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Not so excellent

By E | Posted on: August 30, 2010
Here are the things you may not do on the Wheel of Excellence: In other words, no slouching about looking cool (thanks to the Philosophe for the articulate picto-analysis), no throwing out the Rock when you’re playing *that* game, and no showing off the soles of your shoes. You are also not permitted to smoke, [...]
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The blue Cosmopolitan that was

By E | Posted on: August 21, 2010
I’ve been nurturing a craving for cosmopolitan(s). I blame the sun, which has been shining on Cape Town a most unusual amount this “winter”, and has caused more than one person to utter the words “spring has sprung” in the last two weeks. First spring, then summer, and before we know it, the silly season [...]
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The martini that never was

By E | Posted on: August 14, 2010
Once, at our favourite drinking hole, the Philosophe and I had the audacity to question whether our vodka-and-limes had been watered down because (double shots though they were) we couldn’t taste the vodka. Much to our embarrassment, it was simply because they had used a superior (=more expensive) brand of vodka, one clearly too sophisticated [...]
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Getting what you ask for

By E | Posted on: August 8, 2010
Anthony Bourdain once challenged the audience at one of his speaking gigs to “Go home and Google Sandra Lee and Kwanzaa cake and … count how long it’s going to take for your head to explode.” And in another interview: “Watch that clip and tell me your eyeballs don’t burst into flames.” So of course [...]
Posted in Cooking, Food Media, Rants | Tagged Anthony Bourdain, coconut cake, Kwanzaa cake, Sandra Lee, Sex and the City 2 | 1 Comment

Things you don’t want to know – but probably should

By E | Posted on: July 29, 2010
I recently watched a new Danish film called The Woman That Dreamed About A Man (or Kvinden der drømte om en mand, if you’re a native). It’s certainly not director Per Fly’s best work, but decent enough psycho-thriller entertainment when that’s what you need. Anyway, there’s one of those typically raunchy scenes when two strangers [...]
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Country eating..and eating…and still eating

By E | Posted on: July 21, 2010
When you are invited to spend the weekend contemplating scenery like this, it is only proper that you devote a few days to thinking about food before the fact, so that nothing can get in the way of two days of carefully planned indolence (not to mention that there are no shops, so if you [...]
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Strawberries soaked in vodka fail to impress

By E | Posted on: July 11, 2010
So after my recent bold declaration that this Doctor’s brownie adventures are officially over, I was naturally confronted with all sorts of Facebook banter offering yet more tips and tricks for that thing I had just renounced. The most evil of these was a recipe which calls for cocoa powder dissolved in hot water (rather [...]
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The search for a perfect brownie

By E | Posted on: July 7, 2010
stops here. And this is not it.
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If I were a TV cook…

By E | Posted on: July 3, 2010
(or a cookbook author for that matter), I could imagine myself delivering all number of clever little tips and tricks – as they do – to give people the idea that I sit around and think hard and long about what works and what doesn’t. For my (to die for) “caramelized brussel sprouts with pecan [...]
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‘ʁøðgʁøːˀð mɛð ‘fløːðɛ

By E | Posted on: June 23, 2010
So last night I had my Nigella moment. Some friends are exhibiting at an upcoming art event in Roskilde (that’s in Denmark, where the big annual rock festival happens), and the theme is “Localities”. Being the charming Doing it for Daddy girls, they decided to subvert the expected take on South Africa and instead make [...]
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