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It was my birthday yesterday, and in the best birthday fashion, it was unlike any other day of the year. The philosophe and I have invented something of a tradition that involves going away for the night – typically somewhere cheap but nice, by the sea, say (or attached to a casino: even better!). The [...]

Some of us already wear the bottoms of our trousers rolled… I am in shock this morning, having just found out that Michael Jackson is dead. It’s not that I’m sad that he’s dead – in fact the sooner he could get out of that crazy life the better for him, I imagine. But he’s [...]

First sat in a brine (of sugar, salt, peppercorns, juniper berries and bay leaves) for 24 hours. Then I unrolled it and rubbed its fat little belly with a top secret blend of herbs and spices (including onion, almonds, currants, citrus peel, thyme, rosemary, all loosened up with a good glug of honeyed grappa): Then [...]

So it was a happy conclusion to many long days (of which the last was possibly the longest? I am convinced that there were actually two hours disguised in every one of yesterday’s) that I could collect the Philosophe from the labyrinthine mess of Cape Town’s “International Airport” last night. Today I’m wearing a t-shirt [...]

There were days, nay months (dare I even confess to a year) when I was obsessed with finding the perfect muffin recipe. Not any old thing that “works”: I needed to recreate the only muffin that I have respect for, which comes from the unlikeliest of places, which is UCT campus. They make (on good [...]