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Reza Mahammad cooks up a sumptuous feast at Explorers Club, Franschhoek
On a glorious autumnal day in Franschhoek Reza delivered a feast to over a dozen magazine editors and food writers in the comfort of Explorers Club, sponsored by Le Creuset, Chamonix, Colmant and Evian. The menu comprised of recipes in Reza’s new book, Reza’s Indian Spice. Reza’s skill is quite extraordinary and he had been…
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Absinthe: A taste and talk on the blisteringly powerful creative lubricant which has earned an enduring place in alcoholic folklore…with Roger Jorgensen of Jorgensens Distillery
What better way of welcoming in the festive cheer by coming to taste and listen to the story behind mind-bending effects of the notorious medicinal tonic, Absinthe, otherwise known as the Green Fairy, and its re-birth on a Wellington farm. Invented in the late nineteenth century, consumed by the bohemian café societies of Europe and…
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A glorious weekend exploring Indian Food with Reza Mahammed
If you can, do yourself a favour and call African Relish, the Cookery School in Prince Albert, and get your name on the waiting list for next year’s course hosted by the unplayable BBC personality and chef extraordinaire; Reza Mahammed. What a weekend!! It was a mesmerising display of colour and layers of exotic flavours…
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The Best Food Books of the Decade, by leading food writers
We all have our favourites but these are The Guardian’s official Top 10 and more…. ‘Putting together the picks of the decade in food and drink books has been rather a painful process, not least due to the number of outstanding volumes published in the last gasp of the old century. The trickiest example was…
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Franschhoek Restaurants in Top 10 again
Once again the village has been acknowledged for its culinary prowess providing two restaurants in the top 10 in the country and four in the top 20, in the latest 2010 Eat Out Magazine awards. The Tasting Room at Le Quartier Francais and The Restaurant at Grande Provence are this year’s flagships and the respective…
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New Prince Albert Cookery School opens
Prince Albert is on the gourmet map thanks to African Relish, a sparkling new culinary school offering cooking getaways at the gateway to the Great Karoo – and another good reason why you should visit PA. Previously of Franschhoek’s Grand Provence and Le Quartier Francais, and fu.shi restaurant in Plettenberg Bay, chef Vanie Padayachee (and…
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Following the aroma of Hospital Food
In the heart of Old Riga the doors opened at restaurant “Hospitālis” where everyone can enjoy a pseudo hospital atmosphere. Its creation involved Latvia’s largest hospitals and Medical history Museum, contributing to its authenticity is the fully restored attributes of the diverse medical offices from the Soviet era. It is rather bizarre. The menu sticks…
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Franschhoek Food launches book
It was a glorious late spring afternoon in Franschhoek, where about 70 guests gathered on the valley floor at La Brasserie, to celebrate the launch of Myrna Robins’ newest book, Franschhoek Food.
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Bugs on the menu – The Explorers Club Dinner
Every year, the Explorers Club (the esteemed New York one) holds its annual black-tie fund-raising dinner and cocktail hour at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, featuring its famous array of unusual eats and bug-filled dishes. Just some of the things on the hors d’oeuvres menu that night: Yak Wellington, sweet-and-sour bovine penis, maggot-covered strawberries,…
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Barossa's delectable local produce
What a great tradition! Steeped in a long history of home produce the Barossa Valley, north of Adelaide, has established a farmers market full of mouth-watering goodness. When on a recent tour of the winelands over there I popped in on a Saturday morning and started with a trademark and gooey organic egg and home-cured…
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Books For Cooks Bookshop in Notting Hill Gate, London
Books for Cooks is the perhaps the finest place in London to find the perfect present for anyone who loves food. When you walk through the door, you are hit by a wave of transporting cooking aromas emanating from the test kitchen at the back. It’s a foodie’s paradise. There are some 8,000+ recipe books filling…
