| Ogeechee Canal is place to pick up nature, nurture, history
I'm embarrassed to say that until yesterday, I had never stuck my foot in the swamp of the Savannah-Ogeechee Canal area. It's another one of the hidden jewels that makes this area a treasure. The canal history center points the way to undisturbed biodiversity, from full swamp to salt palms and hardwood forest to sand hills left from ancient times when ocean waves washed up. Nature trails, boardwalks and bridges lead through scenic forests and transportation history, where barges toted lumber, cotton and rice through locks to mills and markets in the 19th century. Peter Brodhead, a nutritionist and owner of Brighter Day Natural Food Market, with assistance from Wilderness Southeast's Joyce Murlless, led a tour Saturday focusing on medicinal herbs and plants.
Klang Valley Streets: Lighten up, it's mooncake time
It�s that time of the year again for mooncakes and lanterns. With the Mid-Autumn Festival just four days away, FRANCIS DASS savours the possibilities. I AM usually over the moon at this time of year. It is mooncake festival time and, ever since my childhood growing up in Penang, I can never seem to get enough of mooncakes and hand-held candle-lit lanterns.
Of course, mooncakes have evolved from the plain lotus single-yolk variety to the shocking four-yolked ones of a few years ago (which we thankfully don�t see much of nowadays) to multi-flavoured varieties.
Do you have a yen for green tea mooncakes, or red bean or perhaps durian mooncakes? No problem: the makers of mooncakes are outdoing themselves when it comes to novelty tastes.
The best place in the Klang Valley for a wide variety of mooncakes could well be Mid Valley Megamall.
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