Published on November 1, 2023

Chef and businesswoman Sepial Shim creates plates of South Korean food that’s as good for your heart as it is for your health.  Lining the walls of Sepial Shim’s workspaces are jars of garlic, ginseng, tea, baby radish, grapes, peaches and cucumber fermenting in their own specific concoction. One day, when they’re ready, they’ll pop […]

Published on October 26, 2023

There are few things as upsetting as reaching for an ingredient, only to find out it expired three weeks ago. From oatmeal to condiments like soya sauce, here are five foods with a long shelf life, along with some helpful storage tips.   Oatmeal   How long it lasts: Two to three years  Oatmeal, the number one […]

Published on October 24, 2023

’Tis the season for show-stopping meals. What better way to impress your friends and family than a roaring roast? Here are five decadent and delicious roast recipes to prepare this festive season.  Cranberry and balsamic roast chicken  Serves 4 // Cooking time 2 hours 20 minutes Ingredients  For the marinade  ¾ cup dried cranberries ¾ […]

Published on October 17, 2023

Greek cooking’s simple, healthy and flavourful platters of herby bits and bobs are meant to be shared for hours with a crowd. If left alone on a Greek island, this would be our menu…   Prawn salad with garlic and chilli dressing  Serves 8  Thread the prawns onto skewers and cook over a hot griddle pan to […]

Published on October 11, 2023

These crowd-pleasers are easy to make in big batches, can be altered for non-alcoholic options and require little to no effort. All you need is sugar syrup!  Make a sugar syrup:  Add 1 cup sugar and 1 cup water to a pot over medium heat. Boil for 5 minutes, remove and set aside to cool. […]

Published on October 3, 2023

There’s an ongoing debate around sugar and its impact on our bodies. Registered dietician Aziwe Booi sets the record straight on some common misbeliefs.   We live in a day and age where there is plenty of misinformation about food and dieting, especially sugar! Sugar is something we all seem to have a love-hate relationship with […]

Published on September 26, 2023

From being the key ingredient in your spaghetti Bolognese to the core of your Caprese salad, the humble tomato is always our produce saviour. Here are some of the best-known varieties.  1. Heirloom tomatoes  Heirloom tomatoes vary in shape, size, colour and taste. So, what makes an heirloom tomato, well, an heirloom tomato? The seeds […]

Published on September 13, 2023

Editor Chad January shares a meal with Zola Nene and her family to celebrate her latest Gourmand Cookbook award, and reflect on the milestones along the way.  For many of us South Africans, Zola Nene is a household name. So much so that it’s difficult to imagine that she almost didn’t grace our screens and […]

Published on August 31, 2023

Sjaan van der Ploeg explores layers of age-old culture within the pages of a new cookbook by legendary cook Cariema Isaacs.  Chef, food stylist and cookbook author Cariema Isaacs’s fourth cookbook, Modern Cape Malay Cooking, is fast becoming a staple in homes across South Africa. While reading this book, as someone unfamiliar with the Cape […]

Published on August 31, 2023

MasterChef Australia finalist Ben Ungermann has found his (culinary) home away from home in SA.   Soy lecithin’, ‘Agar-agar’ and ‘Calcium Alginate’ were the kinds of cooking terms that were totally foreign to Ben Ungermann, a self-professed home cook, when he entered MasterChef Australia in May 2017.  When he stepped onto set, he had to make […]