The day a 14-foot python, out hunting for food, strangled our Staffordshire bull terrier to death in front of my mother and me during an evening walk on the farm in Zimbabwe, was the day my scales tipped from wary a
It was my mother who first made me aware of dulce de leche.
The seed for this recipe was sown by Chris after he asked me when I was going to make ravioli using Mongongo nuts.
When I cup seeds in the palm of my hand — be they basil seeds the size of pinheads or crimson-splashed lima beans — and really take the time to examine them, I lose myself.
Is there any living thing out there that doesn’t thrive on the benefits of ginger and turmeric? In the garden the plants play host to a profusion of birds, bees, and wasps … the last of which I discovered
Elephants, in sets of three, lumbered into my consciousness last Friday.
