A friend of mine who works a teacher and mentor for teenagers often tells the following story about one of his students to illustrate the power education has overcoming conflict: With a few exemptions, all Israeli citizens aged over 18 are obligated to serve in the nation’s defence forces. So you can imagine the trouble when […]
“Stop slurping!” Carmen scolds at me. But it’s hard to stop this newly-found habit I picked up in Asia from creeping onto other parts of my culinary life. Asian food is of course starkly different in its use of flavours, ingredients and techniques compared to the Western stuff I usually eat back home in Australia. […]
Words by Dave, video by Carmen “The rain is coming on Thursday,” the café owner tells us. “Not long now.” Every evening in Hoi An dark clouds rumble up from the horizon and flash with electric friction. The air is charged with the promise of rain. And then nothing. The dry heat of Vietnam’s central coast […]
