Sadly during our stay on the Gold Coast on our holiday, the only partly sunny day we had was spent at Tropical Fruit World. Why is that sad? It’s not that it was a terrible experience or anything but we left feeling like we were trapped on a crappy tourist ride at Disneyland and it [...]
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Trapped at Tropical Fruit World
Posted in Australia, Drinks, Fruit, Tours, Travel, Tropical Fruit, tagged Babaco, Big Avocado, Black Sapote, Tropical Fruit World on September 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Eating Along Steve Irwin Way
Posted in Australia, Drinks, Fruit, Holidays, Travel, Tropical Fruit, tagged australia zoo, glasshouse mountains highway, lychee, noosa, pineapple crush, steve irwin way, sunshine coast on January 22, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A few years ago, we were on our way to Noosa, on the Sunshine Coast, and decided to take the scenic highway to get there. Back then it was called the “Glasshouse Mountains Highway” but they have since renamed it “Steve Irwin Way” since his death which is pretty apt since his Australia Zoo [...]
Baby Meal on Qantas Flights
Posted in Australia, Baby, Travel, tagged baby meal, domestic flights, Heinz purees, Qantas on January 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I know that many airlines offer a kid’s meal on some flights (mostly international) but there are probably not too many that do offer them on domestic routes both in Australia and elsewhere. Qantas Airlines is the only major carrier that still includes meals and drinks on their domestic flights within Australia and it has [...]
Best Onion Rings in Waikiki
Posted in American, Deep-Fried Food, Dessert, Hawaii, Restaurant, Travel, Veggies, tagged kona coffee ice cream, Lewers St, onion rings, Waikiki restaurants, Yard House on December 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Honestly, I have no idea how many places in Hawaii serve up onion rings but every time I go home, I crave the ONION RING TOWER at the Yard House (chain restaurant found in nine states) on Lewers St. in Waikiki and I think that it’s the best I’ve ever had. It comes with both [...]
Oxford Symposium 2008 – Vegetables
Posted in Symposiums, Television, Travel, United Kingdom, Veggies, tagged Academic Food Writing, Alan Davidson, Claudia Roden, Daikon, Elizabeth Andoh, Fuschia Dunlop, Oxford Symposium, Raymond Blanc, Sophie Coe, St. Katherine's College on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend, the 2009 Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery will be held at St. Catherine’s College in Oxford and I cannot be there. Instead, many of my friends will be there and I will hear all about it when they return. This year’s topic is on “Food & Language” and although I had an [...]
