A South African nibbles on the world
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Everybody loves a winner. They get the gold medals. They get to stand at the top of the podium. They have songs written about them. It's a good thing we love them - because I am about to announce 35...
[As I am currently on holiday, this is an edited re-posting of one of the first traditional South African desserts that I ever posted on this blog, over five years ago in 2004. The photo is also from 2004, before...
King Protea - December 2009 The King Protea or Protea Cynaroides is a flowering plant in the family Proteaceae (which family, incidentally, belongs to the same order of plants as plane trees and lotus flowers - the order Proteales). Proteaceae...
H2Ope for Haiti update - I hope that you have all heard by now that the deadline for entering the H2Ope for Haiti charity raffle has been extended until midnight GMT on Sunday 7 March. The event is raising money...
If you are planning to drive South Africa's Garden Route between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, there are dozens of places where you could break your journey, and each would offer a unique beauty. But one of the places that...
London Docklands sunset - September 2009 You don't have to love aeroplanes to live in London - but it helps. We have the world's busiest airport (most international-bound passengers), London Heathrow, to the west but also London Gatwick, London Luton,...
So let's talk housekeeping first, and no, I'm not talking about the vacuuming, the dusting and the ironing. It's CookSister housekeeping (which is a lot more fun anyway!). H2ope for Haiti update - and an extension! As you are now...
I don't know about anybody else, but I grew up in awe of coffee table books. For a start, unlike most other people I knew, my parents had a large, low table in the lounge that was in fact specifically...
After the terrible earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January this year I, like many people, felt overwhelmed by the enormity of the disaster. But a first-hand account from a friend who had flown a relief flight to Haiti after...
Parabola - Plettenberg Bay, December 2009 Visionary Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser once wrote: "The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity." He would have loved the Beacon Island Hotel in Plettenberg Bay, South Africa. From the outside, the hotel...
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