I am one of those annoying people that hardly ever gets sick. Like my father (who never spent a night in hospital in his life until the fall that broke his hip and ultimately led to his demise), the worst that happens to me is the occasional 24-hour tummy bug, or maybe the sniffles. All […]
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Taverna kitten, Agios Stephanos – Corfu, September 2011
Click here for a full portionBraai, the Beloved Country: the 2011 roundup
Aaah, the South African braai. That thing of legends that strikes fear into the hearts of English neighbours but brings South African neighbours together. The cross-cultural, non- language-biased, age-neutral activity that all South Africans indulge in with an equal fervour. Because, let’s be honest – who can resist the smell of food cooking over […]
Click here for a full portionPerfect palmiers with pistounade from Provence
Hyperbole. Litotes. Alliteration. Onomatopeoia. Pun. Oxymoron. Hands up – who knows which of the above literary devices I used in the title to this post? You see, despite this glossy facade of food bloggerness which you see before you, deep down I am just a language nerd. Case in point: I have been going through […]
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Boat reflections, Corfu, Greece – September 2011
Click here for a full portionMy Corfu love affair… and whole seabass on the barbecue
When I was at school, one of my favourite books that I read over and over was Gerald Durrell’s My Family and Other Animals. I remember being fascinated by his stories of childhood, a childhood so completely different to mine as to be unimagineable. Bizarrely, the thing that stuck with me most is that […]
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