Friday, August 19, 2011

Taking Off To The Jungle























Everyone needs a break now and then and especially this  Old Dog . No promises. I'll not promise posting over my holidays  definitely not taking any phone calls or emails. but you never know folks. Meantime,  Cheers wherever you are!




Thursday, August 11, 2011

How To Open A Pandora Box


N
owadays there seems to be numerous number of food bloggers on the Net posting on other people’s cooked food with their running commentary and their water-marked snapshots. We view it with askance and turn a blind eye to them because it is probably excusable as you are merely in a virtual unreal world of your own making trying to make yourself heard. However when you are in a real world you are dealing with real people with real feelings and sentiments and attachments. Let me now relate to you. There was this wannabe food writer who mind you writes for a living and was trying freaking hard    to impress his new writing prowess and skill. He unfortunately took on a restaurant, which was virtually an old institution in Hobart an establishment that is so inextricably interwoven with the Community's  deep roots and connections that unexpectedly he ended up incurring a public wrath a furore so to speak for what he wrote. Quite rightly he should expect the unforseen outcry and backlash. What is more  he should bear the  consequence that followed for ridiculing and deriding a long standing iconic symbol to which a large number of Hobartian customers identify and attach their sentiments and loyalty. ....

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Tuesday, August 02, 2011

A Subject Of Newsworthiness




Cheers to  my niece Valerie and Milne! Just forgot what both of you differently specialise in  medical wise. Perhaps Bernadette or Sabrina can help to enlighten.  Sharing this thru Facebook. Both Maggie and Sabrina being members and close by can assist. Otherwise come to the site here to download. Google 'Dom's Teahouse'' first.

Gathering of Chinese Foochow Centenarian Geriatrics. The subject now is on self health and life longevity
No mortal sin food slipping off chopsticks
 So much to catch up.

Food that nobody eats