November 2009 • WANDALUST

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Culinary AdventuresNovember 28, 2009

Too many cooks? Not at this table

When eight East Bay culinary divas stir the pot and spill the beans, what you get is a sizzling stir fry of raucous musings, candidness, collaboration, ebullience and deliciousness.

By Wanda Hennig — See full story in Oakland Magazine, November 2009 and Alameda Magazine, November 2009

They met around three tables pulled into a rough circle at Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland. During the roundtable discussion, the women talked together, talked over each other and talked totally off-topic — more like being at a good dinner party where wine and conversation flow freely. But there was no wine, just coffee beforehand and slices of carrot cake with walnut at the end.

HeadlineNovember 15, 2009

Tembe has Africa’s biggest tusker and web-spinning spider plus tiny suni

Isilo could be the world’s largest elephant; the suni is one of Africa’s smallest antelope; and scientists thought until recently that nephila komaci — the female spider has a leg-span of five inches — was extinct.

By guest Africa correspondent Graham Linscott Photos by Wayne Matthews

TEMBE Elephant Park, a wilderness in the remote north-east of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, offers visitors the opportunity to step back 200 years into unspoiled pre-colonial Africa.

It also offers the opportunity to spot southern Africa’s largest tusker, a giant bull elephant named Isilo who is about 65 years old …

CoachingNovember 6, 2009

Too many cooks? Not at this table

Tembe has Africa’s biggest tusker and web-spinning spider plus tiny suni

Sex, Social Media and New Zealand (3): Blogs & Vlogs

Sex, Social Media and New Zealand (2): How to write a travel blog

Oakland and South Africa connect. So what does Cheetah Outreach have to do with it?

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