Category Archives: vegetarian
Discovering a love for omelettes
It’s sad-o’clock on Sunday afternoon, I’m drinking iced coffee and thinking about omelettes. In fact, omelettes have been on my mind since Friday lunchtime, when the thought popped up unsought and baseless and unshakeable. I cancelled my plans and instead had a divine Elizabeth David style evening, on omelette and a glass of wine. Korean [...]
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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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Egg, tortilla, salsa.
I came to Hanoi not because I like Vietnamese food but because it was the best option for me at the time. Friends in Australia were jealous of all the amazing food I’d have easy and inexpensive access to, something that I was excited about after the wallet emptying doldrum that is Sydney. Delicious, cheap [...]
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Cabbage Salad
The first time I ever came to Vietnam, incidentally also the first time I ever left Australia, I followed all the rules for eating in the developing world. You know, If you can’t boil it, fry it or peel it, don’t eat it, otherwise known as the first commandment of travel. I’m haunted by images of [...]
Carrots, Moroccan Style
Grocery shopping in Hanoi requires determination, smarts and discipline. Meat, fruits and vegetables are best bought fresh at markets that dot the city. Unfortunately I have to cross a highway to get to my closest market (insane traffic) but in a side street near my school a ladies set stalls up morning and night. Eggs, [...]
