Some Like it Hot
A Hot Drink Connoisseur’s Guide to Finding Your Inner Movie Lead Admit it, we’ve all fantasised about playing a leading role in one (or more) of our favourite films. Maybe […]
Food
Fashionable Food Fare
Fashionistas and Their Food Habits I often compare food to fashion, and it’s not just because I have a lifelong love for both. Like fashion, food is an art form
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How Spicy Are You?
A Foodie’s Guide to the Laws of Attraction There’s a strange duality around the art of cooking with spices that probably comes down to word association. In an American context
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An Ode to Soup
A love letter to the Iconic Winter Warmer It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that soup was the first “dish” we learnt to cook as a species, at about
When Life Gives You…
Navigating market culture in Nice Just as a bad workman blames his tools, a bad chef blames his ingredients. At the heart of every menu lies the building blocks of
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Who Said Comfort Food Can’t Be Plant Based?
Comfort Cravings and How To Manage Them on a Plant Based Diet If you’ve ever tried giving plant-based eating a go – or tried your hand at flexitarianism – one
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Dinner for Eight
How to Throw Your Perfect Dinner Party In South Africa – for a whole generation of baby boomers – Emsie Schoeman was the most definitive voice on the subject of
Future Past
The Way We Do Food At Klein Jan A Conversation with Etienne Wessels, Head Chef at Restaurant Klein Jan It would be an understatement to say that creating magic in
The JAN Food Dictionary
COOKING WITH WORDS IN SOUTH AFRICA, FRANCE AND ITALY Having a South African restaurant in France means you have to answer a lot of questions. It can often feel like
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