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 [...]
I love sushi.
But where is the best sushi in Cape Town?
Some say Willoughbys, others Nobu, and even a few will tell you that Kyoto Gardens does a very good job. Plenty mention Minato when it was run by “Mr.Minato”, who sold it on and who will reopen again soon in a new place that I [...]
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It’s not every day you get to do a cooking class at Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek.
This was the first restaurant to put South African cuisine on the international map.
Needless to say, I jumped at the chance to spend the morning being guided by their culinary concierge, Annemarie Steenkamp, through a cooking class called ‘South [...]
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It’s 8 o’clock on a Saturday morning and I’m sipping coffee on the terrace of the Jordan Restaurant with top chef George Jardine. The view is nothing short of spectacular.
I’m limbering up for my first ever bread baking course. Every Saturday six people are getting a chance to share George’s love with all things bread [...]
Neil Jewell is the chef at Bread and Wine restaurant on the Moreson wine estate.
His charcuterie products are known to every decent restaurateur in the Western Cape and beyond. So it’s a rare treat to be able to watch and participate, upfront and personal, as Neil takes you through a three hour course on charcuterie.
This will be [...]
Lisa and Philip Key and their friend, Jeremy Freemantle share a passion for food. Their dream was to open a cookery school, and all the elements came together in Prince Albert, in the Klein Karoo, where they opened African Relish, which they describe as a “Recreational Cookery School”.
Located on the main street in Prince Albert, [...]
Chez Gourmet Cookery School, in Claremont, offers classes run by Cordon Bleu Chefs who are trained in classic traditional French style cooking. That’s not to say that their approach is in any way stuffy or boring. Their courses are reflective of what people are interested in. At the moment their most popular courses are fish dishes and how to [...]
Liam Tomlin is opening the Chef’s Warehouse in April. This will be a new cookery school, located in downtown Cape Town, on New Church Street, which is at the top of Bree Street.
The cheffing scene in Cape Town is abuzz with this news because this cookery school is bound to make a splash. Why? because [...]
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