WE HAVE THE POWER: How and what to cook when the lights go out

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We can manage our cooking lives, in times of load shedding, in the same way that millions of our species have done for millennia. By using the light we have, when we have it, and the resources we have when there is no light.

There’s much more you can do.

Take the wok out to the braai and use it above the coals for a stir-fry; there’s no reason why not. Build that outside pizza oven you’ve often talked about, or buy a ready-to-use one. It goes without saying that all the usual braai-side gear is fit for load shedding: your grids and tongs, potjies and basting brushes. To these basics, add foil and skewers, candles and gas lamps, and order bakkie loads of braai wood.There’s a room in many homes called the braai r0om. A lot of English South Africans turn their noses up at them as being a very Afrikaans thing. That’s silly. It’s eminently sensible, especially in winter and most especially whenever there’s no power.

 

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We can simply vote out the ANC. Duh.

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