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?â
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.
