When I started a food blog, I had modest aspirations. I hoped to meet a few like-minded people and pictured myself perhaps being asked to write a few words for magazines. What I didn’t picture was myself sitting on the grand staircase of an embassy, changing my trainers for strappy sandals in front of two lovely PR […]
Click here for a full portionSouth African melktert (milk tart) revisited
This was originally posted to CookSister! in November 2007, but seeing as I am away in Germany visiting my sister-from-another-mother Meeta this weekend and will not be online (much!), I thought I woud repost it for this week’s Sundays in South African feature. Do you know the feeling when you know something is part of […]
Click here for a full portionSaturday Snapshots #100
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II – Milan, July 2009
Click here for a full portionEasy apple pecan cobbler recipe
When I was at school and just starting to learn Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem If, my mom told me a story that tickled me pink and that I think of to this day every time I see Kipling’s name. It went like this: He: “Do you like Kipling, my dear?” She: I don’t know, you […]
Click here for a full portionAn evening with Peter Gordon at GBK
Peter Gordon – New Zealand born fusion chef extraordinaire, owner of the highly regarded Providores and erstwhile head chef at the Sugar Club in London. Gourmet Burger Kitchen – a chain of (admittedly upmarket) burger and milkshake joints. You wouldn’t think they had much in commmon, would you? But… you’d be wrong. In fact, Peter […]
Click here for a full portionWhole leg of lamb on the braai/BBQ
People often ask me who my favourite chef or cookbook writer is, and I never hesitate to answer Nigel Slater. His Kitchen Diaries transformed the way I thought about cookbooks – here for the first time was somebody who cooked exactly the way I aspired to – and took aspirational photos to boot! I love […]
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