Posts tagged ‘Fietas Museum’

Oct 12

[Exit, pursued by a warthog.]

Kindly readers! I shall be away for a week or so, finishing a manuscript at Pullen Farm in the lowveld. I believe there may be warthogs. I have packed, of course, a copy of C. Louis Leipoldt’s Bushveld Doctor. And a lot of mosquito repellent.

In the meanwhile, I leave you:

This piece I wrote for Africa is a Country about Johannesburg’s newest museum in Fietas.

This photograph of street food in Fordsburg:

This new video from the Lumineers:

And these links:

How will climate change affect agriculture in southern Africa?
The US government shutdown poses a risk to food safety.
Traffic fumes prevent bees from finding flowers.
Vegetables are being left to rot on South African farms.
Are GM, organic, community-owned farms the future of agriculture?
Searching for new, climate change-resistant varieties of lettuce.
Using food trucks to end food deserts.
What really goes into chicken nuggets?
‘the brain knows that low-calorie or no-calorie sweeteners are imposters.’
When chocolate was used as currency.
An interview with Rachel Laudan.
The theft of 600 pumpkins.
What 9/11 had to do with the rise of Paula Deen.
How to make your own soft brown sugar.
A guide to garlic.
The hangover face repair guide.
What does the Underground taste like?
Death by hazelnut – a conundrum.
A tasting menu from … McDonald’s.
Dinner Lab.
A potato that looks like a sheep.
Popcorn, the affordable luxury.
Hundreds of uses for vinegar (all of them non-culinary).
A review of The Dog’s Bollocks in Cape Town.
Candy corn.
How to make a watermelon slice cushion.
Cooking for Paul Dacre.
Farming octopi.
Celebrities matched to vegetables.
Julia Child’s list of alternative titles for Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
‘Within minutes of consuming the alcohol, Swino lost control, starting a fight with a cow and demolishing nearby tents and rubbish bins in his hunt for a midnight snack, recklessly swimming into the middle of a river, before eventually collapsing underneath a log.’
Beautiful corn.
Wooden or plastic chopping boards?
Make your own cultured butter.
These links are courtesy of my mum:
A brief history of Worcester sauce.
‘Branston Pickle lorry crashes near Cheddar.’
Food in medieval Sicily.