Cloudberries, Venezia & Piri Piri starfish...
By on December 23, 2008 7:00 AM
Today I had a couple of hours to myself so I decided to pop into town and get the last couple of Christmas presents. I was on a specific mission and needed to get presents for two of my young nephews. Hence, after walking around aimlessly for an hour and a half around various toy departments picking up and then putting down assorted bits of Thomas, Bob and John Deere paraphernalia I suddenly felt quite overwhelmed by the task at hand and the growing number of people around me doing the exact same thing!
What was I thinking? Where had my common sense gone and what about my eCommerce prowess? As I fought my way past three hundred or so moaning children and some very frustrated parents stuck in an unmoving queue waiting to get a look in with Santa, I found myself in need of both fresh air and space. Forget the Christmas cheer, Santa's helpers and the string quartet playing carols in a lame attempt to lull shoppers into a false sense of consumer peace. I needed to get on an escalator and get out of there!
Moments later I found myself quite unapologetically at 'Food Glorious Food' in David Jones. Almost instantaneously my breathing began to regulate and my head began to clear. What about the Christmas presents for the nephews? Blame the several hundred whining children for a start! That was enough to frazzle anyone's concentration and dampen ones joyful shopping mood. Not to worry boys your aunt will get things sorted in a jiffy with a little help from eBay!
At any rate, I was quite pleased to find in amongst all the other gourmet finds that David Jones have finally decided (quite sensibly I might add) to put a Cook Book section in Food Glorious Food. Ah - what better way to calm ones nerves then to flick through the latest cook book releases with a glass of wine and a wedge of taleggio? I had a quick flick through Jane Webster's new book 'At my French table' and Christine Manfield's 'Fire - A World of Flavour' before settling on Tessa Kiros' sumptuous book called 'Venezia' (it was marked down by 30%).
Image source - Tessa Kiros 'VENEZIA' (2008).
I do love young Tessa's books as they are a visual feast and such a charming read, and her latest release is no exception. I was so there, I mean there in Venice before I had even opened the book. Tessa in her usual distinguished style states on the back cover - 'as many times as I went out was as many times as I got lost. But I was never lost. I was always somewhere in Venice'.
Image source - Tessa Kiros 'VENEZIA' (2008).
So tonight after I put the kids to bed and put behind me the days awful shopping experience I will sit back with my 'Pomegranate alla Salute' in hand my copy of Venezia in the other and 'let my thoughts float out over the ripples of the water before they come back and settle into me again'.
Cin Cin!
What was I thinking? Where had my common sense gone and what about my eCommerce prowess? As I fought my way past three hundred or so moaning children and some very frustrated parents stuck in an unmoving queue waiting to get a look in with Santa, I found myself in need of both fresh air and space. Forget the Christmas cheer, Santa's helpers and the string quartet playing carols in a lame attempt to lull shoppers into a false sense of consumer peace. I needed to get on an escalator and get out of there!
Moments later I found myself quite unapologetically at 'Food Glorious Food' in David Jones. Almost instantaneously my breathing began to regulate and my head began to clear. What about the Christmas presents for the nephews? Blame the several hundred whining children for a start! That was enough to frazzle anyone's concentration and dampen ones joyful shopping mood. Not to worry boys your aunt will get things sorted in a jiffy with a little help from eBay!
At any rate, I was quite pleased to find in amongst all the other gourmet finds that David Jones have finally decided (quite sensibly I might add) to put a Cook Book section in Food Glorious Food. Ah - what better way to calm ones nerves then to flick through the latest cook book releases with a glass of wine and a wedge of taleggio? I had a quick flick through Jane Webster's new book 'At my French table' and Christine Manfield's 'Fire - A World of Flavour' before settling on Tessa Kiros' sumptuous book called 'Venezia' (it was marked down by 30%).
Image source - Tessa Kiros 'VENEZIA' (2008).
I do love young Tessa's books as they are a visual feast and such a charming read, and her latest release is no exception. I was so there, I mean there in Venice before I had even opened the book. Tessa in her usual distinguished style states on the back cover - 'as many times as I went out was as many times as I got lost. But I was never lost. I was always somewhere in Venice'. Image source - Tessa Kiros 'VENEZIA' (2008).
So tonight after I put the kids to bed and put behind me the days awful shopping experience I will sit back with my 'Pomegranate alla Salute' in hand my copy of Venezia in the other and 'let my thoughts float out over the ripples of the water before they come back and settle into me again'.Cin Cin!
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