Food as Fashion
With every Journal, there’s usually one story in which we bring together food and fashion. On the day of the shoot, it’s everything you imagine it to be. Excitement, jitters […]
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Feasting with inspirational women
A Look at Women Who Inspire Us Starting from a chef trainee and working her way up the kitchen ranks to become Group Executive Chef at JAN Group under the
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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,
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