The original version of this post is in my ‘Flashback’ article in Khuluma inflight mag, Jan 2018 edition Matjiesfontein in the 70’s was magical. To ten year old me it was picture perfect, frozen in time. On the short High Street stood an ox wagon straight out of my Standard …
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This article first appeared in the Sunday Times (SA) on 4 February 2018 As Day Zero edges closer and the prospect of a Peninsula without fresh water becomes a hard and fast reality, anxious Capetonians are shifting into survival mode and devising contingencies to meet the predicament head on, some …
This article first appeared in the Sunday Times SA on 7 January 2018 (pls note the OoM has since closed down and The Commissary is now in its place and Noreen is currently in Singapore) Noreen Dunzo, head bartender at Outrage of Modesty in Cape Town, is a liquid therapist. …
This article first appeared in The Times, 13 December 2017 My croissant première, as I like to call it, was in Cannes on the French Riviera at age 14. I was en France on a ballet tour and for junior me with a bread repertoire generally limited to Portuguese rolls …
Henry Fancourt White was an enterprising fellow. A Yorkshire man, one time parliamentarian and highly regarded member of the George community, he was the first owner of Fancourt, a home that he built in 1859, inspired by the architecture of the Cotswolds in his native England. Today that same property …
Can we please just talk about the bread and butter pudding at the new Tiger’s Milk on Kloof? It’s not often I start a review with a dessert dissection but in this case, I feel this particular carb deserves applause. All that oozy bread embedded with raisins and smothered in …
This article first appeared in City Press newspaper, 13 August edition Float into Venezia Why fly into a city when you can float into it? There’s simply no better way to arrive in Venice, the world’s most unique city that lures 25 million tourists to its fragile shores every …
I’m a petit peu France~obsessed and have just returned from a week in Paris, so when I received the invitation to Societi Bistro’s Tour Through France I was très delighted. The annual culinary journey, now in its 9th year, is happening every week (Wed-Tues) until 26 September, showcasing food from ten …