Lovelier fruit than in South Africa doesn’t exist. Here you can eat the nicest, juiciest and sweetest pineapples, mangoes, apples, grapes, papayas and plums.
As there is
a lot of sun and as long as the climate changes enough rain, everything can
grow without much effort. Also trees and flowers are there. And a multitude of
butterflies in yellow, red, black, white, purple, blue, orange, green. It makes
you think of the rainbow. In this rainbow nation.
The rosé wine
with picturesque names like Cape Good Hope, the red and white wine, grown in
the country are excellent. When it goes together with food like meat on the braai,
you are lucky.
When they do the braai, pap is an aside. It looks like mashed
potatoes, but is actually maizena and water. The mixture becomes rather solid
and is eaten with a spicy sauce on it. Some people wait until it’s cold and
stiff and they eat it later on, in cubes rolled in sugar.
I didn’t
taste the biltong - dried meat being a delicacy.
When living
with white people in a lodge, the food is very British indeed. Cereals, milk,
toast and jam. Hot food varies but with a strong European accent.
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