‘The Scent of a … Continue reading
The Mighty Quinn
Barbecue American style is all about the rub, the smoking and to some extent the sauce, so I have never been a big fan. The wonderfully charred and simply seasoned Australian BBQ was always my preference. Once in Alabama we … Continue reading
Papabubble
A few years ago a couple of Sydney-siders moved to Melbourne after learning the sweet trade from an aging artisan on the north coast. Christopher King and Tommy Tang ( with a name like that you would just about have … Continue reading
Sweet rendezvous
Leading the well heeled crowd and the curious to Bergdorf’s yesterday was a leopardskin woman and her fashion conscious best friend. While they set the standard for the store’s buying demographic, anyone who slips though the spinning doors at the … Continue reading
St Patrick’s Day
It wouldn’t be St Patrick’s Day in New York without corn beef and cabbage with the fighting sixty-ninth! While much of the city is swamped by revelers reminiscent of New Years Eve, the Armory on Lexington Avenue becomes a focal … Continue reading
Back to school
There is something very delightful about a classroom that you enter voluntarily and find a menu on the board instead of lessons. R G Martin would be proud – although I’m a long way from the Ungarra Primary School, and … Continue reading
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