IT'S TIME to tell the truth. I go to Durban about twice a month. Every time I do I have lofty culinary ambitions. I tell people that I will give them a call, that we will go out for dinner, that we will sample this or that restaurant. I mean it, too. Sometimes I check out the websites of restaurants that people have recommended. I even write a neat to-do list.Then I arrive in Durban, check into my hotel, and inevitably things fall apart.The truth is that whenever I visit the city I get an overwhelming desire to sink my teeth into a prawn and chicken curry. Sometimes I do lamb, but that curry is a thing of beauty.What’s really wonderful is that you don’t even have to travel to get to it. No need to go to a fancy, famous restaurant. No sirree. In Durban a good curry is available even at the hotel. Yes, I can see some of my snobbish friends rolling their eyes, grabbing at the old cliché that mass-produced hotel food is terrible.The theory holds in general. But in practice, in Durban, i...
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