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The Secret of Self-Help

By E | Posted on: January 9, 2009
Don’t ask me why he bothered to read to the end of a longish review of The Secret, but courtesy of the Philosophe, I share with you one of the most brilliant reviews of not only this book, but the entire pathetic industry of “life-changing”, “groundbreaking”,  “New Age”, “self-help”: [Plot summary: reader X lives a [...]
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Endless Feasts

By E | Posted on: January 2, 2009
This was our Christmas table, delightfully devoid of “Christmas” food. Instead, a middle Eastern mezze feast, including some pretty delicious Maldivian specialty labelled as tuna/coconut-chilli-and-onion mush. And we did feast in style: this assortment of goodies stretched to three (if not four?) solid meals for ten people. We weren’t entirely without Christmas delights, though: next [...]
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There’s more to life than rumballs

By E | Posted on: December 23, 2008
If you have, like me, decided that there’s no point in Christmas (which is silly anyway) being confined to just one day of the year and that it therefore makes sense to extend the silliness into an entire week, you can keep yourself and a glass of wine busy on a Monday afternoon with, for [...]
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Things to do with crayfish. And muffins.

By E | Posted on: December 20, 2008
It’s a happy day when your mother arrives for a long-anticipated holiday in Cape Town, and you can treat her to a perfect sunset walk on the Sea Point strip, followed by fried calamari at one of the best settings in town (I wish I could say best calamari, but they must share that honour [...]
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Another muffin f**k-up

By E | Posted on: December 12, 2008
So I’m sitting here trying to read about free will, and instead I am willed to the kitchen (why get a brand new one if you don’t spend every minute in it??). I want to bake, but what? If I had a bunch of girlfriends I’d invite them over for what the Danes called julehygge [...]
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No scream

By E | Posted on: December 10, 2008
So I kind of regret that I can’t post a series of pictures and tastings of my various ice-cream endeavours, but I suspect I am “merely” experiencing the same delight that countless other first-time ice-creamers have been through (and blogged about, ad nauseum). But let me tell you this: peanut butter ice (milk/yoghurt) cream is [...]
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I scream, he screams: not the peanut butter!

By E | Posted on: December 4, 2008
Since the philosophe gifted me with an ice-cream maker for our anniversary which is turning out to be a ridiculously fun way to use up wierd things in the (bar) cupboard, I suppose I should start a catalog of the thousand and one flavours which look set to emerge from our (fabulous) kitchen. So far: [...]
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The problem of evil Scandiwegians

By E | Posted on: December 3, 2008
Inhabitants of Færøerne, or the Faroe Islands – aka the evil Danish people who brutally slaughter seals [is there any way a slaughter cannot be brutal??] – must be delighted to hear that the Swedes are now in trouble too, for selling reindeer meat in Ikea. Children around the world must be terrified that they [...]
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A (modest) philosophy of greed

By E | Posted on: November 29, 2008
I have recently taken it upon myself to sit in on a philosophy class. I’ll get no university credits (who needs them?), but hopefully a chance to plug some of the large gaps I have in my philosophy repertoire. This may make me cleverer, or it may just make me a cleverer interlocutor. (Either way, [...]
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A final note on the fish

By E | Posted on: November 27, 2008
So last night saw us at yet another famed-to-be-the-”best” sushi place, which just happens to be down the road from us. (The irony of moving into a new kitchen is that after spending all afternoon sorting things out, the last thing you feel capable of doing is cooking.) I had heard great things about their [...]
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