FRIEND Fiji

Tukuni! Uwe, uwe! And so the story starts. Tukuni is the iTaukei word for a story, and ‘uwe, uwe’ is the response from the audience sprawled on the mat around the tale teller if they wish to listen. But Tukuni is a special sort of story – not a myth or a legend, not a fanciful yarn, a romantic saga or even a chronicle of events.

October 21, 2017

A tale of traditional tastes

Tukuni! Uwe, uwe! And so the story starts. Tukuni is the iTaukei word for a story, and ‘uwe, uwe’ is the response from the audience sprawled […]
October 15, 2017

Tangy tamarind just makes you drool

YOU can’t beat the taste of food at festivities, especially weddings, if the food absorbs the joys of merrymaking! Cooking at any Indian event is done […]
October 8, 2017

Power in a flour

WORKING hard on sugarcane farms from dawn to dusk surviving on a handful laddoo. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Yet that is the power of high-protein, […]
September 11, 2017

Diplomat calls it a day

HAVING never set a foot in a Pacific Island country, Andrew Jacobs could only guess what his appointment as the Pacific ambassador for the European Union […]