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The Age
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
Five food news and events to fire up your winter travels
From regional food festivals to hotel dining, all the events travellers will want to savour this month and beyond. Carousing in Campania Luxury travel company Belmond has released its third cookbook, Campania: Recipes & Wanderings Across Italy's Polychromatic Coast, this time spotlighting the cuisine and culinary communities of Campania through a mix of technicolour travel photography, stories from regional suppliers and classic southern Italian recipes. Expect plenty of travel inspiration from the kitchens of Caruso, A Belmond Hotel, the brand's 11th century palace resort perched 350 metres above the Amalfi Coast. See Noosa's amped-up festival for foodies The four-day Noosa Eat and Drink Festival is back, and bigger than ever. This year's festival, from May 29 to June 1, includes the return of popular signature events such as the Arcadia Street Long Lunch and some fresh additions such as a new interactive cooking hub, celebrities versus chefs cooking battles, an expanded Festival Village and a new venture by chef Matt Golinski. See Where there's smoke, there's Fervor Chef Paul 'Yoda' Iskov worked in some of the world's best restaurants before founding Indigenous food pop-up, Fervor. Last year, the food collective took the concept to guests of The Ritz-Carlton, Perth for a degustation at Hearth restaurant, followed with a series of bespoke luxury food itineraries in remote parts of Western Australia. Now Iskov is teaming up with Hearth's chef de cuisine, Brian Cole, once again for a series of fire-driven dining events in June, October and November. See
Sydney Morning Herald
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Five food news and events to fire up your winter travels
From regional food festivals to hotel dining, all the events travellers will want to savour this month and beyond. Carousing in Campania Luxury travel company Belmond has released its third cookbook, Campania: Recipes & Wanderings Across Italy's Polychromatic Coast, this time spotlighting the cuisine and culinary communities of Campania through a mix of technicolour travel photography, stories from regional suppliers and classic southern Italian recipes. Expect plenty of travel inspiration from the kitchens of Caruso, A Belmond Hotel, the brand's 11th century palace resort perched 350 metres above the Amalfi Coast. See Noosa's amped-up festival for foodies The four-day Noosa Eat and Drink Festival is back, and bigger than ever. This year's festival, from May 29 to June 1, includes the return of popular signature events such as the Arcadia Street Long Lunch and some fresh additions such as a new interactive cooking hub, celebrities versus chefs cooking battles, an expanded Festival Village and a new venture by chef Matt Golinski. See Where there's smoke, there's Fervor Chef Paul 'Yoda' Iskov worked in some of the world's best restaurants before founding Indigenous food pop-up, Fervor. Last year, the food collective took the concept to guests of The Ritz-Carlton, Perth for a degustation at Hearth restaurant, followed with a series of bespoke luxury food itineraries in remote parts of Western Australia. Now Iskov is teaming up with Hearth's chef de cuisine, Brian Cole, once again for a series of fire-driven dining events in June, October and November. See
The Star
13-05-2025
- Business
- The Star
Can a US$700 calendar save your marriage?
On a Thursday morning in March, my family needed to accomplish three things at exactly the same time. My husband had to board a plane to return from a business trip in London. I had agreed to moderate a panel discussion about how the cost of child care in New York City is harming the local economy. And someone had to sign our daughter up for a first-come-first-served preschool programme that typically fills its seats within 90 to 120 seconds of their online release at 10am. We had not properly accounted for this overlap through our shared Google calendar. Our snafu echoes across continents and generations, an age-old problem with a newish name: the mental load. It's the tedious, all-consuming work of planning our lives, made all the more tedious when young children are in the mix and free time seems to shrink to fleeting glances. Enter the digital calendar, which aims to make invisible work very, very visible. We received ours five to seven business days after our Thursday morning meltdown. We had identified our problem – essential information for our household was being shared only in snippets of conversation or haphazard Google calendar invites instead of one central place – and searched for a solution with a monthly installment payment. The Skylight Calendar, which can cost US$170 to US$630 (RM735 to RM2,726), depending on size, all with an optional US$79 (RM341) annual subscription fee to unlock special features, would make our scheduling conflicts impossible to ignore. The company took US$30 (RM129) off some of its calendars for Mother's Day. Our various appointments, early-morning calls and evening drinks would be beamed 24 hours a day, in all their colour-coded glory, from the Skylight's commanding position in the middle of our hallway. About 888,000 families own a Skylight, its co-founder Michael Segal, who has two children under 2, told me. The Hearth, one of the first entries into the category of supersize calendars that you can hang on a wall, was created by three working mothers and is itself a supersized version of the Skylight. It sells for US$700 (RM3,029), with a US$9 (RM38) monthly fee, though the company also ran a sale for Mother's Day, offering 15% off for Mother's Day. In an undated image provided by Hearth, the Hearth Display. The Hearth was created by three working mothers. — Hearth via The New York Times The idea behind the product, said Susie Harrison, one of Hearth's co-founders, was to 