Culture: Re-building Al-Nouri Mosque, Or Courtyards Dialogue

Culture: Re-building Al-Nouri Mosque, Or Courtyards Dialogue

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] An international jury recently announced that an entry by eight Egyptian architects won the international competition for the reconstruction of the historic Al-Nouri Mosque complex in Mosul, Iraq, a major...
Book Reviews: Secret Cities, Or Getting Lost With Gusto

Book Reviews: Secret Cities, Or Getting Lost With Gusto

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Secret Brooklyn by Michelle Young and Augustin Pasquet Secret Edinburgh: An Unusual Guide by Hanna Robinson Secret Naples by Valerio Ceva Grimaldi, Maria Franchini and Fernando Pisacane...
Travel: 2022 World Book Capital, Or Guadala-iterature

Travel: 2022 World Book Capital, Or Guadala-iterature

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] Guadalajara in Mexico was named World Book Capital for the year 2022 by the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, on the recommendation of the World Book Capital Advisory Committee. The city was...
Food: Feeling Desserted, Or Experiments On Ice

Food: Feeling Desserted, Or Experiments On Ice

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] It seems that plain vanilla ice cream might soon come out of fashion in Lithuania, where chefs are experimenting with natural flavours: fresh vegetables, flowers, and even stinging nettle. Chefs around the...
Amused Bouche: Lekker Bistro, Parys, Free State

Amused Bouche: Lekker Bistro, Parys, Free State

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Lekker Bistro, 60 Bree Street, Parys.   Carte: The menu’s written out on a chalkboard, which is brought to your table and balanced on a chair. The basics – chicken, steak, fish – but prepared...