I went on a holiday to the USA and Canada for 5 weeks, so have not had a chance to write anything or cook anything. I get really sick of eating in restaurants on holiday. Not only the expense, but the lack of good home cooked food. I only had 2 home cooked meals during the entire time.
On the other hand, it was a great experience. I had some very nice bread, and I think overall bread in the USA is better than bread here in Australia or the UK. The cookware shops were amazing, the prices unbelievable. One of the main things I learned was that we a ripped off left right and centre for prices in Australia. The service in shops was amazingly good too, compared to the ignorant, uninterested or just plain rude service you get here. People did find it hard to understand my accent though.
Anyway, I'm going to buy things from the USA where possible from now on. Many shops have recently started selling produce to Australia:
http://www.fiftyone.com/clients
A really good cookery store, probably the best I have seen, is Williams-Sonoma - soon they will be able to take Australian orders. The prices for electrical items were about one third of what we would pay here.
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