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Corona Virus COVID-19: How to boost the Immune System and reduce one’s risk!

 

 

It’s on everyone’s lips. It’s causing mayhem on stock markets around the world. It’s affecting the sporting world with major international events being cancelled or postponed. It’s affecting any large gathering of persons, such as conferences, festivals, trade shows, and exhibitions, many cancelled. And it is starting to affect our tourism industry, with first cancellations hitting hotels. It’s the Corona Virus, this strain called COVID-19. Amongst the doom, gloom, rumours, and Social Media panic, there are ways of reducing one’s risk of contracting the disease. Continue reading →

SA Restaurant trends 2019, less French, more indigenous, lighter, vegan, non-wine pairings!

 

 

I have only just paged through the Eat Out 2020 magazine, and was interested in the article on restaurants trends observed during 2019 whilst Eat Out Head Judge and Chef Margot Janse and her team of judges roamed the country to evaluate our country’s top restaurants for the 2019 Eat Out Awards. Personally, I’m happy to see that table cloths are back in. Nothing worse than eating at a bare table, Continue reading →

Pick n Pay goes ‘nude’, trials plastic-free Fruit and Vegetable shopping!

On Facebook I saw an article that attracted my interest and attention, being a proud litter cleaner in Camps Bay, about Pick n Pay trialing the use of paper bags in its fruit and vegetable departments, and selling these items loose and not pre-packaged, in 13 of its stores around the country. 

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Finding fabulous food in Munich!

imageStaying in Munich for four days, I did day-time outings to what are regarded food temples of the city, including Dallmayr, Kaiser, and the Viktualienmarkt. Most impressed, others were disappointing.I certainly fell in love with tomatoes on my trip, imageand the rich red shiny stemmed tomatoes attracted not only my attention, but also that of my Facebook followers. I do not recall having seen such fresh looking and smelling tomatoes anywhere in our country. What was an even bigger surprise was the very reasonable Continue reading →