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A lesson from The Washington Post: The first clue that something might have been wrong was when a car pulled into a parking lot in with a “No Parking” sign and post stuck to the front end. A Cumberland Farms clerk called around dawn on Thursday to report the car. When officers showed up, the [...]

It was only a matter of time before I had to try my hand at chilli (aka jalapeno) poppers. I remember the very first one I tried, now many years ago, at the Fat Cactus in Mowbray. Given that South Africa had lived in relative shelter from “real” Mexican food for many years (I’m quite [...]

I believe I hit on something righteous last night while whipping up dinner for a band of gamblers at our kitchen table (in truth, it was training session for my benefit, as I’ll shortly be trying my luck at a casino in the fair Cape town of Worcester, but more on that later). The main [...]

I’ve had a standing debate with the man I eventually married about the evils (he calls them wonders) of the microwave. I conceded a long time ago that they are good for heating milk for coffee (which I do every morning), and good enough for re-heating old coffee (which I do occasionally). They can also [...]

It was in the wake of a trip to the country, where apples grow on trees rather than in supermarkets, that I ended up with more apples than (even) I could eat. I also had leftover prunes after recently sending a couple of devils on horseback onto the braai (aka barbecue) for crisping, so the [...]