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A challenge – sugarcane granita, jelly, cream.
When I arrived in Hanoi last year I was beaten. Exhausted by some recent hard travelling and more broken than I realised from the unpleasantness that came before. Life was clouded with uncertainty and nothing felt new. Everything was a challenge. As much fun as you can have visiting a city it is a totally [...]
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Peaches poached in Prosecco
Tomatoes, coriander, tortillas, a return to the com binh dan-style school lunch. Raging out at the injustice of work, teetering on the edge of saying too much of what I feel. Alone, but only marginally lonely. Tied to my computer (it was a very happy reunion). That is what my week looked like.
Friday afternoon I [...]
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Mango, Pomelo, Sago.
“You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way”. Bob Dylan, Mississippi.
Well, I came back. Back to a Hanoi that I was only too happy to leave 2 months ago. Much changed here in my absence, this city is speeding towards something like modernity, but my opinion of it remains unchanged. [...]
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Homemade Orecchiette
I feel as though I have missed out. Born to two food-apathetic Australian parents I’m bereft of a food culture. The food I ate growing up was all about freshness, seasonality and healthfulness, but with no deference to those things that I yearned for: tradition, technique and interest. Maybe this is one reason why I [...]
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Browned butter date loaf
Sometimes plans are well considered and made, executed to a tee and expectations are met. Other times spontaneity rules. Then there are the situations where everything happens by coincidence, this date loaf could be used as a case study for the outcomes of coincidence. No, the browned butter and sugar didn’t have an accidental collision [...]
