By now, I assume most of the Mother’s Day Dinners & Lunches in Cape Town are already fully booked and some might be lost on ideas how to celebrate Mother’s Day on Sunday. There are a few alternatives to dining-out! Eat-In sent us some lovely recipe (Chicken Pie, Roast Leg of Lamb, Ouma Corrie’s Malva…
IF ANYONE HAS FOUND MY BALLS, PLEASE LEAVE THEM AT RECEPTION. THANKS. I wrote a funny intro but deleted it. It’s because I didn’t back myself. It was current, funny, it linked perfectly to what I was saying in this review, but couldn’t bring myself to say it. Why? Because I was scared it wasn’t…
“Slutty Egyptian?” I asked, broodingly. “No, wrong crowd.” Responded my hot date, ie. Best Friend. “Oooh… This is nice!” “No, you look like a pregnant, Egyptian ghost.” “What about this one?” “Ya, I like it.” “Is this Egyptian?” I ask the store manager, desperately. She shakes her head, “No, Victorian”. “I’m going naked.” Guilty until…
Sauza’s tongue-in-cheek tequila commercial is pretty much over-the-top in terms of its attempt to appeal to women. The commercial inevitably plays on stereotypes: Women like men in uniform! Women like kittens! Women have tech issues they can’t solve themselves! Women talk endlessly about jeggings and whether they are pants! It’s been exaggerated too often. But…
Going to a museums is not only a pass-time for members of high society anymore. This is certainly the case when talking about Pizza Brain – the new pizza museum that will open its doors in Philadelphia. It is the life’s work of Brian Dwyer who calls himself a professional collector of pizza memorabilia. This however…
Friday, the 11th of May #FoodFact: Potatoes have more nutrients, vitamins and minerals than traditional superfoods! Study: Participants Offered $3500 To Eat Fast Food For 3 Months This almost sounds like a joke — a study from Washington University in St. Louis is recruiting participants to eat only fast food for three months. They’ll be…
The other night I was on the couch -as per usual- and my flatmate put a chicken on the kitchen counter. I wondered what she was doing but carried on watching TV anywhere. She sidled over to me and nonchalantly said, “Look Kayl, we have chicken”. I glanced over at the chicken and noticed that…
Friday, the 4th of May FoodFact: The peach is a member of the rose family and will have a sweet fragrance when ripe. Report: Threat Of Hunger Skyrockets Among Seniors One in seven seniors in America — some 8.3 million people — faced the threat of hunger in 2010, a 78 percent spike since 2001,…
A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to the ever popular Fraiche Ayres restaurants in Rosebank, Cape Town, for the launch of Fraiche Food – a cook book written by Pam & Kyle Miller. The restaurant is part of the Starke Ayres Garden Centre and I hadn’t been before, so I was very excited….
Friday, the 27th April #FoodFact: As bell peppers mature, their color changes from green to red and they become sweeter. Nando’s accepts Santam food challenge Fast food chain Nando’s has accepted a “food challenge” put to it by insurance company Santam, a spokesman said on Thursday. [read more] Why Organic Agriculture May Not Be So…
Where are all the drunks? “I feel like I am at a music festival. A music festival with great food. And clean people.” There have been a lot of people saying how expensive Taste of Cape Town (T0CT) was and to an extent I agree. Early-bird tickets cost R50 and those who bought later, R80….
It was the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic this weekend and the History Channel on DSTV dedicated several hours to documentaries about that tragic day for the past few weeks. Some historians and experts were trying to analyse and understand the wreckage to trace back the events that occurred between hitting the…
