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Daily Maverick
04-07-2025
- General
- Daily Maverick
The PE lamb curry that has me going back for more, every time
In Richmond Hill, there's a lamb curry that is hard to beat, in a restaurant of rare consistency. The thing that surprises me most about the Friendly/Windy City is that I never hear locals raving about the superb Indian restaurant right on their doorstep. It's in Richmond Hill, a tiny suburb on a hillside near the sea, and it serves a lamb curry that can hold its own with the best anywhere. Some lamb curries in a long life of eating them may match the special deboned lamb curry at Royal Delhi, but my memory holds no record of a better one. It's just brilliant. And it's perfectly wonderful every time. The consistency at Royal Delhi is phenomenal. So is mine. In 10 years of going there — only once in a while, because it's not our home town — I've only ever ordered the 'Royal Delhi Special deboned curried lamb'. Because it's just what I want, and for me it's why we go there. The Foodie's Wife is equally consistent — she consistently avoids ordering the lamb curry so that she can consistently order the chicken and prawn curry instead. Every time. I also order the same starter every time. It's the puri and patha, which not every palate gets the point of, but I've loved it ever since Devi Moodliar made it for me at the Talk of the Town in Cape Town's Burg Street in the nineties when we were young and carefree. Puri is a puffed-up round disc of crispy air, but when you push it down with your palm it deflates and compresses. Traditionally, you fry rounds of patha — spicy layered yam leaves smeared with a chilli paste — and pop one on top of a puri, then put a second puri on top of the patha, like a little Indian burger. At Royal Delhi, a trio each of puri and patha are interspersed at a jaunty angle. It's a proper Indian delight; I adore puri and patha. And it is always on the menu at Royal Delhi. There you go — two secrets you may not have known about PE. (I have another one for you later.) I like Royal Delhi so much that at one point we considered moving to PE (locals still call it PE, while many alternate between Gqeberha and Port Elizabeth for the full name) so we could live in a cottage in Richmond Hill and go for dinner every week. Royal Delhi is delightfully old fashioned. It's quite smart in an unfussy way, the table service is exemplary, and the consistency extends as much to the look of the place and the table settings as it does to the food itself. You know what you're in for, and you get what you want. I'm not sure how many restaurants fit that bill. The menu is more extensive than I usually like in a restaurant — less is best for me, I find — but that doesn't bother me one bit here. There's an on-the-bone alternative to the deboned version, and I had that once and it was equally brilliant. I reckoned I'd get more lamb if there were no bones. They have Malabar beef curry, Himalayan chicken curry, Madras oxtail, beef tripe curry, and that prawns-and-chicken combo which is not really my thing as I like things to be either one thing or the other. But it's clearly great because the Foodie's Wife knows her curries. I think I need to go there two nights in a row at some point, so that I can have the lamb curry again and, a day later, the Delhi Durban Prawn Curry — that has to be a treat. Other starters include very good samoosas, the requisite chilli bites (bhaji/pakora); spiced, fried brinjal slices (had that once, it was great), chicken livers, and a few that don't really fit the Indian restaurant model — calamari frito, escargots in garlic sauce, crumbed mushrooms with tartare sauce, poached mussels and the like. Are there really people who go to an Indian joint and order poached mussels and lemon butter prawns? I'll stop shaking my head in a minute. Back to mains: the ones mentioned earlier were just on one page. Alongside that are the North Indian dishes — butter chicken, tikka masala/ korma/ Madras; murgh saagwala (chicken, spinach, garlic), a tandoori half-chicken, butter prawns, lamb rogan josh, and more. Reads like a British High Street Indian menu. We ordered garlic naan, but you can choose chilli, cheese, chilli-cheese, or plain roti instead. We also ordered jeera (cumin) rice, but others include vegetable pulao, mushroom pulao, plain basmati and steamed yellow rice. There's a range of tandoori vegetable side dishes as well; the likes of paneer makhani, saag paneer (both cheese), jeera aloo (a favourite of mine, potatoes with cumin), and chana masala (chickpeas cooked in a traditional Punjabi masala). As with most Indian restaurants, desserts are an afterthought — ice cream with chocolate sauce, créme brûlèe, or maybe a Dom Pedro or Irish coffee — but there is one subcontinental sweet choice: sorgie, a sweetly spiced semolina pudding. It wasn't enthralling. But really, we don't go to the local Indian place for dessert, so who cares. But I have another secret, although I suspect that to many locals This Is Eat is no secret at all. And maybe they like to keep it to themselves. If you're new to PE however, take a drive down to the docks and ask someone to direct you to This Is Eat. It's plain and simple. Downhome and humble. Your food arrives in takeaway bakkies. With a plastic tub of tartare sauce. You order at the counter as you go in, are given a number, and minutes later you'll hear your number called over the intercom. Up you go to collect it, open the lid, and devour the freshest fish imaginable, perfectly grilled or fried, with really top-rate chips on the side (in our case). I chose grilled kingklip and it was even better than it looked: The prices are super-friendly, although it's best to choose a pleasant day so that you can sit outdoors where seagulls swoop and a boat of one kind or another may cruise by. This is the very opposite of Cape Town's Waterfront — essential, real, take-it-or-leave-it simplicity. May it never change. DM
