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Simmer Down Podcast: Moon Cake Festival

Podcast Co-Host, Producer and Editor: Brenda Anderson Guest: Chia Chong Sound Engineer: Clayton De Wet Our own Chia Chong is a guest on this week’s Simmer Down Podcast. Chia shares her memories […]

Inspired by Flour: Bagel Week

Photography by Chia Chong Styling by Libbie Summers  This week we continue our Summer baking inspiration as flour is our 7th guest aboard a Boat Bagel party! 

chicken keeping then and now

In the olden days you’d throw down some scratch, call it a day and that was “keeping chickens.” Oh, and you had a stone-sharpened hatchet by the kitchen door and an old tree stump in the yard.

These days, a defining accessory – “good riddance” infinity pools, fasts cars and cute babies in aerospace industry engineered strollers – chickens both domestic and imported live at the level to which their owners are accustomed.