Month: October 2005

journalism

In The Black: On the (high) rise

Only a short time ago the Australian commercial property sector was looking rather off-colour, but now for the first time in four years demand for office space is on the up. From In The Black October 2005.

journalism

The Australian: Healthy returns

RUNNING a day spa is a bit like selling ice-cream. You need to sell a dream and you have to learn how to deal with the peaks and troughs of demand. From The Australian Entrepreneur September 30 2005.

Books

Italian Food by Elizabeth David

Illustration by Renato Guttuso from Italian Food Work is the enemy of blogging. I started by cookbook idea and haven’t touched my keyboard on the subject for weeks. Worse, two key books were left out of my original posts. First is Elizabeth David. For the uninitiated she was the Julia Child (or Margaret Fulton) of the UK (the second will follow tomorrow) While we Brits (I live in Australia now), were tucking into to meat and two veg she was […]