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
'It was close' – Chelsea star's career almost had a very different path claims former coach
Cole Palmer's rapid rise to one of the Premier League's biggest stars from the moment he signed for Chelsea left a few people scratching their heads about how it had happened. The kid had been highly rated for many years as a Man City youngster, but didn't look ready for this sort of breakout. The moment he was given a chance at Chelsea he was a star, and instantly the Cityzens looked crazy for not giving him a bigger role sooner. There's a sense that the creator has always been a little under-appreciated, and speaking on the Talk of the Devils Manchester United podcast, former academy coach Colin Little explained he could have taken a different career path much earlier. 'I know Cole Palmer's family quite well,' Little said. 'I know his dad and his uncle, and we were close to getting Cole Palmer when he was about 16, believe it or not. He was umming and ahhing and I knew he was a big United fan. He was at that age where you're allowed to leave, 16 is it? 'And they were umming and ahhing, Manchester City, about it. I think in the end Manchester City made him a good enough offer. But really, he was always a Manchester United fan and it was close anyway, I remember speaking [to his parents] In the end Palmer stayed a couple more years, but perhaps it shows that there were already doubts in his camp about whether he would ever get the chances he deserved at City. 'I think City needed to show him a bit more love and that kind of stuff. We never quite got it over the line but it would have been nice if we did, wouldn't it?', Little concluded.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Yahoo
Owner of San Antonio nonprofit that led search for Caleb Harris dead at 47
Nina Glass, the owner of Search and Rescue SATX, a San Antonio-based nonprofit whose team searched last year for missing 21-year-old Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi student Caleb Harris, died on Monday. She was 47. An announcement of her death was published on her organization's website, along with a message to "Rest in Paradise." 'It is with a very sad and heavy heart that we have to announce that the owner of Search and Rescue SATX, Nina Glass, has unexpectedly passed away on Jan. 27, 2025. No details are available at this time, and when more information is obtained and the family wants, it will be released. Please keep Nina and her family in your hearts and prayers. The family is also asking to please respect their privacy at this time. Thank you everyone for your support for Nina and her organization.' Search and Rescue SATX could not be reached for further comment on Wednesday. Glass founded Search and Rescue SATX in 2019. The group collaborates with law enforcement and the community to find missing persons through 'comprehensive search techniques.' On Monday, the creator of the Facebook page 'Talk of Caleb Harris,' Nicole Owens, also wrote a post about Glass. Owens told the Caller-Times that she met Glass through the search for missing person Jason Landry, who disappeared from Luling in December 2020. Through TikTok, they organized a search effort for Harris together, encouraging people to volunteer to look for the student, who was last seen at his off-campus apartment on March 4, 2024. Glass came to Corpus Christi on March 9 and stayed until sometime in April. She traveled from her hometown of San Antonio throughout the year to conduct more searches for the missing student, Owens said. With the help of countless volunteers whom she'd found through the Facebook page and word-of-mouth, Glass' team searched the heavily vegetated areas, fields and drainage ditches around Harris' residence after his disappearance. The group expanded their effort to the Oso Bay Wetland Preserve, Flour Bluff and North Padre Island, bringing in underwater drones to search bodies of water. Owens said she spoke to Glass almost daily, especially during the Caleb Harris search, and helped set up volunteers. She described helping Glass behind the scenes by providing volunteers with meals. 'She worked really hard at trying to find missing people,' Owens said. 'She put everything into it and didn't stop until she knew they had to stop.' People also made donations through social media to cover the cost of hotels and other expenses so that Glass could stay in Corpus Christi, Owens said. 'She raised funds to go down there,' she said. 'I had people in the group who would take turns supplying the food and coffee. People bought things for her — radios, a metal detector, probably a few other things like life jackets and new boots. 'Corpus Christi was super-supportive,' she said. 'They were actually amazing. She grew pretty close to a group of them from Corpus Christi.' Owens said Glass took it personally and felt as if she were 'failing' when she didn't find Harris. Harris' remains were later found in a wastewater station in June and positively identified on July 17. His case is under investigation by the Corpus Christi Police Department. While Glass' cause of death is not known, her daughter found her mother in bed, according to Owens' post on Facebook. She had been sick with the flu and went to lie down, dying in her sleep. Glass' daughter could not be reached for comment on Wednesday. More: Investigation of missing Texas A&M student enters eighth week More: Search for missing Texas A&M student deepens in Oso Bay Wetlands Preserve More: Search for missing Texas A&M student Caleb Harris expands across North Padre Island This article originally appeared on Corpus Christi Caller Times: Woman who led search for missing student Caleb Harris dead at 47
