
I’ll never forget the first time I saw octopuses hanging out to dry. They were strung along a pole outside a taverna on the Greek island of Spetses – and I walked slap-bang into them! Large and knobbly with long dangling tentacles, they were hard to miss and my exclamations of surprise and horror greatly [...]

It wasn’t until I lived in Italy that I realised the value of having my own pot of basil. I’d gone to Perugia to study the language and was living with a typical Italian family. Lunch was the main meal of the day during that long hot summer (followed by a siesta) and a substantial [...]

Sydney’s Chinatown offers something for every budget and every tastebud. At the bustling Dixon House Food Court, you’ll find a range of reasonably priced Asian dishes, representing the cuisines of northern China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. Here, the most popular dish is the sizzling beef, ginger and shallot hot plate for $8.50, also [...]