Back in the 1980s and 1990s when I travelled abroad from South Africa, I remember that the main thing people always asked me to bring back was perfume and aftershave. Some things were just cheaper abroad (this was before the Rand exchange rate tanked!) and some products simply weren’t available in South Africa yet – […]
Click here for a full portionSpiced apple, maple and toasted pecan oat porridge
When I was a tiny baby, my mom (who was a rank novice in the parenting game at the time) had read that the first thing she should try to feed me when she was weaning me onto solid foods was mashed banana. Sensible: it’s packed with nutrients and of a consistency that even a tiny […]
Click here for a full portionLisa McGuigan wines at the Gaucho Grill
They say you should never judge a book by its cover – or a bottle of wine by its label. Too often I have been seduced by the siren call of a gorgeous and well-designed label on a supermarket shelf, only to find that the contents of the bottle in no way live up to […]
Click here for a full portionDukley Beach Lounge, Montenegro
I have friends who research their forthcoming trips with the zeal of Francis Crick on the night before he cracked the DNA code. They can tell you about the population, climate and geopolitical history of the country; who its presidents have been; what its farmers grow; and how many times they have won Eurovision. They […]
Click here for a full portionReview: Tredwell’s from Marcus Wareing
Click on Marcus Wareing’s entry in Wikipedia and it reads like London restaurant-themed miniseries. There are restaurant openings, restaurant closures, legal battles, celebrity chef appearances, television appearances, long-standing feuds (with Gordon Ramsay, no less) and a flurry of Michelin stars. In fact, move over The 100 Foot Journey – this is a racy foodie movie waiting to happen. You’d […]
Click here for a full portionVenicefoto 2014 workshop – creativity flowing on the Strada del Prosecco
“For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery, back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.” So wrote the wonderful D.H. Lawrence many decades ago […]
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