Wise Man of the Magi

I haven't read a newspaper, watched tv news, used a cell or drove a car in over a month and you know what? I don't miss any of it! Foreign flicks, Pan-African music and playing pedestrian fills the gap quite nicely here in Cape Town. Skip pizza, cereal and p&j sandwiches, in Africa it's Big Game or nothing. Ostrich, Springbok and seafood are staples for dinner this week. I tried the first two smothered in "Dark Chocolate and Chili sauce" and was ever so thankful I wasn't a vegetarian. Even in the poor black townships, a fare of bar-b-que chicken and mashed potatoes was reason to celebrate food. Biltong or dried salted beef, boerewors or lamb sausages and rock lobster rounded off the bill Friday night. The place was called Belthazar, not Balthazar, like in Soho, but the largest "wine by the glass" wine bar in the world - that's 710 in total. Balthazar was one of the wise man of the magi who brought muir to the baby Jesus. Here though, he brings wine and lots of it. How do you say no to a sommelier who buys one of the last four 1966 Port Wines in the whole country? You don't! When in Port drink Port - yah, this country definitely tops Brazil, Venezuela and who knows what lies ahead...