Why can’t we just grow up?
The 30-year-old still living at home is all too common. Seduced by the lure of free board and lodging and pressured by over-protective parents, grown up children can’t break free
All in the family—the candle makers
Generations of giving light.
For three generations the Kalogirou family has taken to heart the famous saying, it is “better to light a candle than to curse darkness”
Alkanet. (Anchusa officinalis) syn. Dyer’s Bugloss; Anchusa. A herbaceous perennial member of the Boragineae family growing to about 30cm in wastelands and rocky habitats in Europe and Asia. It has stiff, erect stems containing linear pointed leaves bearing bright blue, violet, or red tubular flowers issuing from the axils and terminal spurs. All parts are covered in fine hairs.
Husband-and-wife team Sam(uel) and Sam(antha) Clark (the surname also being by some fluke Samantha’s maiden name) have got us used to the heady aromas and blistering flavours of the spicy arc stretching from Spain through to North Africa and all the way to Turkey. You could be forgiven, therefore, in thinking that this book is re-treading familiar territory.
Mediterranean Shish Sesame Skewers
Serves 4
1kg lean lamb, cubed
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp caster sugar
2 garlic cloves, crushed
2 tbsp sesame seeds
1 tsp black onion (nigella) seeds – optional
1 lemon, cut in small pieces
14 pickled green chillies
200g tub tzatziki
Alonia Tavern Restaurant
Where the tables groan with food
It’s been a while since I’ve indulged in a traditional Greek-Cypriot meze, so last Saturday night we booked a table at Alonia Tavern, situated in the heart of Livadia on the outskirts of Larnaca.
There is some consolation for the South Africans – and perhaps even a little secret pride – in the unorchestrated response of its lively wine industry to today’s intense international competition. In a world of rising quality – and looming global glut – Cape wine is not at the top of the international league tables.
EVER SINCE last summer when the comrade Commissar decided to stand for the presidency, we have been hearing about a three-horse race – a view confirmed by the thousands of opinion polls conducted – without ever being told who the three men riding the horses would be.
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
