Not sure I completely agree with this essay/article, but it certainly is an interesting point being made. Plus, I’m just happy that it’s not just me ranting about food stuff on the internet – there are at least two of us!
Foodporn Friday
Your weekly dose of fantasy food sure to inspire cravings of the most delectable kind.
I’ll admit, I’m a little obsessed with Carte Noir ads at the moment, but really, after watching this, aren’t you? Rouge is just beautiful – all I want in the world right now is raspberries and chocolate!
The Grumpy Gourmand: Gadget Garbage
When last did you use your avo slicer? Pizza cutter? Apple segmenter? Think back. Think really hard. Have you used it since the two weeks after you bought it? Invariably, the answer is no. I know I most certainly haven’t used my pizza cutter in a while. Though no-one I know seems to use these things much, we all have bottomless kitchen clutter drawers filled with just this kind stuff.
Week in quotes, 6-13 March
Just in case you needed to catch up on the news, here’s this week’s most noteworthy quotes (according to me).
Dinner party etiquette
The old school dinner party. Image: http://www.ladlesandjellyspoons.com
Not being one for clubs, pubs or bars, I seem to do most of my socialising at dinner parties. I just enjoy them so much more than ‘going out’. You can actually talk to people, for one, and engage with interesting topics without having to shout over eardrum-piercing bass or fuzzy speakers with the volume too high. It’s so much cheaper – even for the host. If you get others to provide most of the booze, you can serve six or even eight with less than you’d spend on a drunken night out. You don’t have to deal with people you don’t want to deal with – you invite just who you please. But there are some rules, I feel, to hosting dinner or to being a guest. I found this handy article outlining the do’s and don’ts, and for once, I mostly actually agree with them!
The Grumpy Gourmand: Is yelp really helping?
The next installment of the Grumpy Gourmand: let the rant begin!
I am a people watcher. I stare, I spy, and I often get annoyed while carrying out my voyeuristic pastime. But why do I get annoyed? Bad habits and bad manners – especially in restaurants, drive me up the wall.
Sometimes the bad habits which irritate me so leak out of the bounds of the restaurant, into somewhere much more public, more open, and much more easily found. The internet. This week, my (rant/) column is on a particularly irksome subject: the amateur online review.
Week in quotes, 20-27 Feb 2014
The much maligned Pistorius-themed cookies from Charly’s bakery. TWITTER
To keep us all in the loop about local and global happenings, I will be posting a ‘Week in quotes’ fortnightly. Of course, this will not cover everything that happened in the week, but will act more as a ‘pointer’ to important news to follow.
New Year
My oupie always said that what you do in the beginning of the year is what you’ll be doing for the rest of the year, so I decided to spend it sleeping in, watching Julia Child and making cupcakes. I think it’ll be a good year, right? In the spirit of Cape Town’s Tweede Nuwe Jaar, I’ve decided that today counts as the new year too, so that means blogging counts as what I’ll be doing for the rest of the year too. I found these lucky new year’s recipes which are just beautiful, and I’m thinking of making Momofuko’s ginger scallion noodles for a late lunch. This is going to be a good (and delicious) year, I’m sure of it.
Momofuko ginger scallion noodles. Image: Gabriele Stabile
Getting Clean with I Love My Laundry
I visited I Love My Laundry a little while ago, and loved it. Because they’re so quirky and different, I decided to write my profile on them, rather than on a random semi-famous person. So, here we are
Walking in to I Love My Laundry from the streets of a bustling Saturday morning Cape Town is like breathing in fresh air. It has an atmosphere of calm, yet it is busy. There is an early morning regular here for coffee and breakfast dim-sum with her sons. Wiechert, the manager, is organising bags of laundry, fixing coffee and steaming dim sum all at once. There is much being done, yet there is not an ounce of frenzy in the room.
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