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Sydney Morning Herald
Thursday October 29, 2009
Defending Indian restaurants and some mixed memories of Margaret Fulton. Letter of the month What a refreshing report from Terry Durack about Sydney dining (Food Sleuth, October). This kind of positive critical writing is what we need more of. It pushes Sydney people to focus on what€™s being done well and what needs to improve. It€™s good to get objective critique so we can congratulate excellence and avoid mediocrity.Now can we please find similar voices for design, urban planning and cultural awareness, so we can recognise the people who are building the road ahead for Sydney? Let€™s celebrate the next wave of creative industries champions and others who are shaping our cultural voice.Andrew Barnum, Erskineville A taste of Terry Welcome back, Terry Durack €“ and what a pleasure to read your assessment of Sydney€™s dining scene. I beg to differ on one point only, that Sydney lacks good modern Indian cuisine. On many visits to India, I have been amazed by the vast subtleties of Indian food. Of course, Sydney has plenty of ordinary neighbourhood Indian restaurants of the butter chicken/ rogan josh variety (and there is a place for these). However, we also have Nilgiri€™s, Aki€™s, QMin and Zaaffran, all of which serve seriously good, creative, modern Indian cuisine. Please do give them a try €“ and let€™s have your reviews! Vicki Tennant, Neutral Bay Right royal treat Thank you for the great story and photos of Margaret Fulton (Queen Margaret, October). She deserves her crown. Her Margaret Fulton Cookbook for Paul Hamlyn was my first cookbook 40 years ago and I learnt to cook with her at my side. It is still on my shelf, along with all the other talented Australian cooks and chefs who have followed the trail that Margaret first blazed. Your readers know that Sydney is the home of Australia€™s beautiful people €“ and not all of them are under 40. Raise your glasses to Her Majesty.Lindsay Ferguson, Forrest, ACT Refreshing change Whacko! What a gorgeous cover photograph of Margaret Fulton.It€™s so refreshing to read about someone with a life lived to the full. The endless parade of perfect, vacuous faces without character is just boring; we should also celebrate the older people in our community. Altogether this is perhaps the best issue yet, a sumptuous edition that made me race off to my favourite eatery.Welcome back to Terry Durack, too.He€™s right on the pulse as usual.Philomena Spearritt, Mosman Ups and downs Way back in 1979, I had just become engaged and was excitedly going on a shopping expedition with my mum and sister to try on wedding gowns. After parking our car in the MLC Centre, we waited for the lift to arrive. To our surprise and delight, there, in the lift, stood Margaret Fulton. My mum almost went to jelly, which she had probably learnt to make from one of Margaret€™s cookbooks. As I was a spirited, unselfconscious 22-yearold at the time, I thought nothing of talking to someone famous, so I very politely spoke to her. To my mum€™s horror, she looked down her nose at us, didn€™t utter a word and alighted at the next floor after shooting me a €śhow dare you speak to me€ť stare! After reading the article, I had to chuckle as she mentions her good friend Maureen Simpson, whose name I share.Maureen Simpson, Balmain
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