Tag: South Africa

To Market, to Market: Cape Town

To Market, to Market: Cape Town

You know my thoughts on markets. I’ve been lucky to visit some excellent ones here and there. The Old Biscuit Mill is far and away one of the best. See for yourself. Delicious food, check. Live music, check. A DJ, check. Heavenly aromas, check. A 

Where is home?

Where is home?

While I was at the loveliest birthday dinner with our brand-new friends we had met just four days earlier, I was asked what it felt like to call America home. Behind the question was the horrible legacy of slavery and the possibility of rootlessness. “Do 

Love Letters from Cape Town

Love Letters from Cape Town


I recently had the incredibly good fortune to visit South Africa for a project and I was showered with love letters. At every turn, there was beauty, and I took it all in.


I learned, stretched, explored, and rested. And I joyfully tasted.



When your Airbnb has a watermelon cake stand…


South African-style chicken livers


Afternoon tea at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden


Afternoon tea at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden


Nik Naks


Where we met lovely new friends…


Zulu goat cheese with beets

The Gardener

The Gardener

“To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it and then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom. NELSON MANDELA This Black Garden Epistle comes to