I grew up in Hamilton, New Zealand, a community bearing the curse of an inland city of an island nation. Growing up, the city council adopted the marketing slogan “Hamilton, where its happenning” though later on, having realised that this actually wasn’t the case Hamiltonians sought a new catch phrase.
Finally the powers that be […]

Today I broke a cardinal rule of bacon.
Having braved Suzhou’s torrential rain I returned home to change our of my then sopping suit, when I had the sudden and familiar pangs of bacon craving. Bacon hasn’t always been so easy to come by in China. When I first moved over here in 2005, bacon, as […]