Photo courtesy and © of the One&Only Resort Cape Town “So what is South African food all about?”, is a question I am often asked here in London. It’s a question I dread almost as much as “So where can I get a decent South African meal in London?”, to which I am […]
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Multi-faceted – Waterkloof winery, Cape Town – June 2012
Click here for a full portionPret a Diner (Italians do it Better)
“This is not a pop-up restaurant – this is a real Italian Dining experience” read the blurb on the Pret A Diner website. Having already had what I consider to be a quintessential Italian dining experience, involving long tables on a village square in Zibello; plates of freshly made pasta;much laughter and banter over the […]
Click here for a full portionFarro and roasted vegetable salad – an Olympic dish
So… rumour has it that a certain Very Very Large Sporting Event is about to take place, virtually in my back yard here in London. For almost 12 years we have lived in what most west-Londoners considered a distant and drab backwater of the capital (pretty much how most west-Londoners regard anything east […]
Click here for a full portionPlate to Page Somerset: 14 women, 1 man and a dog, Part II
Photo courtesy and © of Ilva Beretta The story so far: for the third Plate to Page workshop, 11 participants and 4 instructors had travelled from far and wide to congregate at Meare Court Farm in Somerset for a weekend of learning, teaching, photographing, writing, laughter and friendship. The first day and a half […]
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Out of the darkness: pyracanthus flowers – London May 2012
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