I have often said to people that one of the characteristics I admire most in somebody is their ability to surprise me, even if I’ve known them for ages. It might discovering a clutch of heavy metal CDs in the collection of an old friend with a taste for opera. It might be a long-term vegetarian friend […]
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Blackbird – London, January 2010
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So did you hear the one about the girl who called up a couple of central London restaurants one Friday afternoon, asking: “Hello, do you have a table for eleven people available for dinner tomorrow evening? Yes, that’s this Saturday evening I’m talking about, and I’d like the table at 19h30.” OK, so those of you who […]
Click here for a full portionCheese crackers – perfect with goats’ cheese and apples
I’m a sucker for figures of speech – which is a good thing because the Afrikaans language (which is my mother tongue) is particularly richly endowed with them! One figure of speech that we have in abundance is adjectives in their intensive form – English has a few (snow white, blood red), but Afrikaans has […]
Click here for a full portionCape Town – a culinary snapshot
This post was originally written for a wonderful series on my dear friend Johanna’s blog The Passionate Cook where each post put the culiary spotlight on a different world city. Johanna sent a list of questions; I provided the answers below. As the entire football-conscious world knows by now, the FIFA World Cup 2010 will […]
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Crisp – January 2010
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