Posts by Gareth
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This spring, I be mainly doing trees. #1: the fig
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Hard News: The crybaby philosopher, in reply to Lisa Black,
Mr Whyte is also a climate change denier. And a piss-poor one, at that.
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Feed: A scientist researches restaurants, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
We're booked in to Roots a couple of weeks hence. Sending them some truffles today... ;-)
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Feed: A scientist researches restaurants, in reply to JacksonP,
Cocoro buy my truffles, so I'm glad they're being recommended. So do Orphan's Kitchen, and I've heard very good things about them.
In Christchurch, top joint for cheap'n'cheerful has to be The Bodhi Tree. As good as ever in their post-quake Ilam Rd home, I can report that a great three course meal with a very large selection of dishes set a group of 8 of us back $85 per couple (we took our own wine, so the bill included corkage).
Kinji does very good and affordable Japanese, and Joyful in Riccarton is still the best Chinese (and cheap too) despite some flash new competition.
At the top end, I can strongly recommend Jonny Schwass's Harlequin Public House. Jonny and new(ish) head chef Simon Levy are producing seriously good food that doesn't cost a fortune.
I haven't made it over the hill to Lyttleton and Giulio Sturlo's Roots restaurant, but I'm really looking forward to a trip soon.
(But both the last two places use my truffles, so I could be a tad biased...)
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I very rarely get the opportunity to cook for one, but should there be one in the near future it will certainly involve Cumberland sausage (from The Traiteur) and bacon. Both of these items are off the multi-serve agenda since SWMBO encountered a robot gallbladder removal machine.
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Feed: My Life in Curry, in reply to Stephen Doyle,
Blimey! The Moti Mahal in Oxford: scene of many student dinners when I were a lad. Flock wallpaper, the works. I was in Oxford three years ago, but didn't think to check, though I did look down Boulter Street, where I lived for the first half of 1975.
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Feed: Grandpa's Kitchen, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Aaah, Viv!
Barbed wire bum baby, be like me
Neither of my grandfathers cooked, but one gardened. And I can't resist offering this picture (taken by my father in 1976, I think) of my grandmother's kitchen. This was the back room - more of an outhouse, really - of a tiny terraced house in a village on the outskirts of Llanelli, in Welsh-speaking Wales.
My grandmother is on the right, Aunty Ansi is washing up, and my mum sports the tea towel. From that little room all manner of good meals would flow. The fridge sits on top of the bath, which was a new addition at the time. I was more used to the tin bath in front of a hot coal fire when I was small.
The garden was long and thin. At the far end, chooks pecked around the battered pine tree that had been planted after my first Christmas in 1954. I can't remember what else was growing, beyond roses and mint and blackcurrants, of which my mother's family was inordinately fond. My great-grandmother's house in town had a tiny garden, large enough only for the coal shed and two blackcurrant bushes. I still look forward to the first blackcurrant tart of summer, and borrow my mother's pie dish, which she got from her mother, and so on back through the generations.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Moz,
Personally, I prefer to travel infrequently and stay for extended periods. Obviously I think everyone should do that :)
I suspect that the biggest impact of carbon-constrained travel on NZ (and anywhere where fast trains don't go/aren't built) will be on speed. Fast air travel will be expensive, slow air/sea travel cheaper. The tourist market will contract to people coming here for extended periods - backpackers at one of the market, gourmet travellers at the other - but the "two weeks to see NZ" trip will only be feasible for the wealthy.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to david kinniburgh,
I have a bit of a go at that. The Herald failed to notice that Moore got excoriated in the same paper at the same time...
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to Gareth,
Bugger: ...Roughan talking about "sensibly relaxed" govt policy re CC
