Category: Food

Possessions

* My jewellery. I house it all in an art supplies box. None of it is really valuable, but certain pieces are talismans of memory. The flower necklace my friend Leanne gave me. The Geraldine Fenn lion pendant my husband gave me for our first anniversary. The Fossil watch my parents gave me on my…
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December 17, 2009
The tyranny of the Christmas turkey

Every year at Christmas time, thousands of South Africans insist on cooking and eating a dry, less flavoursome chicken because “it’s traditional”. For most, it’s the only time of year they’ll eat the giant American bird. Why do people do this? We have our own giant flightless bird to eat. Ostrich meat is richer in…
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December 15, 2009
Broccoli, sex & the office microwave

I recently came across these hilarious office kitchen notes. And it seems that the modern office has become more and more like a polite university residence. Some colleagues even spit in each other’s food (okay, a polite UFS residence then). It’s not surprising really. You didn’t choose to be in a confined space with these…
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October 20, 2009
City of the goddess

I’ll have to sacrifice a bottle of olive oil to my ancestors for saying this, but the Greek changing of the guard is the most absurd thing I’ve ever seen.
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October 7, 2009