As a nation, South Africans share a close bond with the land and agricultural production. As a result, much of our shared wisdom – our idioms, proverbs and sayings – […]
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Like any great dish, a great wine is made even greater by its story. And with a history as rich as that of my home country, experiencing a South African
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Over the course of his tow-decade-long career at La Motte Wine Estate, Edmund Terblanche has not …
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Long before the low-GI, carb-clever, banting-friendly, wheat-free, gluten-free, and essentially joy-free varieties of bread began to populate our supermarket shelves, bread was a staple food. It had been one since
Salt is one of the most misunderstood ingredients of the culinary world. For the past sixty years, it has been engaged in an ongoing battle with its crystalline cousin, sugar.
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Something about the story of Poppie van As immediately captured my imagination.
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In a world run by franchises and big corporations, how often do we walk past a tiny superette or artisanal manufacturer without so much as a thought about its existence?
I’m a farm boy, born and raised, so I always knew I would one day return to the bush; to the campfires and open skies of my beloved South Africa.
Q&A WITH JAN HENDRIK VAN DER WESTHUIZEN & LIAM TOMLIN A few months ago, on a weekday morning like any other, I opened the restaurant and noticed some flowers in
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Last Sunday was chaos in Nice. After visiting the market to grab a few bunches of radishes, I caught the bus and headed out to the mountains on our first
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