Once Bitten
Burger in Cape Town
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13 Bell Crescent Westlake Business Park. Tokai. Cape Town. Western Cape. 7945Are you the owner or manager of this company?
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A body of scientists believe we learned to cook 2 million years ago, and that this is the crucial factor that drove our transition from primitive Homo habilis to Homo erectus.
Going vegan has been almost like a second coming out. People are offering beer to their badly behaved dogs. Why must we feel we have to defend ourselves in our own backyard? Somebody always says how much they love their meat and how they could never give it up. Even the baked potatoes were dolloped with butter the second you turned your back to fetch a drink. Most vegans sit quietly and don’t evangelise, yet they are thought of as humourless and extremist. It was a terrifying experience as a child in an alien country. We had to fly back to South Africa for her to be hospitalised. Then there were columns on raw food, Krishna temple food, veganism, foraging, eating seaweed, mushroom hunting, health food cafés, sprouting and so forth. The swell was also gentle that day, giving us plenty of time to explore the intertidal rock pools near Scarborough beach on the Cape Peninsula. Before embarking, she gives us a brief introduction and talk on sustainability. Always collect as close to the tide line as possible. Many of us also know and use agar (popular as a gelatin for vegetarians). Agar is found in many gelatinous red algae, and local saw-edged jelly-weed, which is harvested commercially. Foragers should also take care that they do not pick our indigenous black mussels, which are being rapidly displaced and outcompeted by the alien Mediterranean mussel. To my mind, the local mussels have more elegant lines. If you’ve ever wondered about the different colours of mussel flesh, dark brown or orange are female; off-white and pale yellow are male, depending on the species. Gray makes sustainable limpet and periwinkle samoosas. And if you don’t quite look the same afterwards, you can be sure that you will never look at the sea rocks and kelp the same way again. The fact that Noakes used to promote a high-carbohydrate diet and was as convinced of the science behind that as he is of its opposite today, ironically only strengthens his message in the fruitcake world of diets. Then he had a Damascus road experience while out jogging. Positioning his diet as a social revolution rather than an eating plan, he believes we can all help to redeem mankind. Setting the pseudoscience aside, the consequences for the planet if populations in their billions went off rice and pursued Noakes’s protein-rich, high animal fat diet would be catastrophic. The corner Italian restaurant is serving pizza with a chickpea flour base, which is mistakenly thought of as providing a low-carb alternative.
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