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Strawberries soaked in vodka fail to impress

Strawberries soaked in vodka fail to impress

By E 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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If I were a TV cook…

If I were a TV cook…

By E 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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In my not so humble opinion

In my not so humble opinion

By E on May 13, 2010

Cape Town does like to think of itself as part of the big cosmopolitan world, so it’s no surprise that in recent years, there have cropped up a bunch of self-styled “foodie” blogs in the Mother City. Yes, this *could* be considered one too, but the bunch I’m thinking of are the ones who set [...]

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That’s Reality…wang.

That’s Reality…wang.

By E on April 13, 2010

Talking about the surprising popular success in 1988 of a near-700 page book called The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000, Francis Wheen cites the New Republic‘s comment that ‘When a serious work of history with more than a 1000 footnotes starts selling in Stephen King-like quantities, [...]

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Is “junk” food addictive?

Is “junk” food addictive?

By E on April 2, 2010

In the same week that (just in time for Easter!) we are (again) told that chocolate is “good for you”, come these depressing headlines: Depressing not because of the news itself, but because of how that news inevitably is – has been, will be – abused by lazy reporting and lazy reading. True to the [...]

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Gotcha!

Gotcha!

By E on April 1, 2010

I was so annoyed when I blogged about Killer At Large last night that I forgot to mention one of my main irritations during the film. That was probably as it should be, because I needed to do a little research to confirm my suspicions, and now I have.

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The killers at large

The killers at large

By E on April 1, 2010

So I’m watching this documentary, Killer At Large. It’s about obesity, in case you missed the pun. And after one talking head in the form of a rabbi, I start noticing how more and more talking heads are actually talking churches. There’s the imam, there’s the reverend, there’s the monseigneur. This must be truly “objective”, [...]

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Saving bacon

By E on February 4, 2009

So I finally got a chance to watch Jamie Saves Our Bacon, part of Channel 4′s Great British Food Fight, which has now confirmed the previously unofficial canon of food vocalists, or chefs who shout at us about what and how we should be eating: Heston, Hugh, Jamie, and Gordon (to be fair, Heston doesn’t [...]

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