I wish someone had told me how to dine together across continents

It’s incredible when your children achieve in life and are successful in what they do, and what makes them happy. But there is a downside if their careers take them to another continent.

My friend Nadine Christelis has a daughter, Andrea, who left South Africa for the UK in 1990 to study further in London and decided to settle over there. Nadine and Andrea are very close, and being so far apart physically meant they had to find novel ways of keeping in touch.

I was intrigued to hear recently that they regularly have dinner together! Every now and then they will co-ordinate their shopping, buy the same ingredients and cook the same dish for dinner, Nadine in Johannesburg and Andrea in London. They connect via FaceTime and share the cooking process as it unfolds.

They then show each other the results, pour a glass of wine and eat their meal together.

Nadine says it is great fun and she gets to spend really special time with her daughter, who lives so far away.

Isn’t technology wonderful? Perhaps one day we will even have the ability to taste and smell each other’s cooking across the oceans. But for now, what we have works well enough.