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Though there is hardly any cooking involved, the effort that goes into an affair of this kind is quite something. The rewards are stupendous.

Can coleslaw be better than it is, in that bowl on the side table at the braai? Yes, it can.

Revelling in the discarded and the distressed, and tarting them up for the festive season.

Red prickly pears are the heart and soul of the Karoo kitchen.

This column is paired with this recipe Makataan is a lovely word. It rolls off the tongue in three syllables, the third long aaa being accentuated as if in birdsong…. Ma-ka-taaaan, ma-ka-taaaan. You can almost picture a cocky little bird topped by a brightly coloured comb trilling it as an incitement to mate. But makataan is the name of a fruit, and a wild one at that. It looks exactly like a watermelon. Which is what it is. But not the one you got to know as a child, running around the lawn with slices of its lovely sweet, red flesh and spitting out the pips.