To honour three women who have died recently I decided to have a day doing ‘stuff’ in their memory.
Tag: food
Looking for Xmas Perfect
For years I have been looking for Xmas Perfect—the family Xmas portrayed in Enid Blyton storybooks, TV commercials, and American sitcoms. Continue reading “Looking for Xmas Perfect”
A spoken menu, spices and tagines.
1977. Lebanon. Hana Assafiri looks out of an aeroplane window. Twenty hours and eight thousand miles away is her new home- the place where she was born.
2016. Melbourne. Hana Assafiri’s attention is being pulled every which way. We are sitting in her cafe The Moroccan Deli-cacy and our conversation is punctuated by multiple interactions that Assafiri has with her staff, ‘Get those plates in please, it’s not pigeons food’, and ‘Can you fix that spice display please – doesn’t look right’.
The journey to now
We all come from somewhere else. You might have to go a few generations back, but we are all immigrants. Continue reading “The journey to now”
