Orange Juice & Ryvita

Food, politics, underemployment and the consumption of time and leisure

Category Meats Of The World

  • Appointment In Parramatta Road: El-Jannah Chicken

    PORT JACKSON, SYDNEY’S NATURAL HARBOUR, appears in all of the tourist brochures and Lonely Planet guides as the centre of the city, and its spiritual heart: but they are all wrong. The harbour has a rather good-looking Bridge (though the Gladesville Bridge, the Cinderella stepsister arch of the city, is always overlooked). It’s got a freaky egg-shaped warehouse for elitist affairs. I admit, the ferries are good fun, but what’s left? A Navy base or two, the Casino, a few bits of National Park, and the rest is pure pleasure garden for fund-manager multimillionnaires and shiny stockbrokers gorging on derivatives.

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  • Feijoada

    TAKE FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF cross-Atlantic commerce and movement of people, voluntary and otherwise, stir in massive amounts of energy, add misery, guns, money, Portuguese forts in unexpected places, and scorched earth everywhere else, leave it be for the benign neglect of time to assimilate everything, and you might just wind up with something as good as feijoada.

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