What’s in a name? Maybe we should ask some of the big companies that experienced translation problems with their products in recent years. Consider, for example… … the Mitsubishi Pajero. These 4×4 vehicles were all the rage in South Africa’s moneyed classes in the mid-1990s. But in Spanish slang, pajero is a term for a […]
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After the rain – Seillans, France, October 2004 This is the time of year when I start feeling a creeping fear – fear of the long, nights, fear of my freezing toes, fear of broken heating systems, fear of my frostbitten nose. I wake up in the morning to greyness. I go out at […]
Click here for a full portionGem squash 101: how to find them, how to grow them, how to eat them!
No doubt my non-South African readers are scratching their head and asking what the hell is a gem squash and why do we need a whole post dedicated to them. Well, let me tell you – it is probably the thing that South Africans abroad crave the most, and one of the more frustratingly unobtainable. In […]
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Court of the Lions, Alhambra Palace – Granada, July 2005
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Ah, October. How did you swing around again so fast? October is… … the 10th month in the Gregorian calendar (which we use today) but was the eighth month in the Roman calendar, hence the “oct” part of its name. … the month in which we celebrate St Crispin’s Day (patron saint of shoemakers) … […]
Click here for a full portionEasy lemon brulée for A Taste of Yellow
In March, I was back home in South Africa for a holiday and to speak at the first South African Food Blogger Conference. I’d been chatting via e-mail and Facebook with my friend Colleen (the powerhouse behind the conference) and in the course of our Facebook conversations, one of her friends (Robyn) recognised me as […]
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