Quick Kitchen Fixes
How to Turn a cooking mishap into a happy accident It happens to the best of us. In fact, some of the happiest kitchen accidents in culinary history resulted in […]
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Aye Aye Aïoli!
AN HOMAGE TO YOUR NEW FAVOURITE SAUCE Aye-yoh-lee. The word just flows, doesn’t it? Like that moment when the olive oil emulsifies with the freshly chopped garlic, leaving you
Iconic Met Gala LOOKS Paired with food
Two of my favourite art forms – food and fashion The wonderful thing about art is the sheer number of forms it can take. From food to photography, film, poetry
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Jan Retail Therapy: Parisian Pâtisserie
A PASTRY LOVER’S GUIDE TO SHOPPING IN PARIS Firstly, there’s the sheer overwhelm of walking into a Parisian boulanger – the kind that specialises in haute pâtisserie (high pastry making)
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History’s Naughtiest Puddings
These desserts will make you blush Sugar-loaded and calorific desserts are definitely considered a “naughty” indulgence, but for the items listed below that description has a double meaning… This is
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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
Wake Me Up Before You Cocoa
Our complicated relationship with the ultimate sweet treat A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips, or so they say, but it’s impossible to deny that those moments
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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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