CRYSTAL CLEAR
A GUIDE TO GETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR GLASSWARE Over the last three-and-a-half millennia since glass was first invented, glassware has evolved from clunky, murky receptacles into clear, ultra-refined […]
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WHY CHOCOLATE IS STILL THE SEXIEST FOOD
AN EXPLORATION OF THE SENSES There are many who believe that chocolate is an aphrodisiac. What follows next may not be that dissimilar from discovering that Father Christmas is, in
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THE BEE’S KNEES
The beauty (and versatility) of beeswaxIn “A Guide to Honey”, a super informative article in JAN the Journal Volume 6 about the lives of bees and how they produce honey,
MY THING FOR UNIFORMS
THE POWER OF YOUR PERSONAL STYLE We chefs are not renowned for our fashion sense. At least, not traditionally speaking. But all that is changing. Recently, in an article
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NAILING YOUR ROAD TRIP
ESSENTIALS TO MAKE HITTING THE ROAD A BREEZE It’s February (already!), the holidays (was it a holiday?) are a long-forgotten memory involving specifically not going to the beach, while
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GAMECHANGER
THE RISE AND RISE OF ABALOBI It started in 2017. Until then, if you had wanted to buy fresh fish (even as a restaurant), your only option was to head
THE URBAN PICNIC IS THE NEW DINNER PARTY
It was a trend that emerged in the US around 2016 – turning the dinner party on its head by taking proceedings out into the garden – but here
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SNACKING SOUTH AFRICA
A TOUR OF OUR FAVOURITE SNACKS One of the best parts about creating JAN the Journal Volume 6 was going on a real, don’t-make-‘em-like-they-used-to, authentically South African road trip that
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A Touch of Glass
There are countless ways to set a table, as the (almost) infinite number of books, websites, Instagram feeds and TV programmes would attest. So much of it has to do
WHY WE DINE OUT
IN SUPPORT OF SOUTH AFRICA’S RESTAURANT INDUSTRY Unless you’ve gone the full Mosquito Coast in the last year (and are still living in hiding), it couldn’t have escaped your