The first florentine I ever made was at my English cookery school back in the early 1980s.
When I was young my mother used to sing a song to my brothers and me called, “I’m a Lonely Little Petunia in an Onion Patch.
To witness the near death experience of a dehydrated landscape abruptly transfigure into a swatch of different shades of green is life-affirming.
According to The Kenya Settlers’ Cookery Book and Household Guide, which was first published in 1928, there is a TEST FOR MUSHROOMS. I quote: “With mushrooms one cannot be too careful.
“The shed is burning! The shed is burning!” shouted Cosmos Daka, Chris’s Zambian banana manager, over the radio just as we were finishing breakfast a few days before Christmas.
Mikey & Gypgyp waiting for our first ever visitors, who had traveled to Livingstone from Denmark in February.
