Mint and cucumber is a combination that, I recently found out, is as effective in the spa as it is in the kitchen.
Three years ago today, I flew out of a desert — Botswana’s Makgadikgadi Salt Pans that reflected so well my own emptiness — and landed on a piece of Africa tucked into the edge of the Zambezi Valley
“What’s in a name? That which we call a [lima bean] by any other name would [taste] as sweet.
How do you explain companion planting to a visiting geologist, in other words, “a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth, as well as the processes and history that have shaped it?�
Karen Blixen wrote in her classic memoir, Out of Africa, “There is a particular happiness in giving a man whom you like very much good food that you have cooked yourself.
I’ve loved the band, Queen, for as long as I can remember.
