“Curiosity. That’s what drives us all…,” say the folks behind this year’s Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards. It’s what drives us to travel, to “seek out the best hotels and destinations, the most wonderful cities, the islands worth shouting about.” Curiosity is up there with hope and love, a…
One Chef, One Ingredient For Food for Change with Relais & Châteaux and Slow Food this year, we were excited to present one of our favourite local ingredients, championing for more ethical cooking choices. Using fresh local produce sourced from our own food garden or from neighbouring villages is an…
“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.” ~ E.O. Wilson Insect activity varies from month to month on the Zambezi and we witness…
The Chitenge Outside her house, Edith wraps the bright cloth around her body, tucking in the edges of the patterned wrap tightly under her arm. With young children following after her, chicken at her feet, she heads down the dirt path toward the river. She walks slowly and with the…
muchingachinga, mongu, mungongo and other marvels will.i.am. is quoted as saying, “If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others – it’s the same with music.” Beyond simply cooking for others, great joy is…
“A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of…
