‘It is better to live in the memory of two or three than to be mourned & forgotten by all the world. Remembrance is a golden chain time tries to break.’ — Recorded in the back of Illuminated Scripture Text Book belonging to Ada Bladwell (nee Mitchell) At the front of a sandstone Gothic […]
The Quarry Journal
A journal of creative writing by students at Macquarie University
Revelations from my German Woman’s Household Manual, Kerry Behrendt
Rapünzchen, a diminutive of Rapunzel, is a German name for lamb’s lettuce or field salad, a common winter green in Europe, but rare in Australia. I love it. It has a nutty, tangy, very distinct flavour. The leaves of baby spinach look somewhat similar, but the flavour is quite different and their relationship as salad […]