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 […]

Published on August 29, 2023

From reheating leftovers to cooking those 5-minute meals, the microwave is an integral part of our kitchen. But while it is a convenient appliance, it’s a definite to ditch the microwave for reheating these four foods.  Leftover pizza  We know this Cinderella story all too well. The cheesy, delicious slice of pizza from the previous […]

Published on August 24, 2023

You don’t have to go to culinary school to learn some skills in the kitchen: now we can just turn to TikTok. Up your kitchen game with these helpful – and easy-to-pull-off – viral kitchen hacks. TikTok hack #1: Use a water bottle to separate the egg yolk from the white  For inexperienced home cooks, […]

Published on August 24, 2023

From the Boland to The Bay, Shermone Smith has always been her happiest in the kitchen. We turn our spotlight to this fierce culinary female who was recently promoted to Executive Sous Chef at The Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town.  The women in Shermone’s family have always played a big role in her love […]

Published on August 21, 2023

Whether you roast it in the oven, charr it over the coals or use it in stews and curries – we love the versatility of the humble whole chicken. But what do you do with the less-popular bits, such as the liver and bones? Here are four parts of the chicken you may have thrown […]