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All About Aubrey Ngcungama.

Aubrey was born in 1984, in KwaZulu Natal’s lower south coast. He is a proud Zulu man with a love for all things British. At the age of 2 he was ‘adopted’ by an English family – whose hospitality businesses in the UK have earned many accolades. It is through this that a love for…

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Gordon Ramsay Steakhouse at Paris Las Vegas.

Gordon Ramsay has brought his unique style and culinary flair to Las Vegas with the Gordon Ramsay Steak at Paris Las Vegas, his first in the city The two-level steakhouse has a “chunnel” entrance and then immediately captures their attention with an eye-catching, restaurant wide Union Jack ceiling mural and custom neon sculpture, handsomely tailored…

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Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen

An absorbing look at the implements we use to prepare food is also a story of human ingenuity Open your kitchen drawers and cupboards and the chances are that you will see there are a spectacular array of implements. Slicers, mashers, peelers, crushers and parers are only the start of it: there are also those…

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The Smiling Meatball, courtesy of KFC China.

I’m not a big fan of food that’s smiling at me when I’m about to eat it. They don’t seem to mind in China though. KFC over there have this offering going for what appears to be 16 Yuan. What’s your feeling about eating food that’s smiling at you?

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Brandy galore in France

Autumn marks the end of the armagnac grape harvest and the start of the distilling season in rural Gascony – a time of celebration Things are beginning to warm up nicely. It’s late October and people have been breathing clouds of fog into the crisp autumn air all morning. Now shafts of sunlight are beginning…

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Sugar coating the world with cake icing graffitti

Canadian artist Shelly Miller presents a new take on street graffiti, giving it a sugary coating. I have never once been able to interpret street graffiti until now. Anything with icing sugar is a win for me, what is a piece of cake without it? A loaf of bread? This “throw up” took a few…

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The Louis Vuitton Waffle Maker

Say goodbye to the handbags and impress your girlfriends with a Louis Vuitton Waffle maker. Californian artist Andrew Lewicki has designed the worlds fist (we believe), Louis Vuitton waffle maker. The designer cookware is made with a Teflon-coated aluminium  enamel on aluminium sheeting, and generic waffle-maker parts. Due to it being a work of art it is not commercially…

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The Macaron evolution continues, now available in bacon flavour!

Anyone who knows me will know that I do not have much of an affinity for macarons. The name sounds funny, it’s spelt funny and they are generally quite pointless, one bite and they’re gone! I could not however pass up on the Macaron Parlour thanks mainly to their innovative style and attempt to make…

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A new superhero is in town! The Pumpkin Thing!

Americans go all out when it comes to Halloween! Take this Fantastic Four “Thing” for example. Standing at 6’4″, buit on a wood and chicken wire frame, this pumpkin version of The Thing dominates every other pumpkin around. It is the creation of Reddit’s wizardtig, who used 11 pumpkins to put it all together. I wouldn’t…