– With Dr Susan Merrell
It was a few years back that I was there … So what was I doing at a health retreat? No alcohol, no caffeine, no fatty foods for five whole days – sounds like hell doesn’t it? It was anything but. By way of explanation: I married a modern-day, male version of Typhoid Mary – […]
Ever seen a white-flowering Jacaranda tree? There’s one in Sydney’s Botanic Gardens (Location C). It’s at the end of a line of colour that starts with a blazing red Illawarra Flame Tree, followed by a huge Jacaranda of the purple-flowering variety and in its lee a spreading Michelia with creamy white blossoms as large as […]
Gin and tonic is widely considered to be the most popular cocktail globally – casually abbreviated to G & T, it’s ever so chic and beloved of both genders, but especially the ladies. It’s the Spanish though, who have first taken the consumption of gin and tonic to another level – followed closely by the […]
The eighteenth century epicurean and food writer, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin called them ‘diamonds of the kitchen’ and given that nowadays their cost can exceed $2500 per kilo, it’s an apt description. Truffles are edible, mushroom-like tubers that grow on the roots of trees – notably the Oak, Birch, hazelnut, pine and poplar tree – they […]
It’s the next best thing to sliced bread, according to the hype – or at least the next big thing after the discovery of the benefits of omega 3 fatty acids. We’re talking hydrolysed, ingestible collagen that is essentially a beauty treatment (but not only) that works from the inside out, effectively slowing (and repairing) […]
