Isn’t it funny how a single smell or sound can transport you instantly from the here and now into the way back when? For me, the smell of a certain air freshener whisks me back to Grahamstown in the early 1990s. I was staying in a motel on my own for two weeks, conducting the hopeless pro bono […]
Click here for a full portionSteak on a blue cheese, spinach & pecan risotto
As I have said before, I do love a good simile. One of my favourite wine-related similes is this: Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it’s our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you’d like to have […]
Click here for a full portionSaturday snapshots #178
The Mother Ship – light fittings, London, January 2012
Click here for a full portionThe London Cooking Club cooks… South African!
A long time ago in a faraway land, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, encyclopaedias were made of paper, and blogging was in its infancy, a very lovely friend of mine Johanna had an idea. She was about to have her second baby and knew that she would be housebound for a while, but she […]
Click here for a full portionRestaurang Familjen, Gothenburg
The story so far: a dramatic landing in high winds, a lost suitcase (mine); a shattered umbrella (Su-Lin’s); and enough relentless rain to make me look nervously around for a big boat and a beardy guy herding pairs of animals on board. Spectacular shopping had gone some way to soothing out frazzled nerves, but what we really […]
Click here for a full portionSausage and cannellini bean gratin with kale and Parmesan
In the late summer of 2010 we rented a villa on the Costa Tropical in Spain, near Almunecar (which turns out to be the source of every cherimoya fruit I’ve seen since!). The villa was gorgeous, perched high up on a hillside with a 180 degree view of the blue Mediterranean and spectacular sunsets […]
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