Feeding Time with the Elephants
When The Cook’s Cook magazine in the United States asked me to contribute a feature story to its GREAT OUTDOORS issue, I […]
View ArticlePreparing for L(a)unch at The Elephant Café + Thai-inspired Tilapia Ceviche...
The pounds I gained on our foodie holiday in Ireland and England disappeared fast as a result of the speed with which […]
View ArticleThe Good in Small Things
Our world, it seems, is descending down a refuse-filled vortex not unlike that after you’ve pulled the plug on dirty dishwater. This can’t be happening […]
View ArticleThe Elephant Café is Two Months Old Today
The Elephant Café, in which I am a partner and the Chef de Cuisine, is two months old today. Instead of […]
View ArticleR&R at Tongabezi
Last month, with little warning, Chris bought an air ticket to Greece. His three children had gathered on the island of Paros for […]
View ArticleA Poem on Hope
A new year is a time of promise and hope. Here, I share with you the wisdom of Wendell Berry, the heroic American writer and environmentalist, […]
View ArticleA Garden’s Organic Interdependence (in homage to John Maynard Keynes)
We’ve had the wettest summer since I arrived in Livingstone four years ago. More rain fell in January than the whole […]
View ArticleLUNCH WITH THE ELEPHANTS – My Story in Vanity Fair
On March 8, 2017, Vanity Fair Italia published a story I wrote on my life in Zambia. Many of my […]
View ArticleThe Kindness of the Earth …
… The wonder of a garden Trusting the first warmth of spring Until its black infinity of cells Becomes charged […]
View ArticleA Feature on The Elephant Café & SavannaBel’s Bush Gourmet in S.A.’s Food &...
Much gratitude to Food & Home Entertaining magazine in South Africa for this terrific feature on The Elephant Café and […]
View ArticleA Wet Seed Wild in the Hot Blind Earth
It’s that time of year. August. Late winter on our edge of the Zambezi escarpment. When the earth heats up; […]
View ArticleCreamy Fish Chowder & Smoked Tilapia Pâté
The humble, healthy tilapia, or bream as it’s more commonly known, is the only freshwater fish we consume here because […]
View ArticleA Hiatus
I am taking a break from my blog. We are busy building, I am writing a book, and the spaces […]
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