Orange, lime, garlic, cumin and paprika barbecue chicken Ingredients Chicken Marinade Method Ralf Note This one is more Argentina-style. You stand there like a small soldier of the chicken. Turn it round, turn it round, baste it all the time. Baste: a very important word for civilisation.
This week’s Pineapple Postcard comes from Lyme Regis in Dorset, one of those small English seaside towns that seems to have accumulated far more stories than it has any reasonable right to. It sits on the Jurassic Coast, where the cliffs and beaches expose an extraordinary geological record and the area around Lyme is particularly…
Ralf has bought the mobile home, Manfred has twenty years of camping behind him, and Martin is beginning to wonder whether he should start playing the lottery. Ralf and his wife have bought a mobile home. Not because they want to park it somewhere and create a smaller version of the life they already have,…
From the cab of a 26-ton truck, Fabrice sees ordinary streets from a different height. The view is better. The responsibility is heavier. And what looks easy from outside is often anything but. A Different View. Janita asked me what would surprise her first if she climbed into my truck tomorrow morning. She has been…
Just when you think winter is finally packing its bags and heading out the door, the universe decides to change the locks. We were all coasting along, waiting for the calendar to tick over to the first of September, expecting those first warm hints of spring. Instead, the weather page turned and said: Not yet….
On Friday morning, The Mayor sent a message: “I will send you a message later. Nothing dramatic or serious, don’t worry.” Naturally, my mind went into an immediate spin. What could this possibly be about? But after spending the entire sunny afternoon on a cricket pitch—watching seven-year-olds bowl a ball and smack it as hard…
Four weeks in Bangalore. Four weeks in Campo Grande. The real question was not what to see, but how to live in somebody else’s world. Imagine that Ritesh and his wife leave Bangalore and spend a month in Ismar’s apartment in Campo Grande, Brazil. At the same time, Ismar moves into their apartment in Bangalore,…
Fruitloop sent me through five impossible worlds. Somewhere between melting chocolate, mechanical gnomes, argumentative gods and a magic mirror, I discovered that the point was never really to find the quickest answer. A Fruitloop University Story Episode 59 of Peeling Potatoes began with five mysterious doors. This is the sort of sentence that has become…
Sometimes the biggest changes in our lives begin with something surprisingly ordinary: asking, “Why do we do it this way?” Curiosity is often described as something children have in abundance, but I think adults need it just as much. In everyday life we become used to routines. We work, cook, clean, organise our homes, help…
Curiosity often begins with a passport, but it doesn’t always need one. Sometimes a new world is only a conversation away. The conversation began, as many good conversations do, with the weather. Monica described a chilly Australian morning, Fruitloop laughed about frozen toes after South Africa swung from two degrees to twenty-two in just a…
