⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 6 min readAt a cooking demonstration at the Adelaide Central Market, I asked the audience a simple question: how many of you prefer the fish you eat in a good restaurant to the fish you cook at home? Most hands went up. The audience was seated directly opposite the community kitchen, the noise and movement of the…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 3 min readThere is a debate that has persisted for decades about whether a glass is half empty or half full. It is meant to reveal character – optimist or pessimist, grateful or ungrateful. I’ve never found it particularly useful. The framing assumes the glass is the right size. Most of the time, it isn’t. Wine people…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readI was eleven or twelve, standing at the Rotto ferry jetty in mid-to late afternoon with half dozen bags of freshly filleted herring and a separate bag of ice to keep them cold. The day trippers were loading up for the crossing back to Perth, and we’d worked out early that departing visitors were reliably…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readI’ve been thinking about how the French approach a fish market. Not the romanticised version you see on cooking shows, but the practical reality: at a good Marché, you don’t just buy fish – you have a conversation first. The vendor wants to know what you’re planning. Baking or grilling? A soup, or something to…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 7 min readSpend enough time working with precision tools and you begin to understand something that doesn’t get said often enough: a tool’s value isn’t in its presence, it’s in what it allows you to do reliably. In dental technology, I worked with instruments that could do a specific job and nothing else – a margin trimmer…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 3 min readPicture the Grand Canyon at sunrise. You’re standing at the rim, looking down into that vast carved space. The canyon itself – that absence, that void – defines everything. The rim is your boundary, the edge where solid ground meets open air. Step beyond it, and there’s nothing to hold you. That’s how I learnt…
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 4 min readWith a handful of thoughtfully chosen utensils, it’s possible to bake everything from crusty artisan loaves to delicate laminated pastry, confidently and consistently. Whether you’re working on a weeknight loaf or a special weekend tart, the key lies in technique, temperature control, and the right tools for the job – not in crowding your drawers with clutter.
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readI was reading about Shokunin recently – the Japanese concept of craftspeople who dedicate themselves to perfecting their technique through patient, deliberate practice. A sushi apprentice might spend three years learning to cook rice properly before being permitted to touch fish.
⏱️ Enjoy with your favourite beverage | 5 min readIn 1981, three Army utensils positioned over the heart became the catalyst for a profound change in my life. This is the story of sliding door moments – from the Armoured Corps to dentistry to discovering my true passion in food and photography.
