My partner and I have been living in ‘VanCity’ for almost a year now. I’ll take a small moment to mourn South African summer, the dry heat of Joburg, and the beachy bliss of Cape Town. But that is not why you are reading this, is it? I once read this article by Natalie Roos,…
A Jo’ burg foodies guide to Cape Town
Ola 2015! Did you guys have fun this December? I ventured down to the Mother City along with the rest of Johannesburg/the world over the holidays. But man, how do you even begin to deny that Cape Town is so mind blowingly beautiful, showing off all her assets like she is fresh outta Silicone City,…
Cookie Dough and a soetkoekies recipe
Have you ever felt like you where kneading away at life’s cookie dough for hours waiting for the right consistency? And it’s taking eons to feel just right. Man, it’s just so sticky isn’t it? So you add a bit more flour and it becomes too stiff, a splash of water and mush of pasty…
Soul Food, for love and then some.
Have you ever been seduced by an onion? I’m re-reading this book at the moment called The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Newmark. The descriptions in this book are superlative. I love writers that make you feel like a fly on the wall in real-time. There is one particular description that made me weak,…
On Italian at Cosa Nostra
, You know how sometimes you watch those stereotypical scenes where old Italians are dallying in backgammon, their chino’d legs folded under skewed tables, a Chesterfield Red hangs unforgivingly from the corner of their chapped lips while the smoke caresses their thick black mustache creating a cloud of I-don’t-give-a-fuck halo around their fedora’s? Down we…
foodie footfalls 