Food

Proof-reading fail – Peggy Porschen’s Boutique Baking

If you’re anything like me you like to have all your soldiers in a row, all your ingredients weighed and measured or your ‘mise en place’.  I recently bought Peggy Porschen’s Boutique Baking: Delectable Cakes, Cupcakes and Teatime Treats and set about baking the Neopolitan Marble Cake…

A postcard from South Africa

On a recent trip to South Africa, I was lucky enough to get a behind-the-scenes look at the pome fruit and stone fruit industry.  I met farmers and workers, visited charity projects, found out how the farmers battle with the fruit fly and best of all tasted…