Oscar Foulkes

Memories and La Turque

Before humans could write, we used other ways to record or remember things. Lynne Kelly’s book, The Knowledge Gene, details […]

Julie & Julia is a lovely movie that tells the story of Julie Powell’s year of cooking all 524 recipes

Oscar Foulkes / February 28, 2026

I prefer to write with a fresh, rested mind. A state in which phrases flow freely, fingers doing their best

Oscar Foulkes / December 23, 2025

During a training ride in preparation for the 2019 Cape Epic, we rode from Grabouw, through the Elgin Valley, and

The culinary world is fixated on what to eat, or how to cook it. We’re all about ingredients, dishes and

The liquidation of my wine shops in 2002 was a massively stressful experience that affected me on a deeply emotional

The caracal appeared on the trail ahead of me, stopped to look at me for a moment, then walked on

In lives mediated by screens, or cerebral in other ways, doing stuff with our hands is highly underrated. I’d go

It all started when I wanted to use the title of one of my favourite Rock songs as the name

I don’t do New Year’s resolutions, but by accident I ended up making a kind-of resolution. I was going to