'externalise the primary caregiver's brain, and put that into a system that everyone could see'. I wanted to know how other families used their calendars, and spent the next few weeks talking with the tools' power users and sceptics: most partnered, all straight, with family budgets that could comfortably include a digital calendar. They were all ages 35 to 50, in the thick of raising young kids and juggling career demands. I wanted to know if these families felt that the money had been worth it, if they had finally found a technological solution to an analogue problem at the heart of human nature: that we cannot read our spouse's minds, to know when they scheduled our kid's next dental appointment or gymnastics class. Or, I wondered, had the purported fix uncovered new friction points, hiding in familiar gendered expectations of who does what to keep a household running. The 'calendar partner' I reached Linda Caro on a Friday morning, as she was preparing for a transcontinental flight. Caro and her husband are both flight attendants, working opposite schedules, and they are both technically based in New York City despite living in Redlands, California, with their two children, 10 and 13, who attend different schools. She unwrapped the Skylight last year on Christmas morning, a gift from her husband who had noticed that putting some of their events on a whiteboard calendar – and then taping their kids' school calendars into a semicircle around it – wasn't really working. 'It was my system; nobody else really understood it,' she said. But, she told me, she quickly became 'obsessed' with her Skylight, and joined Facebook and Reddit groups for other die-hard users. 'It's like something we wish we could have invented ourselves,' she said. (Caro is such an enthusiastic user that she recently became an unpaid ambassador to the brand, allowing her to dispense 15% off discount codes to friends, for which she said she receives a small commission.) She gave her two sisters, who live nearby, access so they could see when she would be flying and could help pitch in on child care. The kids can now check the calendar to track their parents' flight numbers. Caro even created an alert on the calendar to remind her husband to do the laundry – a move that some husbands might see as overbearing but that Caro said hers was on board with. Still, Caro is the only person in the family consistently adding events to the Skylight. 'That's something we can work on,' she admitted. It is hard to avoid the dynamic of one spouse becoming the 'calendar partner', a phrase that sent a chill down my spine when Allison Daminger, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explained it to me recently. We talked about the remedy that many families land on when trying to redistribute household labour: using the skills they have learned at work to help run their family life. 'You don't always want to go from a day of back-to-back Zoom meetings and then go home and have a check-in meeting with your partner,' said Daminger, the author of the forthcoming book What's On Her Mind: The Mental Workload Of Family Life . But that's exactly what several couples told me they do. Who knows when trash day is? The uncluttered calendar represents true logistical nirvana, said Eve Rodsky, who helped bring the idea of the mental load to the masses with her 2019 book, Fair Play , and accompanying deck of cards, each with its own task, used by couples around the country to divvy up their responsibilities. Rodsky has put the system to work in her own home. Her husband is in charge of every aspect of the trash in their home – from noticing when the garbage bags are running low and restocking them to sorting the recycling to picking a cadence for when the trash is taken out. Owning every aspect of a task, a practice Rodsky has coined CPE, for conception, planning and execution, is the only way to truly lighten the mental load, she says. And you can't calendar your way out of that. 'My biggest fear is the disappointment people are going to have when they think this amazing new shiny app will solve their gender-equity issues,' she said. Daminger said she had been approached by some entrepreneurial digital calendar founders who wanted her advice on how these tools might help moms in particular. 'I often end up being a buzzkill,' she said, 'where I say, 'I'm not sure this is actually going to change the underlying dynamic'.' Ruth de Castro, who has two teenagers and works in technology, understands that dynamic well. Her marriage had long felt unequal, but absorbing Rodsky's work on the mental load was the final straw that led to her divorce, de Castro said. 'I didn't have language for why keeping all those things in my brain was driving me crazy,' said de Castro, who lives in California's East Bay and works in technology. When she was still with her husband, she debated buying a Hearth – 'I was like, Do I really need this thing? It's 600 bucks,' she recalled – but took the plunge after she mixed up some dates and missed her daughter's ballet recital. She uses the Hearth to help ease the scheduling burden of co-parenting her two teenagers with her soon-to-be-ex-husband. It's actually simpler now that she doesn't have to hope that her partner will add important appointments to the calendar. 'You can buy something really aesthetic and nice,' she said. 'But if you're not consistent as a parent, it's almost like another thing you have to micromanage.' – ©2025 The New York Times Company This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
Winnipeg Free Press
10-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Winnipeg Free Press
Capacious yet cosy
