african vanielje on Jan 10 2008 | Filed under: Apples and Thyme, Fruit, food blogging event, kitchens, mothers
My mother is the original Kitchen Alchemist. At least she is to me. A complete original, it is in her kitchen, where I learned to cook, that I absorbed her alchemical approach to cooking. The combination of magic and science is indivisible in her world and I never realised until I was in [...]
african vanielje on Nov 19 2007 | Filed under: chicken dishes, spices
When you grow up with stories of Dutch East India Spice routes and more than a little Malay kitchen influence, there is no way you can get away with not mixing your own spices. My mother used to get hers from a Durban spice merchant who bought direct from India. Her curries would be rich [...]
african vanielje on Nov 14 2007 | Filed under: food blogging event, kitchens, mothers
Well, I know I love my mom, but I had no idea that so many of you out there are just as passionate as I am about your moms, grannies, nanas, aunties, surrogate mothers and grandmothers, mother-in-laws, and any other women that shaped and moulded you into who you are today . (To be fair, [...]
african vanielje on Nov 11 2007 | Filed under: kids cooking
Every day or so I get an email from my mom. I speak to her regularly on skype, but I also get these additional little snippets, like notes in my lunchbox, or a bunch of fresh picked garden flowers in an antique vase on my bedside table. Because that’s what my mom does. She finds [...]
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