White Australia

By Vivienne Stanton

(Published in Life & Style, 2008)

HOPE Street, Perth, is a quiet lane in the back streets behind the Western Australian capital’s nightlife district: a compact, three-square-kilometre rectangle of Asian restaurants, Indian supermarkets, Italian cafes, kebab shops, sushi stalls, sex shops, Karaoke bars and backpacker hostels, doing their best to shake the city’s—my hometown—reputation as “Dullsville”. On any given Saturday, you’ll find backpackers stumbling out of… Read more

Flying Food Safari

By Vivienne Stanton

(Published in Australian Gourmet Traveller, December 2009)

From the air, the world seems to fit within a single, sprawling eyeful. Patterns, unseen from the ground,  reveal themselves. You are not an ant, crawling through dusty crevices, but an osprey, an eagle, a broad-winged sea bird, flying high in the sky.

Or so it seems, from the porthole of our Beechcraft King Air twin-engine turboprop jet: a… Read more