There are times you walk into a home, and a certain design detail immediately catches your eye. In this case, as you step into the foyer of Hearth Homes' spectacular bungalow show home at 29 Sarsprilla Bend in Sage Creek, you can't help but notice the flooring which appears to be engineered walnut-hued hardwood. But that's not actually the case, says Ryan Miller, a key member of Hearth's design team. 'It's actually a new type of laminate plank flooring we recently started using,' he says. TODD LEWYS / FREE PRESS The 1,589-sq.-ft. Sherwood model was designed to be a calming refuge. 'Not only does it have a lot of wonderful colour variations to it, but it's also very water-resistant and durable. Unlike other laminate plank flooring, heavy furniture or pets won't cause any chips or divots.' Miller says having the flooring installed through the entire dwelling creates a different — and very positive — dynamic. 'Choosing to run the flooring through the home, I think, made it feel bigger,' he says. 'The continuity from space to space creates a great feeling of flow that makes an already spacious home feel even bigger. At the same time, it also gives the home a nice, cosy feel, which is what we were trying to achieve.' It would be no exaggeration to say the home possesses a certain serenity that allows the day's stress to lift from your shoulders the instant you walk in the front door. TODD LEWYS / FREE PRESS Rich walnut-style laminate plank flooring endows the home with a welcoming sense of warmth the instant you step inside. Earthy colours — taupe and white make up the main colour palette — combine with wood accents in the foyer (lower-level staircase railing) and great room (mantel beneath the electric fireplace and TV niche) — to create a pervasive sense of calm. 'That's what the home is all about,' Miller says of the Sherwood, which checks in at 1,589 sq. ft. 'We wanted to it to be cosy and calm. With that in mind, we added other colours, like Prairie-forest green.' The result is that each space exudes serenity and warmth, as well as functionality. A prime example is the kitchen, which resident chefs will appreciate for its stylish look and practical layout. 'The shade of the cabinets is softer, with two-tone light-taupe and grey-taupe cabinets meshing beautifully with veined, off-white quartz countertops, a simple light-taupe tile backsplash and high-end stainless-steel appliances, which include a slide-in range and commercial-style fridge,' Miller says. TODD LEWYS / FREE PRESS There's plenty of space to create in the stylish and highly practical island kitchen. Meanwhile, a glass-filled rear wall, consisting of a large window in the great room and a sliding patio door with transom behind the dining area, floods the main living area with natural light. 'They get a lot of light in here, while a 10-foot ceiling increases the sense of space,' Miller says. 'Combine that with a very efficient floor plan, and the main living area is tremendously functional. We took this floor plan from an existing home and made it even better.' That enhanced functionality is reflected in the placement of the dining area and great room. The dining area was positioned to the rear next to the patio door, not only giving it seamless access to both the living room and kitchen, but to a large composite deck in the backyard. TODD LEWYS / FREE PRESS A calm, cosy feel pervades the beautifully laid-out main living area. Then, there's the great room. 'As I mentioned earlier, we added splashes of Prairie-forest green to the colour scheme to complement the other soft, calming hues,' Miller says. 'The routered backdrop behind the TV looks amazing with its herringbone pattern, and the soft-green colour fits in perfectly. It's bright, spacious, relaxing and perfectly placed.' He adds that the Sherwood offers more bedrooms than its predecessor. 'This model has three rather than two bedrooms, unlike the older plan it was modelled after,' Miller notes. TODD LEWYS / FREE PRESS Entertainers will love the layout of the dining/kitchen area in Hearth Homes' Sherwood model bungalow in Sage Creek. 'The two secondary bedrooms on either side of the foyer — one bedroom with a full bath next to it to the left, and another next to a laundry room and mudroom to the right — are very well positioned.' Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Likewise, the primary bedroom's placement is exceptional. Tucked away down a private hallway next to the great room, it exudes a wonderful sense of isolation and luxury, occupying about one third of the home's footprint. 'You just need to close the door, and you're in your own private retreat. The bedroom is generous, and the spa-like ensuite offers a tiled walk-in shower and big soaker tub. The walk-in closet is perfectly placed, too,' he says. 'The Sherwood offers a perfect blend of functionality and tranquility, making it an ideal retreat for those seeking a peaceful and relaxing place to live.' lewys@ TODD LEWYS / FREE PRESS An elegant Prairie-forest-green feature wall behind the bed adds a sense of calm to the well-isolated primary bedroom. TODD LEWYS / FREE PRESS The spa-like ensuite comes with a gorgeous, tiled walk-in shower and deep soaker tub that's a perfect retreat at the end of a long day.
South China Morning Post
29-03-2025
- South China Morning Post
How Brian Cole, one of Australia's best chefs, was so close to becoming a child soldier
'We're going to play a game of hide-and-seek.' Advertisement An otherwise fun activity for any five-year-old turned out to be one that saved Sierra Leone-born Australian chef Brian Cole from being abducted and recruited as a child soldier 28 years ago. The chef de cuisine at Hearth, the signature fine dining restaurant at Perth's Ritz-Carlton, in Western Australia, still vividly remembers that harrowing moment. His mother told him and his cousin, another boy, to hide under the stairs of the house and wait to be found. However, Cole could feel something was wrong. The adults were running around scared, and there were sounds of people screaming all over the neighbourhood. Soon after, there was a loud banging on the door, followed by a booming voice asking, 'Where are the boys?' Advertisement 'There are no boys here,' his mother said defiantly.
