Who’d have thought that the study of food would have such heavy weight academic pretensions? It’s been a sobering start to the latest unit in my course after being thrown knee deep in the Mythologies of 20th century French philosopher Barthes. His... 
It sometimes feels like an exhausting uphill battle deciding what to eat.  Taking wheat, sugar and high GI carbohydrates from your diet banishes pretty much any form of ready to eat snack or café food.  It’s not like you starve though.  Fruit, nuts, cheese,... 
For two weeks in August, Wellington turns on a gastronomic feast that tests the most gluttonous among us. Â Born five years ago to boost restaurant trade during the rump of winter, Wellington on a Plate has turned the capital’s winter dining scene into a... Like Wednesday’s, the winter solstice is that hump day that makes the winter bearable. Â It’s the metaphorical permission you need to embrace winter because you know that summer is on its way once again. Â As if to celebrate midwinter, nature threw New... It’s just typical of me to unpack my photography muse from its long vacation just as we’re headlong towards winter when the light is less forgiving to a photographer. Â It’s like being all dressed up with nowhere to go. I have all these ideas... 
