“There are old mushroom hunters, there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters” – anon.
The point is that you need to know your stuff, getting some decent advice from someone who is knowledgeable, or else you’ll kill or severly injure yourself.
Gary Goldman is the Go-To guy in Cape Town [...]
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Andy Fenner is known to people in the food business in Cape Town, and after a few appearances as a blogger (remember jamiewho?), which was when I first met him, a blogger in a portal, afficionado, (a kind of hipsters guide to cooldom in the Mother City), he has now transmogrified himself [...]
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 [...]
Kate Schrire is the kind of local producer that we admire.
She’s feisty, passionate, dedicated and a major addition to the artisanal producer scene in Cape Town.
She makes great tasting ice cream, chock full of the best ingredients to be found in the Western Cape.
She gets her cream and eggs from local producers. Her strawberries come [...]
I like it when a winemaker does something left of centre. It means that he, or she, might apply the same approach to their wines or the business of selling and marketing them.
So it was with great interest I went to the Red Black & White Gallery ( a fantastic place) last night in Bosman’s [...]
Roxanne Floquet has a rare talent. I am letting her tell you about it in her own words.
I love the start to finish process of making a cake, of pouring in so much love and perfecting every stage. There is an immense sense of satisfaction that I draw from people’s delight as they experience the first [...]
Of all the meats freely available to consumers in supermarkets and butcheries, pork is one of the most problematic. Factory line production has seen to that.
Sourcing some decent, ethically reared, free range pork has really been a problem, for me anyway.
Free range pork does not contain hormones or antibiotics and the pigs have been allowed to [...]
I love spiders in the Kitchen
Emma Wyngaard designs and makes the most delectable items
for the kitchen.
Aprons, tea-towels napkins and runners for dining tables.
Emma is a born and bred Capetonian.
She studied design at the Foundation School of
Art in Cape Town.
Her first love was photography but then the interior design
bug (or spider) bit her while she was [...]
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Antonino Allegra is a chocolatier, he was born in Sicily and is now based in Cape Town.
He’s got big plans for chocolate eaters in this country,’ my aim’ he tells me’ is to sell one piece of chocolate to each woman in this country and make them happy, that is my goal.’
To this end, he [...]
‘Coffee should never taste bitter and sour’.
Renato Correia owns the Espresso Lab located in the Biscuit Mill in Woodstock. He comes from Portugal and to say he is knowledgeable about coffee is an understatement.
He’s a walking library on the subject and much more he is passionate about this brown liquid. His love for coffee which [...]
My tasting notes are that this is a smooth, full bodied, peaty but not smokey whisky. There’s a slight sweetness, but it’s a well balanced whisky, without harshness or “grab the back of your throat” qualities.
It has just been launched and will retail for R200, which is a steal at that price. Only 8,000 bottles [...]
And you thought your apples in the local supermarket were just picked, bagged and shipped?
Wrong.
I accepted an invite to visit the Two a Day fruit people last week. They asked me to come and have a look at their production and packing facility in Elgin.
Ok, I was going on to a lunch where tasting Elgin [...]
Michael De Klerk and Anthony Gird are two very lucky guys.
They get to melt, stir, spoon and mould chocolate.
And then they get to taste their work.
I joined them for one of their daily chocolate making sessions and it was an eye opening experience.
First of all they use unroasted organic raw cocoa beans in making their [...]
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 every day by very happy chickens, clucking their way around [...]
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, [...]
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