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If you get up at four in the morning and spend your first cup of coffee reading about recipes (because that’s work) and you know you have a couple of stale muffins sitting around heading for nowhere but the bin, this is what you should do: Slice them up, butter one side and lay the [...]

1 part wodka 1/2 part cordial of some sort (if you have Swedish organic elderflower cordial, so much the better) 1 part lemony fizzy water 1 part Bob’s your Uncle and while you’re there, lorem ipsum

So, in the new twisted world of food and business, it should come as no surprise that Gordon Ramsay, fondly referred to as that tediously sweary gastronome, is the new face of BT (British Telecommunications). Funny, how after the man has proved himself as wily a businessman as chef (it is, after all, quite a [...]

of work, food, sleep, and no time to blog. This is it. I can manage a cursory list, however, of good things ingested recently: Out: last night, braised guinea fowl (on a blahblah risotto, with blahblah sauce) at Rozenhof on Kloof; it was tender and delicious, but too much, particularly after the not-so-light souffle that [...]

Kool-Aid has recently been making headlines in the The New York Times. The latest story is of pickles flavoured with Kool-Aid (apparently a hit with the kiddies). This worries the author: ‘Kool-Aid pickles violate tradition, maybe even propriety. Depending on your palate and perspective, they are either the worst thing to happen to pickles since [...]