Appley Ever After
A guide to our favourite apples and their uses They say an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but health benefits aside, this fleshy, fibrous gift from mother earth
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Stories
Finger Food
The benefits of cooking and eating with your hands In a time of exciting culinary innovation and experimentation it feels like we can’t go more than a week without some
If Movies Were Food
Favourite Oscar films and the dishes they could be It’s that time of year again, when ten shiny new film contenders compete for the coveted title of ‘Best Picture’ at
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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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The Intricacies of the Mozambican Palate
One might be tempted to bank Mozambican cuisine under Portuguese-inspired, but the country’s colonial heritage is only really apparent in its seafood dishes – less so in the vegetable arena.
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Honouring heritage in nature
How lessons from the past have guided me One of the first things that drew me to Boscia House in the breathtaking Tswalu Kalahari Reserve was the rich history captured
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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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Dare to Dunk
5 ways to dunk with style Cookies and milk, coffee and rusks, tea and biscuits, nothing beats a good dunk… I’ll never understand why dunking is considered bad etiquette, it’s