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The snoek are running in the Cape at the moment and most locals barbecue at least one a week – it’s a cheap, sustainable and absolutely delicious source of protein and, for those that have …

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The Dutch East India Company was responsible for bringing the first Dutch settlers into the country and, in time, they evolved  into that most curious of creature,  the Afrikaner – the Afrikaners consisted of everyone …

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In order to understand the journey of food in South Africa, we need to have a brief look at the Dutch who were the first western settlers at the Cape. When Jan van Riebeeck set …

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Today we begin a new series on the development of South African food so we begin where history begins, before Jan van Riebeeck and his 3 ships landed at the Cape of Good Hope in …

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Cakes baked with shortening and sweet pretzels made their appearance in Rome around the same time that Pope Boniface 8 was planning his millennial celebration but it’s doubtful that the two are related in any …

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Rome is noisy, chaotic and home to a people who love louder than life and live with enough energy to launch a thousand rockets, but it is also home to the most hospitable people on …

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In the 17th century a dessert, quite similar to tiramisu was created in Siena on the occasion of a visit by the Grand Duke Cosimo de’ Medici III (1642-1723), in whose honour it was named …

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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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Economics isn’t rocket science and parents all over the world will find a way of giving their children everything they need – well, almost always but unfortunately for the little ones, not always what they …

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The blueberry hysteria of a few years ago has died down, as such things inevitably do, but that doesn’t mean that the fruit is any less healthy or should be ignored. Come to think of …