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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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Cooking without spices seems unthinkable and unbearably boring – so, because we’ve already covered salt and pepper recently, we’ve decided to continue in this vein and include spices on the shopping list. The use of spices …
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The Greeks believe that eating out and sharing one’s meal is as important as the food itself – it’s known as paraia – and in Lawrence Durrell’s words, it’s a transcendence of the dinner table …
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Around 400 BC, the Greeks often held banquets like the Symposium where much was discussed and wine was consumed in vast quantities. The affair started in the early evening when the host’s wife and his …
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The Capital of Greece is Athens and it is here where democracy was first debated and then born, where the wise men of old first developed the basics of education, medicine and law and it …
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The region of Tikves in the heart of Macedonia has always been identified with it’s viniculture. The Mediterranean climate of the Vardar river valley with it’s rich thermal and mineral sources, fertile soil, several lakes …
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Côte d’Ivoire has often been in the news lately because of vehement political differences between the parties – so vehement, in fact, that some of the clashes caused fatalities – which really is nothing new …
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Abidjan is set astride a lagoon and today is home to about 2,7 million people – it’s a modern city with French as the common language for doing business although most people can speak or, …
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More than half of the world’s plantains grow between the coast of West Africa and the Zaire basin which is probably why these snacks are so popular in the Ivory Coast. For those of you …
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This slow-cooked chicken stew is a popular dish in the Cote d’Ivoire, where the less-than-tender poultry benefits from the long cooking time – it is sometimes prepared by wrapping the ingredients in banana leaf packets …
