關於 new life catering ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

Wanna know my secret to handling 4 kids during confinement?

My life is made easier thanks to Tian Wei Signature, which has been providing me with nutritious confinement meals since I came home. It's something I wish I had done for the past three childbirths so that I wouldn't have needed to bother my in-laws to cook for me at all back then. For someone like me who likes to depend on herself yet is busy taking care of the kids 24/7, confinement catering is definitely a lifesaver.

Every afternoon and evening, the meals are delivered to my doorstep punctually. All I have to do is open the door, take the thermal bag and tuck in straight away - yup, it's so easy and convenient. The soup and longan red date tea are even kept in thermal pots so they are still hot when served, how thoughtful!

Besides being breastfeeding-friendly, having no MSG and helping to boost my recovery, the meals consist of a huge variety and good mix of cuisine, and many of them are surprisingly delectable which makes me look forward to the next one. Knowing that the baby has jaundice, they also kindly prepare my food without using ginger so as not to aggravate his condition, an act which I truly appreciate.

Even my kids give the dishes their thumbs up and will ask for more at times - I have to remind them that these are specially meant for Mama! Haha. I personally love the meals and it's the first time I get to eat fusion food like spaghetti, Japanese food and Mediterranean inspired dishes, which makes mealtimes much more exciting. See my IG highlights for more.

I would definitely recommend Tian Wei Signature to all expectant and new mums because it gives us a peace of mind, helps to nourish and replenish our body, reduces our stress and makes confinement a much more enjoyable experience.

P.S. The meals come in portions meant for one adult only even though the kids like to nibble and share. I am thankful for the hubby who cooks for the kids, for takeaways on busy days and for kids who don't mind when Mama whips up simple dishes. We are almost at the end of my confinement already and I am gonna miss these yummy meals!

#ahappymum #tianweisignature #confinementfood #sp

- Luyện đọc đầu ngày: ALEXANDER HENDERSON (1831-1913)

Born in Scotland, Henderson emigrated to Canada in 1855 and became a well-known landscape photographer.

Alexander Henderson was born in Scotland in 1831 and was the son of a successful merchant. His grandfather, also called Alexander, had founded the family business, and later became the first chairman of the National Bank of Scotland. The family had extensive landholdings in Scotland. Besides its residence in Edinburgh, it owned Press Estate, 650 acres of farmland about 35 miles southeast of the city. The family often stayed at Press Castle, the large mansion on the northern edge of the property, and Alexander spent much of his childhood in the area, playing on the beach near Eyemouth or fishing in the streams nearby.

Even after he went to school at Murcheston Academy on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Henderson returned to Press at weekends. In 1849 he began a three-year apprenticeship to become an accountant. Although he never liked the prospect of a business career, he stayed with it to please his family. In October 1855, however, he emigrated to Canada with his wife Agnes Elder Robertson and they settled in Montreal.

Henderson learned photography in Montreal around the year 1857 and quickly took it up as a serious amateur. He became a personal friend and colleague of the Scottish-Canadian photographer William Notman. The two men made a photographic excursion to Niagara Falls in 1860 and they cooperated on experiments with magnesium flares as a source of artificial light in 1865. They belonged to the same societies and were among the founding members of the Art Association of Montreal. Henderson acted as chairman of the association's first meeting, which was held in Notman's studio on 11 January 1860.

In spite of their friendship, their styles of photography were quite different. While Notman's landscapes were noted for their bold realism, Henderson for the first 20 years of his career produced romantic images, showing the strong influence of the British landscape tradition. His artistic and technical progress was rapid and in 1865 he published his first major collection of landscape photographs. The publication had limited circulation (only seven copies have ever been found), and was called Canadian Views and Studies. The contents of each copy vary significantly and have proved a useful source for evaluating Henderson's early work.
In 1866, he gave up his business to open a photographic studio, advertising himself as a portrait and landscape photographer. From about 1870 he dropped portraiture to specialize in landscape photography and other views. His numerous photographs of city life revealed in street scenes, houses, and markets are alive with human activity, and although his favourite subject was landscape he usually composed his scenes around such human pursuits as farming the land, cutting ice on a river, or sailing down a woodland stream. There was sufficient demand for these types of scenes and others he took depicting the lumber trade, steamboats and waterfalls to enable him to make a living. There was little competing hobby or amateur photography before the late 1880s because of the time-consuming techniques involved and the weight of the equipment. People wanted to buy photographs as souvenirs of a trip or as gifts, and catering to this market, Henderson had stock photographs on display at his studio for mounting, framing, or inclusion in albums.

