Some fuss (read: calculated publicity drive) over this report about an Australian Masterchef contestant who declined to address the Dalai Lama as ‘Your Holiness’, instead preferring something like ‘Dalai’. (Apparently the Dalai Lama is not a guest ‘judge’, perhaps he’s going to give advice about how each dish serves to advance or hinder the path …

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Apart from the variability of the coffee-ish flavoured beverages available at the cafes which adjoin petrol stations on the high-ways, a major disappointment is the state of the cake cabinets. And I blame the cane-toad of the cake cabinet: the muffin. Unless the establishment has some sort of bakery, muffins have come to dominate proceedings. …

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