FORGED BY FIRE: How I beat the Load Shedding Blues

The communal pot. The glow of embers below, the heat coming off it onto hands rubbing together, folks huddled around the fire to warm themselves, appetites whetted by the aroma, the waft, the hope, the gratitude. We’re being fed this night. Life is good.

Through ages and centuries, times of peace and all the great wars, we have eaten and been grateful, and the flame, the fire, the singe, the char, have been as much a part of our days and nights as the clothing that keeps us warm and the roofs over our heads we learnt to build for our comfort and survival.

If we consider that a lifetime is somewhere around three score and 10 – if perhaps a little longer on average in our time – then 100 years is not much time at all. Anyone over 50 has lived half a century. Anyone who has reached 50 knows how fast the time flies. Where did that time go? And even then it was a really slow starter. Only in 1910 did a recipe book first appear specifically for cooking with these devices: Recipes for cooking by electricity, published by New York Edison. We had cooked on gas, and before that by fire, for as long as we had existed.

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