Henderson frequently exhibited his photographs in Montreal and abroad, in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, New York, and Philadelphia. He met with greater success in 1877 and 1878 in New York when he won first prizes in the exhibition held by E and HT Anthony and Company for landscapes using the Lambertype process. In 1878 his work won second prize at the world exhibition in Paris.

In the 1870s and 1880s Henderson travelled widely throughout Quebec and Ontario, in Canada, documenting the major cities of the two provinces and many of the villages in Quebec. He was especially fond of the wilderness and often travelled by canoe on the Blanche, du Lievre, and other noted eastern rivers. He went on several occasions to the Maritimes and in 1872 he sailed by yacht along the lower north shore of the St Lawrence River. That same year, while in the lower St Lawrence River region, he took some photographs of the construction of the Intercolonial Railway. This undertaking led in 1875 to a commission from the railway to record the principal structures along the almost-completed line connecting Montreal to Halifax. Commissions from other railways followed. In 1876 he photographed bridges on the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway between Montreal and Ottawa. In 1885 he went west along the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) as far as Rogers Pass in British Columbia, where he took photographs of the mountains and the progress of construction.

In 1892 Henderson accepted a full-time position with the CPR as manager of a photographic department which he was to set up and administer. His duties included spending four months in the field each year. That summer he made his second trip west, photographing extensively along the railway line as far as Victoria. He continued in this post until 1897, when he retired completely from photography.

When Henderson died in 1913, his huge collection of glass negatives was stored in the basement of his house. Today collections of his work are held at the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, and the McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal.

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[Paris pastry shop / 巴黎甜點店] Cedric Grolet（中文請按「繼續閱讀」）

Since I've finally got some time, I'd like to share with you some other pastry shops that I've visited during the past months. Yes, I finally paid a visit to Cédric's pastry shop after months it has opened.

It's a little space adjacent to Hotel Le Meurice on rue Castiglione. People started to line up in front of the door when it was just opened in the noon. With a young pastry chef in action, Cédric's signature pastries in the vitrine, and professional staff catering for customers, you'd immediately feel the difference as you approach the shop. It's like visiting a palace, not an ordinary pastry shop in your neighbourhood.

Since I've interned at Le Meurice before, I've got the chance to taste most of Cédric's creations during the internship (and that's probably why I didn't have that trigger to visit the shop right away). In general I'm not so curious about how they taste, but we still picked up ONE OF EACH individual pastry in the shop that day, excluding the viennoiseries and flan: the Tarte Noisette, the Tarte Mont-Blanc, the Paris-Brest, the Mandarine, and the Pomme Jaune. They were unsurprisingly made with absolute perfection, just as how maniac Cédric is. I guess slacking off at work would never be considered an option in his life. Having said so, I still feel that it's a pity that he spends less time in the labo at the hotel. Although revising and perfecting an existing creation is very important, take the Noisette 2.0 for example, I would actually love to see more of his creations and new ideas. His fruit sculptures are evolutionary for no doubt, but it's definitely not a limit. I'm so looking forward to see something more than that and other than that, while he's absolutely capable for it.

What do you think?

這陣子開始比較有空，所以把過去幾個月的照片整理了一下，和大家分享之前去過的甜點店。今年年初我終於去拜訪了Cédric Grolet主廚的店，雖然它已開幕了好久，現在再也不是新聞了。之所以拖了這麼久卻一直沒有動力，是因為我之前在Le Meurice實習，Cédric主廚的甜點我大部分都已經品嚐過，有點不太知道去了之後該點什麼...

