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This week was very special to me because my first grandson was born to my only daughter and son-in-law (what a lame name for a child so loved by a family) and they live halfway …

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It was bound to happen sooner or later, wasn’t it? After all, South Africa is an African country and democracy & everything that goes with it is clearly not an African concept. Here the honourable …

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South Africa during the FIFA World Cup ™  is thick with holiday makers, tourists and children who are missing 6 weeks of school – really festive and really exciting. As could have been expected, the …

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If you though that  Top of the Needle* in Seattle was a world first, you were wrong – it seems the Romans were there long before because at the end of September 2009, the Italians discovered …

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Whilst it may be difficult to believe, there may come a time when the food we eat today is considered primitive  or even vulgar and the chefs of the future shudder at the thought of …

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I’ve long advocated the use of spices not simply because they improve the taste of food but because they’re just so darn healthy and have been used in countries like India for millennia and on …

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Every year scientists are given huge amounts of money by the larger corporations to find ways in which junk food can be turned into healthier junk food.  The corporations have no option because the junk …

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In the past couple of years, pears have become fashionable and for once, fashionable food is actually worth eating,  as a matter of fact, pears are really rather delicious when turned into cakes or desserts, …

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A damoclean sword fell, almost decapitating press freedom in South Africa this past week and it’s so serious that we had to clear our tables today and use them for something other than food. Below …

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The first time a hominin, in the form of Homo Habilis, walked on earth it was 2,2 million years ago in Africa and proof in the form of his fossilized remains were found in Tanzania …