Would You Like Some Culture With Your Coffee?

On Saturday morning the three of us hit Eveleigh Markets to dig out some tasty produce for dinner. We went with tagliatelle with duck ragu. YUM. Duck from Pepe's Ducks and pasta from Pasta Emilia. I think it was pretty tasty but not my best D.R effort yet.

Plenty of people there as always and some really good stalls. Pork, flowers, bagels, Yulla, cheese, wine, bread, meat, poultry, newspapers, chocolate brownies, cakes and a few really good organic fruit and vegie people.

Trent was very happy with the coffee however I was a little disappointed with my sausage roll. Sold cold (so i had to wait til I got home to heat it up) which was weird I thought and with pastry which was far too crumbly, I like a flaky pastry casing on a snag roll but not a crumbly one... eh, whaddya gonna to do.

Then, just opposite the markets there was a great free exhibition at Carriageworks. The photographs of Jacques L'Affrique AKA David Porter. As the blurb said, "With daring and skill L'Affrique/Porter captured what are now iconic images of Australian cultural history, recording almost every great concert from 1971-1974." Really cool pics - all black and white with subjects like Daddy Cool, Elton John, Jethro Tull, Rick Springfield, Billy Thorpe, Germaine Greer, Michael Gudinski. Very gritty. Very rock n roll and very 1970's Australia - lots of tinnies, tight t-shirts and short shorts. Very cool. Worth a look.

There's also a pretty zany 3D art exhibition there worth a squiz, featuring work by Vernon Treweeke. Known as the "father of Australia psychedelia", Vernon has been creating UV and 3D art since the late 70's. Kind of kooky with lots of big boobs and bums and fluorescent colours. They provide 3D glasses  which we sported in a most chic manner... not!