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COMPETITION: Win 2 Tickets to Taste of Cape Town
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Thu, 11/03/10 – 12:42 | View Comments

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Today we are announcing a competition for all our loyal Cape Town based readers, or any of our readers who will be in Cape Town at the time.
We are giving away a double entrance …

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One Country, Two Worlds – Paris and Corsica
Thursday, 2 Jul, 2009 – 22:33 | View Comments
One Country, Two Worlds – Paris and Corsica

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Any visit to France usually starts with Paris because it’s the capital and the biggest airports can be found there. The city has been inhabited since 4000 BC when there was a settlement near Bercy, …

Sweet Simplicity – The Forgotton Taste
Thursday, 12 Mar, 2009 – 17:36 | View Comments
Sweet Simplicity – The Forgotton Taste

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To feast or to fast was the question in Medieval Europe and great pains were taken to disguise the gluttony of the wealthy. Jean de Berry, brother of King Charles V, lived in 15 th …

Pizza Perfect
Wednesday, 5 Nov, 2008 – 15:29 | View Comments
Pizza Perfect

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The pizza that put Naples on the map,  is the Pizza Margherita that was first baked in 1889 by a local baker named Raffeale Esposito. He was asked to and, therefore, created the pizza in …

Bread, France – the Baguette
Monday, 22 Sep, 2008 – 16:19 | View Comments
Bread, France – the Baguette

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Today the baguette is roughly 100 years old.  A true Parisian bread, it has become an international symbol of French bread and I have never really understood why since there are simply so many others …

Five Things To Know About Bread – part 1
Friday, 16 May, 2008 – 14:19 | View Comments
Five Things To Know About Bread – part 1

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Who made the first bread ? When? Where? In order to answer this question one would have to back in time to the discovery of fire when man learnt how to cook food which, if …