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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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Foodball

By E | Posted on: June 12, 2010
So yesterday the cork popped on the much anticipated goose-fest. It was a long, hard day which required careful planning and execution, all moving backward from the final, and BIG event, which was us in the stadium for the Cape Town kick-off at 8.30pm. Resigned to the fact that there would be little parking, we [...]
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Don’t touch me on my gees

By E | Posted on: June 8, 2010
Yesterday I tweeted that ‘Cape Town looks like a bumper car track. Roads full of little cars with little flags. Beep Beep. Madness begins. I will survive.’ The darling (football-mad) Philosophe thought that wasn’t a very nice thing to say. Not in the gees. Along with vuvuzela, gees is one of the words of the [...]
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The Little Mermaid

By E | Posted on: May 31, 2010
In Peru, there is a little girl who was born with a mermaid’s tail. To you and I, that means she was born with a rare condition called sirenomelia (siren apparently being Latin for mermaid). When you have sirenomelia, you are born with your legs fused together. Like a mermaid. But also with the problem [...]
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Foodwang

By E | Posted on: May 16, 2010
In the immodest tradition of first camera, then fork, scenes from lunch at the splendid Waterkloof:
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Wobble wobble toil and trouble

By E | Posted on: May 2, 2010
It’s been a wobbly week.
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