Jan’s Confessions
Edition 1 Confessions from the kitchen and the oddest dietary requests I’ve heard Here’s the funny thing about human nature, we just love to overcomplicate things don’t we? One of […]
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What Kind of Chocolate Are You?
A Chocolate Snob’s Guide to Personality Traits If you’ve never meddled in the psychology of personality traits, you might not have heard about the “big five”. And no, thankfully this
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The Fountain of Youth
How to include more collagen in your diet It’s a universal, albeit slightly uncomfortable, truth that we’re all a bit obsessed with youth. As much as we can blame it
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Shopping With Your Senses
Introducing the JAN Shop in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Salt, a Love Letter
Why salt ignites our senses Salt on the rim of a chilled Margarita, that post dip in the ocean feeling, the endorphins released after working up a good sweat from
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Shellfish in the Sheets
The delightful connections between seafood and sex Seafood has been deemed an aphrodisiac for as long as our memory stretches back, which is hardly a surprise considering the word ‘aphrodisiac’
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Inspiration from the big blue
My relationship with the sea I’d been living in France for about two years before embarking on that fateful journey when I opened Restaurant JAN. Working with French ingredients –
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Dirty Little Secrets
What do you like to eat when no-one’s looking? Food is a joy plain and simple, whether it’s a burger and fries or a blackened cajun salmon with cranberry vinaigrette
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Primal Position
What does your sleeping position say about your personality? They say we can spend up to a third of our lives sleeping, or attempting to do so, so it’s imperative
The (New) Rules of Eating in Bed
It’s a divisive issue, let’s face it, and the root cause of many a breakup. As many bed eaters realise as they enter adulthood, eating in bed is that guilty pleasure you don’t necessarily share with others.
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