My favourite food and drink festival last year was Constantia Fresh.
It’s relaxed, in a beautiful setting, and the quality of the food and drink are top class. This all leads to a chilled experience and none of the usual crowding and shoving you get at some events.
It’s happening again this year on March 1st and [...]
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Barack Obama is brewing his own beer in the White House. What’s the world coming to?
President Obama has revealed that the White House has installed a microbrewery that produces both light and a dark ales.
Well, I suppose if you were President of the most powerful nation on earth you wouldn’t be worried what people think [...]
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A while ago I wrote about the pork you can get from Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants;
“Our pigs have become pretty fussy eaters; acorns and shrubs are what they’re after ….. are always foraging….. Always moving rocks…. Always digging….. Always burrowing…their neck muscles have developed. Seriously developed. Like if-Arnie-was-a-pig-he’d-want-this-neck-developed.”
Some flippin’ meat that……
Now it’s the turn [...]
Food Network, the 24/7 food entertainment channel broadcast in South Africa on DStv, has signed one of South Africa’s most well-known and respected chefs, Jenny Morris, to develop and host Food Network’s first commissioned show in South Africa.
Jenny Morris aka Giggling Gourmet
Jenny Morris, also known as The Giggling Gourmet, is an author, [...]
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A new website is aiming to provide a forum connecting wineries with those looking to work a vintage.
Set up six months ago, TheCellarhand.com was created by George Read, based on his own experience working four consecutive vintages in various countries around the world.
Despite his praise for the experience of seeing the diversity of winemaking approaches in [...]
If I were to go to a food and wine workshop I couldn’t think of a better one than one involving Michael Olivier.
Why?
He knows a heck of a lot about wine, and even more about food. He ran three restaurants in the Western Cape ( top 10 included ), consults with Pick n Pay on [...]
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I’ve always been a fan of Harbour House. First, their Kalk Bay restaurant, with the waves crashing on the rocks underneath and seals frolicking in the waters. The fresh fish always kept me coming back.
I was very happy to hear of their opening in the V&A, and it’s another great venue. A beautifully designed structure [...]
What I want to know is; what are they going to do when service is over and they discover that someone has pinched the wheels?
Whoa there!
Food trucks? What disaster has struck? Are the population starving? Are they staying indoors so much this winter that the food must now be delivered door to door?
No, folks, none [...]
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Mussels are tasty, inexpensive, nutritious, sustainable (that will keep all the folk at SASSI happy) and are in plentiful supply.
So why is it so hard to get a decent bowl of these fresh beauties in Cape Town?
I mean, we are 3/4’s surrounded by fresh unpolluted ocean, and, in fact, you can actually forage on beaches [...]
I’ve never been to Hartford House in KwaZulu-Natal, and never eaten Jackie Cameron’s food there.
But I have met Jackie, and I have eaten her Pizza.
And I can tell you it’s fantastic.
Called the Carpe Fungi it has no tomato base, and is a sublime combination of mozzarella, caramelised onion, roasted mushroom, roasted garlic, parmesan, beef carpaccio, [...]
Last Saturday the moon seemed huge, it being closer to Earth than normal.
A cloudless night meant that the landscape was lit up magnificently, and served as an atmospheric backdrop to a dinner hosted by biodynamic wine farmers, Avondale, at their Paarl wine estate.
Sonia Cabano paired a six course meal with Avondale wines.
The food was superb, [...]
Chef’s bored? Does it happen? Is it possible?
Well apparently it is, judging from this selection of photographs which Jos Baker has kindly forwarded to me.
Some of them will surely bring a smile to your face …….. maybe just a bit?
Purists are horrified all over the world with Skyfall, the newest James Bond movie due out in November.
Our hero, Bond, will not be sipping his usual Vodka Martinis, ’shaken not stirred’, but instead he is going to quaff a beer.
I don’t know whether it’s out of a glass or by the neck, but the skinny [...]
Robertson Winery has launched their first single-cultivar extra light red wine – The Robertson Winery Extra Light Merlot 2011. This wine, without losing any of its freshness and fruit flavours, at 9.13% alcohol by volume, is around 30% lighter in alcohol than Robertson Winery’s standard Merlot 2011.
Robertson Winery uses the term [...]
They are all related you know. That’s the kind of world we live in.
We all want to be thinner, fitter, more active, use less petrol and spend less money on necessities (roll on the luxuries I say).
Petrol is more expensive, carbs are a no no but protein is expensive, and electricity has gone up in [...]
The idea of recreating the last evening on the Titanic appealed instantly to me.
The 1st class menu was the last meal the likes of Benjamin Guggenheim and John Jacob Astor ate before drowning in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic nearly 100 years ago.
The plan is to hold it in the Nellie (where else?) [...]
A welcome breeze of fresh Californian thinking has blown through the doors of Mulderbosch wine estate in Stellenbosch.
A new winemaker (Adam Mason, 8 year veteran at Klein Constantia) and a new general manager (Chrianto Oosthuizen, nearly 20 year veteran at Neil Ellis Wines) have come on board.
Boutique luxury hotel and wine estate operators Terroir Capital [...]
It’s that time of year again – and one of the most unique cultural events in South Africa takes place on the Solms Delta Estate, Franschhoek, on March 24th.
Celebrate the end of harvest with Franschhoek Oesfees, which starts at 10am and goes on until 9pm in the evening.
Tickets cost R130, or you can get the [...]
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From September this year you’ll be able to trundle through the Franschhoek winelands on a trolley.
Leaving from near the Franschhoek Cellar, where the old railway station is located, you’ll travel at a sedate 18kms per hour and will be able to view the scenery and the vines as you traverse the valley.
Wouldn’t it be great [...]
It’s here; Sushi Sundays at One&Only.
From February 19th, Nobu Cape Town will be offering their Sushi Sundays in the Nobu Lounge from 6pm until 9pm as a permanent fixture.
Sushi Sundays are priced at R150 per person and include 8 pieces of assorted nigiri and 6 pieces of sushi cut roll.
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