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.

It happened to people, this longing, emerging from an unknown void, grabbing the soul with a firm hand, the urge to simply let go and sink to the depths of the ocean.

The morning bell rang out across the sprawling grounds of St Luke’s College, stirring the prestigious Sydney boys’ school into its usual frenetic motion.

Nora couldn’t quite believe the moment had finally arrived.

The man glared at Lieutenant Jacob Banks with undisguised hostility, white-knuckled as he sat clutching the sides of a worn, iron- wood chest.

‘That’s not Spirited Away.’