I have always felt that South African cheese could be as good as any cheese produced anywhere in the world.
The cheese platter at George Jardine’s is evidence of how good it can be. Too often in restaurants you get a badly chosen selection of cheeses straight from the fridge that taste of very little.
A few [...]
One of my favourite chefs, Luke Dale-Roberts, is coming round for Christmas.
Well, not literally, but the next best thing, his food, is.
That’s because he has created a Christmas range for Woolworths – chutneys, relishes, dressings, pestos; lamb, salmon & sausage, gammon belly, pudding and so on.
Now this is the kind of thing I love – supermarkets [...]
Central to Heritage Day is the successful cooking of steak.
Not as easy as it seems. I come from a country which sees good weather coincide with dozens of people ending up in hospital due to flash flames off the barbecue (as they quaintly call it overseas) and food poisoning.
So I’m reproducing my article on how to cook [...]
What I like about Woolworths wines is that they do all the hard work in picking the wine for you. The selection may be smaller than you’d be used to, but it is, as they say, perfectly formed.
In short, it would be hard to leave Woolworths with an ill chosen or bad bottle.
The brain and palate [...]
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How on earth do you do a taste test on mineral water? Don’t they all taste the same? and are colourless and odourless?
Well that might be the view, but I was going to do one anyway, and I came up with a few surprises along the way.
The top three surprises I came across were;
1. You might [...]
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