A wholesome fruit, a versatile vegetable, an artist's Still Life subject, the Avocado is in a class of its own. Whether diced in a bowl of salad, blended in a nourishing juice or scooped straight out of its shell, for me the avocado's sensual texture, colouring crayon colours and milky taste, evoke sensory delights at once exotic and familiar, sophisticated and homely. Not only that, the avocado is equally comfortable in the company of delicate vinaigrette dressing served in a pretentious nouvelle cuisine dish or covered in chunks of dark palm sugar in a child's dessert bowl. Packed with vitamins and natural goodness the Avocado truly balances the mind, body and spirit. A truly creative food. - desi anwar
The PowerlessRhonda Byrne, author of ‘The Secret,’ has a new book called ‘The Power,’ which claims you can get anything by believing in it. Don’t believe it.
by Jerry AdlerAugust 20, 2010
In the world of publishing, a self-help author who manages to stop after one book is as rare as a poet who gets booked onto Larry King. Sooner or later, even those whose first books claimed to encapsulate all of human philosophy since Aristotle go scrounging for leftover insights that can propel them back to the top of the bestseller lists. Take the erstwhile Australian television producer Rhonda Byrne, whose monumental 2006 bestseller The Secret laid bare “the law that determines the complete order in the Universe, every moment of your life, and every single thing you experience.” Following that—and The Secret Gratitude Book (2007) and The Secret Daily Teachings (2008)—what more was there to say?
Enough, it turns out, to half fill the 250 extremely small pages of her new opus, The Power, which the day after publication this week ranked in the top five on Amazon. This was in spite of Byrne’s apparent refusal to give interviews or publicize the book in any way, a subject of some speculation in publishing circles. It’s easy to dismiss someone like Byrne as a marginal crackpot, but The Secret has 19 million copies in print, according to her publisher, Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. To put it another way, about eight times as many people shelled out money for Rhonda Byrne’s thoughts as listen to Glenn Beck’s for free (in an average week). Maybe we ought to pay more attention to what she has to say.
Where did Mum go?
