It's a country we mainly hear about in bleak ABC news crosses to Sally Sara. But Afghani food in Australia is a wondrous world away from roadside bombs and terror groups, says Crikey intern Esther Ooi.
Thanks to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, we're aware that cafeteria food in US schools aren't the most nutritious meals. But how do they compare when slopped alongside prison food?
Opened in 1975, Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage is now Sri Lanka’s best known and most popular tourist destination. Crikey reader Beryce Nelson was there, taking happy snaps for Back in a Bit's 'slide night.'
Qantas is now working on a low-cost yet high-quality Asia-based, single-aisle airline for those travellers who can’t tolerate low-quality, low-fare Jetstar.
Qantas finds itself surrounded on the once lucrative routes between Australia and the US by airlines that are capitalising on the biggest fleet blunder it ever made, in choosing NOT to buy Boeing 777s.
Apparently Pakistan may demolish Osama bin Laden's hideout to stop it becoming a tourist attraction. Apart from Osama, what else can you find in Abbottabad? Amber Jamieson went exploring.
Eric Asimov loves Austrian rieslings, linking them with dry finishes and mineral flavours "etched with laserlike precision." But a recent sample of 20 rieslings from various vintages didn't quite meet his expectations.
It was 3am last year in Santiago, Chile, when Laura Burgoine was awoken by plates and glasses smashing on to the kitchen floor as her apartment walls shook. What does one do in such a situation?
Bob Gosford is attending the annual Society of Ethnobiology in Ohio, where he will give two presentations, one of them titled 'Trespass, Ticks and Twitchers: The Price of a Parrot.'
Mildlife are a Melbourne-based electronic band with a fondness for cheese. Band member Tom Shanahan compiles a list of the greatest moulds, including mind blowing fromager d'affinois and bocconcini that tastes like "miniature clouds of romance."
