It’s simple to end up in a place in Mumbai that is insipidly chic, ambiguously pulsating, and completely full of itself. I will find myself at parties or bars and inevitably things will drone on and wit in conversation will seem like something from a dream. When that happens, stepping away to have [...]

And only I was left by the window. My eyes probed the silent night, I was gnawed by the wild beast of memory, and sleep would not come. - Isaac Babel And then I ate.

Every now and then I come across a kitchen that perfectly personifies the person that uses it. Norman’s kitchen is one of them. It sits in blackwood, outside of Melbourne. Norman’s kitchen is as much a vault of the antique, otherworldly, and authentic as the rest of Norman’s house; as Norman himself for that [...]