Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Hunting...for Turkish Bread

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Image: Author's own, taken in Bushwick (Brooklyn) in May 2016 It is a hot day in Sydney and I am swimming in literature and gentr...
Thursday, 7 July 2016

Men who Cook, and Women who Explore

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I have usually gone out with men who are better cooks than me. This is not in any way a reflection on my culinary skills (which are compete...
Thursday, 30 June 2016

On Eating to Become More than Who You Are

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My 'research' yesterday consisted of catching up on the latest episode of 'Poh and Co.' on SBS on Demand, continuing my vie...
Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Avocado Toast as the Fabric of Life: Musings on Comfort, Discomfort and Food Television

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After watching a rather emotionally intense film on a long-haul flight, I decide to switch to an episode of Simply Nigella . It reminds me...
Wednesday, 2 March 2016

From Student Laksa to Pho with Free-range Chicken

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A few days ago, I cooked laksa for some friends at my new apartment in Marrickville, in Sydney’s inner west. This was the 8th time I had mo...
Thursday, 21 January 2016

In the Country of Crabb and Kebab

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Unless you were living under a proverbial rock called commercial television in Australia these past few months, you are probably aware of t...
Sunday, 12 July 2015

Re-learning

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Today I sucked on a mango seedling and asked my mother for instructions on how I did it as a child I wondered how I had forgotten or p...
Sunday, 26 April 2015

The Gods of Big Things: Cities, Storms and the Palpable Loneliness of Migration

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I like cities. I like writing about them, wandering through them, taking photos of banal moments in them. A busker in the mall here, a refl...
Saturday, 28 February 2015

Coconuts and Bananas: Cosmopolitan or Deluded?

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On Australia Day (which also happens to be India's Republic Day), I interviewed my friend, the maverick writer and radio presenter Suni...
Friday, 9 January 2015

Becoming Cosmopolitan - The Citizenship Ceremony for the 21st Century?

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On the 29th of October 2014, no country was led into Tagore's 'Heaven of Freedom' , but I did become a naturalised citizen of A...