All Buttered Up
Take Another Look at the Miraculous Mussel “With enough butter, anything is good.” – Julia Child In her iconic cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Julia Child states, “Mussels, […]
Food
10 Plant-Based Dessert Hacks
We’ve all been there. Guests are arriving to dine at your home in an hour, and all that’s left to whip up is dessert. You know your recipe off by
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Your Best Friend is Vegan. What Now?
An Omnivore’s Guide to Keeping The Peace “We need to talk,” he says. “Wait, are we breaking up?” you joke. Silence. Your eyes grow wide. “We are breaking up!” He
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Reflections on JAN Franschhoek
Q&A With Jan Hendrik Van Der Westhuizen By Hanfred Rauch “It is not a restaurant. It’s a home where we aim for people to meet new friends and leave feeling
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Lunch on The Grass
Your Cheat Sheet for Creating a Romantic Picnic The French have a knack for making things sound more romantic than they are. Consider, for instance, the word dustpan. In English,
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Game Meat Myths
FIVE MISCONCEPTIONS AROUND EATING WILD GAME We urbanites are a strange breed. When ordering a burger, a steak tartare or rump with Café de Paris butter, we seldom consider the
Birds of a Feather
A Look at the World’s Largest Bird With its enviable eyelashes and gorgeous plumage, the ostrich is a quintessential part of the South African landscape. The dusty town of Oudtshoorn
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Pear-fect Produce
Why the prickly pear is highly underrated We here at the JAN Group love experimenting with new and exciting produce as part of our guest offerings, and with the opening
The Road to Wellville
What Wellness Looks Like In 2023 Every time we turn the page on a new year, we find ourselves knee-deep in a flood of predictions and life coach mantras that,
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Pots with passports
A GUIDE TO TRAVELLING THE WORLD FROM YOUR KITCHEN We’ve all been there, stuck at home while all your friends are off on their annual pilgrimage to Porto or Palermo
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