Mallika Viegas

I’m Vanmala Subramaniam and I’m a business journalist with The Globe and Mail. I report on everything to do with how companies make money and lose money. I charted the explosive rise of this newly legal industry, and then I subsequently covered its dramatic fall, which really was one long tale of greed and irrational exuberance. I grew up in Malaysia, and arrived in Canada alone at 19 for university.

Photography courtesy Bolt Content "The name Michelle DuBarry came much later but I used to get dressed up and go out long before. Drag was very different back then.

Many of Portugal’s pastries can be traced back to the country’s once-vast network of convents and monasteries. The religious centres used egg whites to starch their laundry, and had to come up with a use for the excess yolks, legend says. Different regions came up with variations of pasteis de nata (egg custard pastries). To this day, the Lisbon area is known for its version of the tarts and one place to savour them in the city is Pasteis de Belem.