My storm-tossed and weather-beaten 1974 edition of the JOY OF COOKING appears shabby and sad beside the new shiny 1999 volume. But tattered and stained as it is, sadness is definitely not a feeling that spring to mind. Instead it jolts me back to happy times and recalls a hundred ‘premier‘ food occasions: – my [...]
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The Joy of Cooking
Posted in Africa on December 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A sabbatical in Africa…
Posted in Africa on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A year in Malindi… I have been here now for two months – ‘here’ being Malindi, on the east coast of Kenya in East Africa. Having completed most of the preparation work (establishing basic communication lines, renting a little tree house and buying a 22-year-old four-wheel-drive) I can now settle down into what the calm [...]