Red-themed recipes to bring ong to the table

THERE are some really fascinating facts about the colour red. It is the oldest colour in history, having been around since neolithic times – scientists found that it was used a lot in cave paintings, and apparently even then, the ladies were dolling themselves up in red.

It is the first colour that humans perceive after black and white – when societies started labelling colours, the order in which almost all of them did it was black first, followed by white and third, red.