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Or is it? It’s well known that the US is a nation of overstatement. This was confirmed to me yesterday during my first day here as a human being (fed and slept, that is, after a thirty-two hour journey: Cape Town to Dubai, surely one of the richest places on the globe, but full of [...]

So someone gives you a bag of oranges and they aren’t your favourite fruit, what do you do? Make marmelade, naturally. I’ve made jam once before – strawberry, I believe – and remember the wonder of watching it turn from fruity porridge into jam right before my eyes; another one of those kitchen wonders, like [...]

A lesson from The Washington Post: The first clue that something might have been wrong was when a car pulled into a parking lot in with a “No Parking” sign and post stuck to the front end. A Cumberland Farms clerk called around dawn on Thursday to report the car. When officers showed up, the [...]

It was only a matter of time before I had to try my hand at chilli (aka jalapeno) poppers. I remember the very first one I tried, now many years ago, at the Fat Cactus in Mowbray. Given that South Africa had lived in relative shelter from “real” Mexican food for many years (I’m quite [...]

I believe I hit on something righteous last night while whipping up dinner for a band of gamblers at our kitchen table (in truth, it was training session for my benefit, as I’ll shortly be trying my luck at a casino in the fair Cape town of Worcester, but more on that later). The main [...]