Something guaranteed to make me a nervous cook is when I have the temerity to attempt something from another culinary tradition – I can feel the astral plane opening up and all the mothers of preceding generations start to watch me to see if I am doing it right, lol!! Of course, for some things…
Category: Cookspace
Cavity or black hole?
There are time when feeding a teenage boy feels like a bit like the labours of Sisyphus – cursed to carry water in a sieve – it might be more fun, but it seems every bit as endless! I swear that our elder son, Alan, actually had not so much a cavity from hunger as…
What’s with the spoons?
Rummaging around in my kitchen, a fellow cooking enthusiast might well notice that there is pretty much a spoon for every occasion. Big spoons, little spoons, cooking spoons, eating spoons – you name I probably have one of it. A whole range of them have come back to me via the travels of friends, family…
Workplace of Carolyn Evans, the chief cook & bottle washer
Hello from Coogee in Sydney, Australia, from someone fortunate to live in a beachside suburb where other people go for their holidays. Though I’m ‘not from around here’, I’ve lived in Coogee for over 20 years in a townhouse unit that is a modern version of a traditional terrace house, a small footprint layout on three…
