Category Archives: Food

Ramadan 2013

Muslims the world over have been preparing throughout the first half of 2013 for the holy month of Ramadan, the most sacred month in the Islamic calendar with dawn-to-dusk fasting, prayers and spiritual introspection. The fast, one of the five pillars … Continue reading

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21st Century Addictions: Popcorn

My fellow movie-goers, be alert; not alarmed. For your beloved super-sized bucket of salty, buttery movie theatre popcorn holds more than your average day’s worth of fat allowance. Yes, indeed, that popcorn you are cradling in your arms, juggling a … Continue reading

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30 Days of Gratefulness: Ramadan-Day 17 Breakfast

OK OK I will admit it: I am not a devotee of eating a hearty meal during breakfast time. Nothing appeals less than the exertions required in chewing and swallowing fibrous ingredients of a nutritionally sound meal before my engine … Continue reading

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30 Days of Gratefulness: Ramadan Part 16 – Lunch

Seared tuna steak. That’s what I am feeling for today for lunch. Seared tuna. Done rare. Yes, rare tuna steak. Lets see just how delicious and satisfying a meal consisting of tuna and salad greens can be when ordered in … Continue reading

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30 Days of Gratefulness-Ramadan Part 14: Cake

Who can ever ignore a beautifully decorated cake? How the sight of one enchants us all and affords endless potential for discussion points! A friend of mine exhibits extraordinary aptitude for inventing spectacular designs in cake-decorating, and each time she forges another unique arrangement, … Continue reading

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30 Days of Gratefulness-Ramadan Part 2: Home Cooking

Two years ago I experienced Southern hospitality when visiting Tennessee for the very first time. The occasion was momentus: meeting my husband’s dad and his wife Karen, their adult kids – Erroll’s step sisters – and their brood of kids. And of … Continue reading

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Yo! Yoghurt You are So Yum

How irritating: I was born lactose-intolerant. Tasty, creamy milk is a No-Go-Zone unless I wish to suffer endless stomach cramps and harried trips to the port-a-loo in which ever neighbourhood I am “struck”. But what of yoghurt? Do I eat yoghurt? … Continue reading

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Wedding Cake

…and the crowd yelled “we want CAKE!” Ah, the hungry wedding guests shall be subdued only, and finally, with a piece of your delicious and prettily decorated wedding cake. Its true! Family and friends wish only to gush over its style, colour, tiers … Continue reading

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Armani Hotel, Dubai – Part II

An invitation that was not ignored: to participate and to shoot the launch of Armani Hotel Dubai’s, ‘Cooking Master Class’. Yes, indeed: Armani Hotel’s Specialty Head and Sous Chefs taking the Foodie Writers, Journalists and Photographers of Dubai on a gastronomical … Continue reading

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Choose Juicy

Who would have thought the simple necessity (for some) and pleasure (for most) of the ingesting of a daily breakfast meal could be fraught with so many decision points? Firstly, to eat or not to eat; that is one person’s … Continue reading

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