Shocker, now that's where your wrong son, Colombian Rice Pudding, is actually made from the milk of the male South American Lama, Yep, the Colombians trek high into the Himalayan Mountains of South America, where they proceed to milk the wild lama's, they prefer to milk the male Delli Lamas mostly, but they will milk any lama that is wondering by at the time. A very wise old Aztec, his name was Billy Thorpe, gave me the recipe for Columbian Rice Pudding just before he passed on from this world. An ancient old recipe. lost in the mist of time, I think he got it off the back of a Cornflakes packet. As I can't speak Colombian, and since that's all old Billy could speak, there may be something lost in the translation, but here it goes.

40 galleons of Lama Milk, Delli Lama Milk preferred, if you can't get Delli Lama milk then just use what ever Lama milk is available at your local Wollies or Coles. failing that just use plain old Yaks milk, I do, but my pudding tasted like crap, but who cares?

1 ton of wild rice, I prefer the wild rice grown in the Atacama Desert myself, I get out early and pick my own before the suns up. but if you can't get Atacama Desert wild rice, well tough luck, just leave it out, no one will notice if there's no rice in your rice pudding, will they.

1 teaspoon of sugar, very important, boil the bloody lot in a 44 gallon drum for about a week, then serve to anyone you don't like, guaranteed they wont ask for seconds, all the more for you. Yummy!

Dear Jay,

Yes, it does matter as to who's doing the
cooking. At least to me. I'm very fussy
in my choice of restaurants - and if I
want French food - I would choose a
French Restaurant where the Chef is actially
French. The same goes for any other cuisine.
But of course it is a matter of one's personal
choices. Because I love cooking -
and having been taught by experts in their field,
I usually prefer to cook and entertain at home.
We don't eat out all that much - but when we do -
we are very selective and fussy about where we
eat.

Dear Jay,

I'm sorry that all you've experienced is pub food,
and worked in a restaurant that supposedly was
French but that didn't actually have any French
Chefs. It wasn't a French Restaurant by French
standards. And your daughter's "Chicken Kiev,"
is not the real deal when its cooked in a pub. She'd
know the difference immediately if she was served
the real thing. Once you tasted the real deal - you
would know what the difference was from the imitations
that you've been given. But never mind. If you don't
know the difference - it doesn't matter to you.
I know the difference - and it does matter to me.

Hi Foxy, we are lucky to have plenty of good restaurants in inner city Sydney, catering for all tastes and budgets. One of my favorites is a no pasta Italian place in Newton.
RisR, Gee! on a late Friday night on the turps, you can't beat a curried prawns and rice from the local chows, It always taste better than ya home cooked version, Chinese always goes better with beer, about 6 schooners later it all tastes great! LOL

Amazing, the so called multiculturalists here are all talking about resturants and in the press is a picture of a young Sydney boy. now in Syria, holding up a severed human head.

Now that is actual multiculturalism in action.

This boy will most likely return to Sydney. what wonderful stories he can relate to his classmates.

Dear Banjo,

Why continue to blame multiculturalism for extremism and
fundamentalism. That's an irrational,
inflexible attitud towards entire categories of people.
You ignore the differences among
individuals within those groups.

Prejudiced though always involves the use of
stereotypes - a rigid mental image that summarises
whatever is believed to be typical about a particular group.

Like ethnocentrism, stereotyped thinking is an almost
unavoidable feature for some in our society. These people
tend to think in terms of general categories, if only to enable
them to make sense of the world by simplifying its
complexity. I bet many of us have our own stereotype, for
example, of what an Australian Aborigine is like.

The essence of prejudiced thinking, however, is that the
stereotype is not checked against reality. It isn't
modified by experiences that contradict the rigid image.
If a prejudiced person finds that an individual member of a
group does not conform to the stereotype for the group as a
whole, this evidence is simply taken as -

"the exception that proves the rule" and not as grounds
for questioning the original belief.