Morris dancers – London, May 2013
Click here for a full portionA spiced strawberry & rhubarb upside-down cake to celebrate 9 years of blogging
Nine years. It’s quite a log time, really. Longer than either of the two World Wars; longer than the musical Grease ran on Broadway; longer than the life of the oldest hamster ever recorded; and considerably longer than either of Britney Spears’ marriages. Nine years ago last Thursday, I took a deep breath, sat […]
Click here for a full portionSouth African Food & Wine Blogger Indaba 2012
Yes, I am perfectly aware that it has taken me almost a year to get this post up… If I distract you with lots of pretty pictures will you pretend not to notice how long it has taken? As I celebrated my nine year (!!) anniversary of starting his blog last week, I have been […]
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Public art, La Defense – Paris, June 2012
Click here for a full portionNaga restaurant review
Am I the only one whose heart sinks when I read about a restaurant where the cuisine is described as pan-[insert huge geographical region here]? Africa is a continent, not a country (as they say), and a vast, not-very-homogenous one at that), and pan-African cuisine can only lead to the kind of messy culinary copulation […]
Click here for a full portionStrawberry carpaccio with smoked balsamic reduction and toasted pistachios
When my brother and I were teenagers, we went through a phase (doesn’t everyone?) of wanting to start a band. I could play the piano; he could play the saxophone (well it was the 1980s – saxophones were de reigeur for all self-respecting bands); we could both write lyrics; and his friend Clinton Smith was willing to […]
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