Gin A Tasting Course

Writing this book felt like starting my own version of Phileas Fogg’s adventure, setting off in his hot air balloon;

I grew up in an Italian family that, not unusually, put great import on food.

2020 was a year like no other.

I love Palestinian food. I probably love it more than any other cuisine.

I have been a child and adolescent psychologist for more than three decades and there is no doubt that things are not going swimmingly in terms of young people’s mental health.

Miriam gave things to Mokhtar.

I had one of my best and one of my worst days in the kitchen all in the same week.

In 2019 I was invited to appear on ABC TV’s Australian Story to talk about my life.

Lampana, South Australia, January 1944

That was the summer they wore flip-flops.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the worst day of my life.

It’s Friday 11 November 2022, around 10 a.m., and I’m sitting in a makeshift broadcast booth set up in the spare bedroom on the top floor of my house in Woollahra.