Broadcaster. Producer. Journalist.
Can you roast a live chicken?
We roast dead chickens all the time. Sometimes breast by breast, sometimes wing by wing.
It's no trouble at all to roast a chicken that was killed days or even weeks before the actual cooking part. It should go without saying that you can roast a live one. Or can you?
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Wish Her Safe At Home
By Stephen Benatar
A Review
A few years ago, my friend Anna was filling out an immigration form in Hong Kong when it asked for her marital condition.
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Hav
by Jan morris
A review
I don’t usually read travel literature. In fact, I’m not crazy about travel at all. Evidence of my travels rarely appears on my instagram profile and I can’t say that the sentence “I love to travel” has ever appeared on any of my online dating profiles. Which is why it is doubly strange that I should choose to read Hav, a 1985 fictional travelogue by Jan Morris originally published as Last Letters From Hav.
Read moreI don't like being told I'm personally responsible for the extinction of all the animals on the planet.
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The term “flawed masterpiece” is in itself an oxymoron. How can something be masterfully crafted and finished if it has flaws? Surely it is a binary conclusion, something is a masterpiece or it isn't. But the first man through the wall always gets bloody. And in trying to create something that no one else has achieved yet, flaws are bound to appear. It is the scope of a work's ambition and the attempt to pull it off that we call masterful, in spite of apparent flaws.
Read moreThe sun shone white and hot like a baking disk of camembert as it crept over the horizon. And much like camembert, the morning also gave Mr. Monelli an acute bout of diarrhea.
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It's September 22, 1997. The stage is the most hallowed arena in professional wrestling, Madison Square Garden in New York City. Professional wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin is in the ring with the owner of the World Wrestling Federation Vince McMahon. There are uniformed police present, threatening to arrest Steve Austin for his reckless, unhinged behaviour. McMahon offers an olive branch, appealing to Steve with benevolence. Ask anyone who grew up in the late 90s with even a tangential connection to professional wrestling. They can tell you beat for beat what will happen next.
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