Here is a where you’ll get to see random clips and tips about food, trends, health, ingredients, recipes or what I might have had for breakfast … and other such riveting minutiae. If you have ideas about what you want to see me talk about/make let me know.
I would actually scream if i had to sit in one of these ice cream vans and wait for the one solitary customer who might just happen upon a potential ’99 or dollop of soft scoop only to see it melt almost immediately…just bad news all round!
Not 1 but 2 vans side by side competing for business...
Maybe not the best location for such rivals
I visited my friends new restaurant -just in time to save him from hoisting his two 12ft signs onto the side of the building. I explained that ‘his shifs cocking frish fish’ might not attract his desired customer.
Frish Fish!
I have mentioned snake oil in jest but this is the ‘real’ thing. I’d like to meet the man who had experienced the results of thick, shiny hair due to this magical potion!
Excuse my henna’d hands in the background of the iphone picture…wanted to leave the authenticity in it! Note the shopkeepers hands on hips as he waits for me to take picture and leave 
Not sure if Copra and Cobra is the same thing but it's all snake oil to me...
In true Christmas style – here is the life of a starfish – with a nod and a wink to the one on top of the tree…
distant star
star of wonder
I did mention the ‘white coffee’ a few days ago – it’s hot water with rosewater added. Tastes like a blend of your favourite soaps without the foaming action.
mint, pollen, rose, cinnamon, diabetes, fumitory...limited only by your imagination!
In the souk I found this small shop which fries everything. It is sold in bags or individually and puts hairs on your liver! Made from gram (chickpea) flour, coconut milk, sugar and oil. Heart transplant anyone?
a man with a mission to fry the world...
1Kg to go please...
‘Dew of the sea’ – Rosemary comes in lots of varieties with exotic names such name as Ken Taylor, Irene, Gold Dust, Pinkie and Arp.It was used to treat gout and is thought to be anti-carcinogenic.
Of course you can use it in cooking and to make a tea infusion but if you fry it lightly it is delicious and fragrant and full of B6, iron and calcium. Here is the Hiltl chef frying tonight…
This has to be some extreme branding! Here in a souk in the middle east there is a stall which sells boxes of honey (same honey, different claims) This is a great example of not believing everything you read….