我們是週日中午剛開店的時候到的，小小的店門口（就在Le Meurice飯店轉角的路上）已經開始排起人龍，許多經過的遊客雖然不知道Cédric是誰，但看到櫥窗裡精緻的甜點、詢問了當地的顧客，結果也跟著排起隊來。Cédric的店雖小，但從店的裝潢、服務人員的態度與呈現甜點的方式，都透露著超高級飯店的血統。這點在我們點了甜點外帶之後，看到包裝方式與設計更是印象深刻。像珠寶盒一般的外帶紙盒，外頭有大理石紋，裡面則是耀眼的金色內裝，極簡裡透出的華麗，真的不是一般甜點店可以負擔得起的。

雖然我大部分甜點都吃過了，但是為了做紀錄、也為了分享給大家，我和朋友仍然非常豪邁地把當日提供的五樣甜點全部都各帶了一份走（可惜錢包已經無法再支撐得起viennoiserie和flan了），包括榛果塔（Tarte Noisette）、蒙布朗塔（Tarte Mont-Blanc）、巴黎布列斯特泡芙（Paris-Brest）、橘子（Mandarine）、黃蘋果（Pomme Jaune）。當天雖然是個冷得不得了的陰天，但柔和的光線剛好能如實地呈現Cédric甜點令人歎為觀止的細節處理（請點單張照片觀賞，特別是橘子與黃蘋果，可以特別欣賞水果果皮的質感）。

除了外型始終如一地完美外，味道也沒有令人失望，和我記憶中一樣，每個元素都處理得很用心。不過我其實一直對Cédric近年來變成大明星、全球跑透透開課這件事感到有點可惜，因為這樣一來，他真正能待在Le Meurice甜點廚房裡發展新創作的時間就越來越少了。而我相信以他的才華，怎麼可能僅限於水果雕塑與魔術方塊？最近他有限的時間，似乎投入在將水果雕塑範圍擴大、更新原有的創作（例如他的榛果2.0），以及放手讓團隊、特別是副主廚發揮上。很希望如果他接下來有多一點時間給自己，我們能有機會看到更多令人耳目一新的創作。

👉🏻 延伸閱讀：
全球最知名的甜點主廚Cédric Grolet - http://www.biosmonthly.com/columnist_topic/9482

#yingspastryguide #paris #cedricgrolet #cgfruits

America’s East Coast is home to buzzing cities in the north and chilled-out countryside in the south.

In New York, everything is possible… even becoming a superhero! Catering to crime fighters and villains alike, the superhero store in Brooklyn has everything from costumes to conveniently packaged powers, including canned cyclones and mind-reading machines. A secret door at the back of the shop leads to some real life superheroes – the non-profit organisation 826NYC, which helps kids with creative writing. https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articles/an-off-the-beaten-path-guide-to-brooklyn/

A Milford, Connecticut restaurant named Perry’s served the first documented lobster roll in 1929. The sandwich quickly became popular along the coast but never spread far beyond the state. Today, Lobster Landing in Connecticut, is home to the East Coast’s best lobster roll. https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/massachusetts/articles/a-brief-history-of-the-lobster-roll/

In Titusville, Florida you can watch the water glow around you on this kayak tour through a bioluminescent lagoon. The unique phenomenon is caused by glow-in-the-dark plankton inhabiting this stretch of water, and it’s one of the few places on the planet to where this spectacle happens on a regular basis. https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/florida/articles/11-amazing-places-in-florida-you-didnt-know-existed/

This real-life Kwik-E-Mart isn’t in Springfield, it’s in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Next door to it is a Simpsons-themed cinema called the Aztec Theater, exactly like the one that appears on the show. Sample some of Apu’s infamous heat lamp hot dogs and wash them down with a Squishee. Discover more to eat around Myrtle Beach here:
https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/south-carolina/articles/eating-out-in-myrtle-beach-sc-top-10-restaurants/

Based on the Lost City of Atlantis, Neptune Memorial Reef – an underwater labyrinth of stone roads, carved lions and enormous Roman columns – is a 16-acre (six-hectare) cemetery that sits 40 feet (12 meters) below the surface of the sea. Any experienced diver can visit the site for free, but you’ll need a boat and gear to get there. https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/florida/articles/top-10-unusual-things-to-do-in-miami/

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Hong Kong is a food lover's paradise. Everywhere you go, you can find noodle shops catering to the egg noodle and duck lovers, bakeries selling egg custard and pineapple bread. I didn't get a chance to try everything including dim sum and milk tea, but there's always a next time.
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