A home grown love affair
The News Review:
- A home grown love affair
- A day in the life of a family in need
- PENNY PARKER: That’s more like it
- Blast for NZ tax after $100m sale
- It’s the viewers, stupid
- North v South
- Not without unleashing our own dynamic
A home grown love affair
Fiji Times – Oct 28, 2007
As the son of famous Suva chef Bisun Chand (now with JJ’s on the Park) Robin grew up in a home where the dishes were always fancy and of the rare variety French, Chinese and Japanese fare. That was what set his mind on becoming a chef just like his dad. Robin is the chef of Captain’s Caf that sits in the Copra Shed in Savusavu. He landed the job after his wife, Dolly, was transferred to the northern town to manage the Copra Shed. Robin has no regrets about the move.
A day in the life of a family in need
Guardian Unlimited – Oct 28, 2007
She gets out the saucepans and washes them ready to prepare lunch. Then she takes a bath – a wash from head to feet in cold water that the girls will have fetched that morning before school from the well in jerry cans balanced on their heads. She pours the water into a plastic washing-up bowl and uses soap and a home-grown loofah to scrub herself clean. She sets twigs between three stones and lights a bundle of dry grasses with matches, then feeds them between and under the twigs until the fire is alight. Lunch will be boiled greens – a spinach-type vegetable that grows wild – with atap, the staple food, made of millet with added dried cassava, which looks like a brown lump on the plate, of a consistency somewhere between bread and porridge. Julius comes back to eat lunch with them and then sets off for his afternoon job repairing bicycles. He makes about 1,000 shillings (28p) a day at the trading centre.
PENNY PARKER: That’s more like it
Rocky Mountain News – Oct 28, 2007
HOME GROWN: How cool was that asking East High grad Philip Bailey ofEarth Wind and Fire fame singing God Bless America during theseventh-inning stretch. A definite bright point during a scarygame. and it