SOMETHING TO PROOF
WHY AND HOW TO USE A PROOFING BASKET The longer you continue on your food journey, the more you discover new ways to take your culinary skills up a notch. […]
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MY FRANSE KOSVERHAAL
Elke storie het ‘n begin. Myne begin aan die tafels van my ma en ouma, waar die begrip van Suid-Afrikaanse gasvryheid stadig maar seker my bewussyn binnegesypel het om die
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WHAT HAPPENED AT THE KFM BOUJEE BRAAI?
Last Friday night, on 5 March 2021, I hosted a virtual Boujee Braai with Carl Wastie and Zoë Brown, KFM’s Flashdrive team, on the roof of JAN Innovation Studio in
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HOW BAZAAR
A LOOK AT ONE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S MOST NOSTALGIC PASTIMES We tend to think of a bazaar – South Africans, at least – as a community event, usually held in
A FAMILY BAKERY
For a business to go through three generations of hands and to still retain its heart is rare. Black Forest Bakery in Braamfontein has been in German hands, in one
MAKE YOUR BAKE A PIECE OF CAKE
MY TOP BAKING ESSENTIALS Not a lot of people know this, but I started my chef career in pastry, so I’m very particular about my baking utensils. Saying that, there’s
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MAKERS LANDING
CAPE TOWN’S HOTTEST NEW FOODIE ATTRACTION Since it was first established in the 1860s after the discovery of diamonds in South Africa, the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town has become
Nip Tuck
GREAT USES FOR YOUR KITCHEN SCISSORS You say shears, I say scissors. It’s all very potato-potahto. Whatever you call that cutting tool with the opposing blades in your second drawer,
WHY CHOCOLATE IS STILL THE SEXIEST FOOD
AN EXPLORATION OF THE SENSES There are many who believe that chocolate is an aphrodisiac. What follows next may not be that dissimilar from discovering that Father Christmas is, in
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THE BEE’S KNEES
The beauty (and versatility) of beeswaxIn “A Guide to Honey”, a super informative article in JAN the Journal Volume 6 about the lives of bees and how they produce honey,