Nikki Langner is the inspiration and driving force behind Feast.
It’s a catering company but that’s too bland a description for what Feast does.
Providing delicious, inspiring food to wow and awe guests is Nikki’s passion and she feels this is what she is meant to be doing.
Birthday parties are big business for Feast.
Clients love Nikki’s unusual and tasty [...]
I published a post a while ago on the valuable learning I got when doing a taste taste with bottled waters.
Read the post here. http://www.spill.co.za/tast-test/taste-test-mineral-water/2088/
Apart from the fact that some the bottled waters are not actually mineral water (tap water which has been bottled), and that you could poison yourself slowly drinking the stuff, the [...]
Cold smoking is a cooking method used to preserve and enhance food. It is a delicate process, requiring know how and high quality ingredients.
It is different from hot smoking, which ‘cooks’ the food at a high temperature over a short period of time.
With cold smoking the temperature stays in the 20’s or early 30’s, and [...]
Bos, organic rooibos ice tea.
No preservatives, no colourants, no caffeine.
Comes in lemon, apple, peach and natural flavours.
Does exactly what it says on the tin.
A cool tea, with a cool taste, in a cool can.
This is the new range of ice teas called Bos.
Rooibos is the primary ingredient in all these Bos teas.
This range is made [...]
I have a secret that I would like to share with all the lovely readers and supporters of this blog.
I have discovered the most amazing eggs in Cape Town. They are called, very appropriately,Happy Eggs . These little golden wonder orbs are laid everyday by very happy chickens, clucking their way around a paddock in [...]
My mission; to find the freshest fish for sale in Cape Town.
Friends and contacts made helpful suggestions. Kalk Bay?, Willoughby’s? certain supermarkets? a fish shop in Woodstock?
So why the urge to find out more about fish?
Perhaps it had to do with having eaten fish most of the time on my recent trip to Spain, or [...]
Desmond Ball had a pain in his face being asked by people around Fish Hoek “When are you going to make some of the original chutney like what Mrs.Ball’s made?” He had to endure complaints that they’d changed the recipe, changed the taste, changed everything. It was nothing like the original.
Now Desmond is the Great [...]
As more scare stories emerge about our food we are more concerned than ever about where the food we eat originates from.
But being practical, we cannot go down to every field and examine where the lamb played and nibbled the daisies, or check every farm to see that the chickens we eat are really free range, [...]
Cup cakes have taken South Africa and Cape Town by storm.
Established bakeries, home producers, wedding cake makers, food stylists and pastry chefs across South Africa can’t keep up with the demand for them. And, it seems, you have to order ahead most of the time, as they are best eaten freshly made.
Jacqui Biess, of Charly’s [...]
This is the ultimate Too Tired to Cook choice for anyone who is too busy or too tired to rustle up a tasty nourishing meal on a winter’s evening.
I came across Richard Chamberlain on the recommendation of a friend and visited his kitchens in Mowbray.
A reassuring aroma of delicious home cooking smells assailed my nostrils as I went up [...]
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There I was, wheeling my trolley around the aisles of Woolworths, minding my own business.
When when out of the corner of my eye I spotted a gold foil wrapped cheese sitting behind the glass cabinet.
I swung abruptly and skidded to a halt, and stared at the round of cheese, and yes, there it was, in all its [...]
Di Marshall set up Wonki Ware pottery in George in 1999. A former advertising executive, she decided to follow her dream and pottery was, and still is, her passion.
He ambition was to manufacture environmentally friendly pottery, hand made by local skilled and trained craftspeople. Starting with one employee she now employs 35 people and exports [...]
“Hmmmm….Thick, silky, moreish,Ummmm……. indescribably delicious…. luscious velvet feel over your tongue Mmmmmm……..I want more!!”
The two posh middle aged ladies in the corner of Melissas, Newlands were in raptures.
I was reminded of the scene in “When Harry met Sally” where Sally gets a little excited in a restaurant. I also felt like the old lady who looks on [...]
It’s called The Kug.
It’s a cross between a kettle and a mug. The inventors say ” A Kiss and a Hug, a Kettle in a Mug”, and recommend that you kiss it when you drink from it and hug it with your hands.
The new design is a mug that contains a hidden electrical element. You [...]
I agreed to meet a man, on my own, in darkness, in a deserted carpark.
The reasons were not the ones you might think. The man was Mushroom Hunter extraordinaire Gary Goldman, and he was taking me on an early morning hunt up through the forested mountain slopes of Newlands Forest.
Gary supplies top restaurants with porcini in Cape [...]
Martin Senekal’s obsession with architecture and design have influenced the stunning designs of his cakes.
You could call him the Philip Treacy of cake design.
Some of them look so good that it’s a shame to actually cut into them and eat them.
But it’s not all looks. The cakes are delicious, and ingredients are of top quality. [...]
Olive trees need sun, silence and fertile soils to prosper, and there is a valley not far from Cape Town which olive trees love.
The Nuy Valley is located an hour and twenty minutes out of Cape Town. You’d drive past it easily, as I have done many times, on the way up Route 62.
This is home to [...]
Prince Albert sits in an enviable location – sheltered and watered by the Swartberg Mountains, lying in a long narrow valley that has warm days and cool nights, thanks to the southerly breeze.
This makes it ideal for producing a range of products from olives and figs to cheese and wine.
It’s growing reputation has been enhanced in [...]
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