Learning to grow
Never-ending reinnovation I’m often asked what I think the secret to success is, as if there’s some magic trick that will help you snap your fingers and succeed at whatever […]
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Beyond the Rational
A conversationwith Mehdi Rajan IWC Brand Director, Africa, Middle East, India and Turkey Mehdi Rajan’s career has become characterised by his ability to make connections. Over the last 12 years,
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Romaine Calm and Carrot On
Plant-Based Myths and How I Get Over Them I grew up on a farm in Mpumalanga, where chicken was often classified as a vegetable, so the first time I became
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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
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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