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mislead you into thinking that all the time I am not posting anything here I am busy reading Marx. That would be a misrepresentation. In fact I’ve been involved in some indulgent socialising. On Saturday night there was the rabbit fiesta. The specific recipe was taken from this book, I believe: Unfortunately I didn’t get [...]

I’ve just read this line: ‘…a strategy is needed that defends the media from both public and private power, and enables the media to serve the wider public through critical surveillance of all those in authority’. It comes from an essay on the so-called watchdog function of the media (this can be interpreted in many [...]

My Puttanesca take on Jamie’s Pasta alla Norma (well, we all know it’s not “Jamie’s”. But the inspiration came from a picture in a magazine which was taken from a picture from his book. I wish I could say it came from an old woman I once grew to love in an Italian village. But [...]

OK, so I started with dessert. A friend left some naartjies (tangerines? clementines?). As I mostly feel like tucking into a Golden Delicious when I’m in the mood for fruit, I decided to turn them into this cake. The recipe is for a moist orange cake, so I guess that makes it a moist naartjie [...]