Justine Lindsay, Chef De Partie, Rocket Food Design, London

Who do you work for and what does your job involve? I am a Chef De Par­tie at Rocket Food Design that caters for exclu­sive func­tions in and around Lon­don. I work with a team of chefs spe­cial­is­ing in design and exe­cu­tion of Canapes, French Cui­sine. A Chef de Par­tie is a chef com­mis­sioned to […]

A calculated confrontation

Don’t cause a scene. These were the unspo­ken words I grew up with. Cul­tured women don’t lose their deco­rum and tell shop keep­ers what they think of them. They main­tain their dig­nity and they leave. They remain in con­trol. Not this time. There was absolutely no fore­warn­ing. Noth­ing spec­tac­u­lar that led to the demise of […]

Marvels of Moreton Island

Tall sand dunes, miles of sandy beaches, crys­tal clear creeks and lagoons, coastal heath, rocky head­lands and abun­dant wild­flow­ers make More­ton Island a jewel in More­ton Bay, Queens­land, Aus­tralia. Pho­tos © JournoNews.

Art on Cairncross

Jane Caraffi grew up sur­rounded by books on art his­tory and recalls being “dragged” around Lon­don gal­leries while her school friends were off on excit­ing hol­i­days. It was only much later, on the other side of the world, that she came to fully share her father’s pas­sion for art and to open her own gallery, […]

World Press Photo 09

Not-to-be-missed exhi­bi­tion of the world’s top photojournalists’s pho­tographs rep­re­sent­ing 124 dif­fer­ent nations and cap­tur­ing cap­ti­vat­ing scenes from around the globe. The exhi­bi­tion is the show­case of the best press pho­tos for 2008 and is the lead­ing inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tion in press pho­tog­ra­phy. On dis­play are the cream of the crop – haunt­ing images of war, vio­lence and […]

Shopping with a Tween

  Shop­ping with a tween has me befud­dled. Per­haps what has me so con­fused and dazed is the fact that not so very long ago, I could go shop­ping for my lit­tle princess and she loved every­thing I pro­duced. She actu­ally wore it – even wore it out. My two sons were the same. No […]

Breath

Aus­tralian author, Tim Winton’s gift of writ­ing with clar­ity and sim­plic­ity imme­di­ately sweeps his reader into the story.

In Breath, even the brood­ing dark cover of boy in dusk surf aptly dic­tates the dark­ness that seems to per­me­ate through the entire novel. Nar­rated by ‘Pikelet’ – a young surfer, it tells the story of his some­times tor­tured life story – of the peaks and troughs that come with adolescence.

The Red Tent

An imag­i­na­tive, com­pelling story set in ancient Mesopotamia, Canaan and Egypt, offers read­ers a rare insight into life as a bib­li­cal woman—in par­tic­u­lar, Dinah, only daugh­ter of Jacob. While the author, Anita Dia­mant main­tains her inter­pre­ta­tion is purely fic­tional (food sounded delec­table), she has clearly researched her topic with great detail and there are fas­ci­nat­ing and […]

Alive in South Africa

Alive! The word pops into my head as we enter Johannesburg’s Oliver Tambo Air­port. Ironic really, isn’t it, for a coun­try with one of the high­est crime rates in the world. Yet I feel it. Sense it. Am reminded of a friend who says he comes alive every time he returns – feels bor­ing, bland and dis­con­nected for weeks in his new coun­try, Aus­tralia every time he goes back.

Leading a Blonde Astray

I took my dog for a walk this morn­ing. I snuck out the back way, through the bush and along the fire track. I was rather hop­ing to avoid Slater. Slater is the neigh­bour­hood vagabond. We live in a pic­turesque lit­tle enclave where most prop­er­ties ram­ble into each other with­out the con­cern of fences. This is not sen­si­ble sub­ur­bia, neatly fenced and gated where the neigh­bour­hood dogs are restricted to their allot­ted area. In spite of the gen­eral lack of con­fines, how­ever, most local dogs stay on their own turf and have no inter­est in roam­ing fur­ther than the post­box at the end of a rather long dri­ve­way. Slater has changed all that.