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Textured ceramics
I’ve been obsessed with texture for the past few months, especially with textured ceramics, and more particularly white ceramics. It started when I discovered Luna Porcelain. I love their marine and...
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Fenjal: A bath essential
Sylvia Plath once said “There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.” I couldn’t agree more with her more. Soaking in a hot bath is my go-to “cure-all”....
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Savour: No ordinary book
“This book will allow you to eat your words… literally.” I received a copy of this (fairly) new South African book for my birthday this year and I was delighted to discover it’s no ordinary cookbook....
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Your brain at work
I’ve just finished reading David Rock’s Your Brain at Work and wow – what a great book! It’s perfect for anyone who wants to focus better at work and have better relationships with colleagues, friends...
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Through the eyes of giants
If you’ve never been to Amatuli Artefacts you should really go and have a look one Saturday morning. This décor shop features thousands of African artefacts (everything from Kudu horns to sea grass...
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Jamie Oliver’s peri-peri sauce
You say piri-piri… I say peri-peri? Alright. Why does this hot sauce have such a spelling-identity-crisis? Google (AKA old-faithful) has an answer… Pili-pili is the Swahili word for pepper-pepper. So...
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Alchemy and salad dressing
I’ve always thought cooking is something akin to alchemy. With a little bit of imagination and a dash of science a batch of completely-unrelated ingredients can transform into something (that is...
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Goleman on Focus
The ability to focus today is becoming a daunting challenge. More and more I hear people complaining that there are just too many distractions (take a look at a recent article published by Time on...
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Nina Garcia’s top 100
I’ve read quite a few books on fashion and beauty over the last two years. But only two have really “stayed with me”: How to Look Expensive by Andrea Pomerantz Lustig and Nina Garcia’s The One Hundred....
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Miss Paltrow’s bath soak
Gwyneth Paltrow recently shared a favourite bath soak recipe on her blog GOOP. It’s a simple recipe that will keep you warm and healthy all winter long. According to her blog, the sea salt bath gives...
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SIMPLE SUPPERS
A cook who writes. That’s how Nigel Slater describes himself. And I love it. There’s something different about the way he cooks. His meals are simple but soul-satisfying. And I like how he combines...
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28 LESSONS IN A YEAR
One of the most valuable things I’ve done over the past two years is to keep a journal. It’s not your typical ‘what I did today’ kind of journal. No. It’s more like an inventory of all the ‘AHA’...
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