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Christigne?

Christigne?

By E on February 9, 2009

Driving home from my swim today, someone wanted to give me an ID cover for free. I told him I don’t want one – I don’t have an ID in this country, being the main point – but he said I should take it, because I look like Christina Aguilera: My boobs are nothing like [...]

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Appe(ar)tisers

Appe(ar)tisers

By E on February 8, 2009

(Wait: why did Appletiser think of that for their new pear drink? Much cleverer than Peartiser. Oh well, two points for me.) Many years ago I went camping with my sister and a friend, and we visited a farm that had a house with a kitchen that I quickly fell in love with and spent [...]

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Postcript, Jamie’s bacon etc.

Postcript, Jamie’s bacon etc.

By E on February 5, 2009

Apropos my musings about the changing face of politics, I excerpt this recent review of Jamie’s Fifteen, by Jasper Gerard, writing for the Telegraph: ‘I turned 40 last year and history has suddenly come alive to me. Before then, I was of course aware of major events that have lit up my lifetime, many deemed [...]

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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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Freaky cakes

Freaky cakes

By E on February 2, 2009

From Cake Wrecks, via the Telegraph.

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Dispatches

By E on January 29, 2009

From the food world: The rise of the “breastaurant” (via Coldmud, via the Food Section) From “life”: Paris Hilton names Gordon Ramsay as the UK Prime Minister (via Coldmud) From “politics”: A good before-the-fact take on Elizabeth Alexander as Obama’s inaugural poet

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Gobble gobble

Gobble gobble

By E on January 24, 2009

Turkey is a particularly cool word in bowling. When you get a turkey, that means three strikes in a row (I also once had a six-pack, but that’s neither here nor anywhere anymore). Turkey is also the bird you sometimes have left in your freezer after a late Christmas meal, so it was only obvious [...]

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Huge knots in Franschhoek

Huge knots in Franschhoek

By E on January 20, 2009

It was in great anticipation that we set off on our weekend of gastronomic adventures in Franschhoek, famed as the culinary capital of this South (with more than one award-winning restaurant, and at least one that ranks in the world’s top 50). We booked ourselves a room at the ever-faithful Protea, which did not disappoint [...]

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The Secret of Self-Help

By E 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

Endless Feasts

By E 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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