Contains Tobacco Depictions

Accustomed as I am to the verbal tomfoolery of streaming services labeling, nevertheless, I was astonished to recently see a descriptor for The Bear, an American television series with drama, comedy and cooking set in a restaurant in Chicago (on Disney+). We are alerted that it ‘contains tobacco depictions’. This is a warning to viewers […]

The year of Marley Spoon

Here in Australia, as well as elsewhere in the world, the pandemic brought changes to our daily routines. As we struggled with the strangeness of it all, it was also a time for making creative changes to routines that now were anything but routine. How we shopped for food and dealt with meal making was […]