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Johan Anthonisz van Riebeeck, a ship’s surgeon in the service of the Dutch East India Company, a spice company, was South Africa’s first wine maker.  He was Dutch and it was, therefore, the Dutch …

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There is nothing on earth that I find as loathsome as badly prepared tuna. That has to be the most disgusting meal there is – I’d rather eat an eye!  On my last trip abroad …

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In 1770 an Englishman, John Woodhouse, on his way to Mazara del Vallo to buy soda ash for his father, was caught in a storm on the Sicilian coast and had to seek refuge in …

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In 400 BC the Persians created a new chilled dessert  made from rose water and a type of vermicelli that was served to royalty during summers. The ice was mixed with saffron, a variety of …

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The most positive thing about Sicilian food has to be the multicultural fusion. Sicily has been occupied so many times that the cuisine attained heights that no other Italian food has. The Romans, the Byzantines, …

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Chocolate and wine really is a very good combination. How many of us secretly love eating our favourite chocolate with a glass of incredibly good red wine. Not liqueur or something sweeter – only top …

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Eight hundred years before the birth of Christ, the Italians started making wine – actually the Greeks started making wine when they colonized Sicily so, strictly speaking, it was the Greeks (who didn’t introduce …

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Normally I don’t visit co-ops simply because large scale production of anything that I have to put in my mouth just doesn’t turn me on – coupled with that I had never really taken …

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Throughout the ages food has always been subjected to fashion trends – there’s nothing new about that! There’s also nothing new about criticizing the fashions of the past, the Romans did it and the …

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In Afrikaans there’s a saying: “Die een se dood is die ander se brood” and, literally translated, it means that the death of one man becomes the bread of the other. The European wars …