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The North's Star

It’s a massive honour too because the restaurant scene is blooming here. Everyone who knows me personally knows that I push every day and night to be a better version of myself.

Ready, Steady, Eat!

In Berlin to run a half marathon, former MasterChef SA winner Kamini Pather used the opportunity to sample the German capital’s thriving food scene – all in her pink takkies, no less

Real Corkers

No other bottle can take you through the day quite as effortlessly – from brunch to midnight toasts. Here’s the Allan Mullins guide to the local and foreign bubbles that should fill your glass this summer

Gin-Spiration!

Tired of shelling out for artisanal gin? This party season, buy a cheaper bottle and get creative with your own home infusions

Holy Cannoli!

Palermo ranks as one of the world’s top streetfood destinations, which means it’s time to give mainland Italy the boot and fly to Sicily instead. Melanie van Zyl ate her way to the heart of cannoli country

Deck The Halls

If crackers and fake holly are the extent of your Christmas table décor, it’s time to up your game. To inspire you, we asked floral design guru Heike Hayward to create the ultimate festive table, using flowers, fresh produce and beautiful crockery. And we loved it so much we decided to make it a series

How The Cookie Crumbles

This year, bake up a batch of the fudgiest, crumbliest, easiest, most delicious home-made treats to share with friends, decorate the tree or give as gifts. Biscuits or cookies, sweet or savoury – leave out a plate of these babies on Christmas Eve and you’ll definitely score with Santa

Cook Like A Chef

One of the hardest working chefs in the business, Bertus Basson says his restaurants are how his dreams “get to live”. The spin-off cookbook from his TV show, Being Bertus Basson, features some of the most popular dishes from all his restaurants so you can taste a bit of the dream in your own home

Round Trip

Yes, Luke Dale Roberts has opened a new restaurant, but it’s head chef Ryan Cole you should pay attention to this time. Straight off the back of helping The Test Kitchen secure the title of Best Restaurant in Africa, he’s now headlining Salsify at the Roundhouse

The Brew Crew

You have to be bold to open a brewery in the heart of the Cape winelands, it’s true. But when you’re a Belgian beer enthusiast with a two talented women on your team – one an award-winning brewer and the other a chef who has cooked for a Hollywood action hero – how can you fail?

Gogo's Kitchen

Award-winning author Nozizwe Cynthia Jele relives her earliest food memories, from soft porridge (good) to her first brinjals (bad), all cooked by her grandmother

What I Know Now - Tamsin Snyman

As an academy chair for The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, Tamsin Snyman has a unique perspective on how SA’s food scene measures up globally. She talks consistency, frozen chocolate mousse and continuing her mother’s incredible legacy

What's For Pudding?

You don’t have to be a woman to be a great pastry chef, but these women are all undeniably at the top of the dessert game. We asked them to share their most requested, most foolproof recipes because nothing brings happiness like a wedge of cheesecake you can call your own

Ashley Moss

Would you believe the guy who spearheaded the now famous weekly waste challenge at the Greenhouse at the Cellars-Hohenort in Cape Town just kind of “fell into” becoming a chef?

Eat Every Last Bite

That last mouthful you leave on your plate costs so much more than you think, says Justin Smith. Just a few small changes in your kitchen can make a massive difference to both your budget and the planet

The Unusual Suspects

Introducing the new Signature Series, a collection of wines crafted by Allan Mullins and six of SA's top winemakers for Woolies. You won’t find single-varietal wines this good (and at such a bargain) anywhere else

Liqueured Up

If you have a half bottle of entry-level vodka and some fruit or herbs in the fridge near their sell-by date, we think an introduction is long overdue

Thinking Out Of The Bin

Anthony Bourdain has just released a new food waste documentary, Dan Barber ran another waste menu pop-up in London and, locally, food experience designers Studio H recently held a conference with a line-up starring the who’s who of produce rescuers. Here’s what they brought to the table…

Five Minutes With... Siv Ngesi

Meat is meat and man must eat, especially if you wear the hats of comedian, actor, TV presenter and producer. Unsurprisingly, we found Siv at Cape Town’s Carne SA, about to tuck into a bone-in fillet.

... Cucumbers

When a heatwave strikes, these cool customers will hit the spot – in an icy super-smoothie, starring in a chilled soup, or blended into a fresh dressing for a cheesy summer salad.

Make A Meal Of It

Who in their right mind still has midweek dinner parties? Christine Capendale, that’s who. In her new book Meals, the cooking teacher shares her one-course strategy (and a Caprese chicken schnizza!) for actually having friends over again, and again

One For All

All you need is your biggest pot (or pan) and Phillippa Cheifitz’s easy, Italian-inspired recipes and you have five of the best weeknight suppers this side of Naples. No-stir risotto? Tick. Garlicky fall-apart lamb? Tick. Minimal washing up? Tick. You’ve got this

Big Night?

Great Italian cooking starts at home. Just ask an Italian. It starts in your nonna’s kitchen where simple, regional classics have been perfected over generations. ABIGAIL DONNELLY honours the originals here, with a few inspired (and ethical) twists of her own

Bean Counting

When you’re not dunking a rusk into your favourite brew (see page 84), we think espresso-infused affogato, mocha crème caramel or tiramisu cheesecake are the best way to get your caffeine fix

Jose Avillez

With a string of successful restaurants behind his name, including the two-Michelin-starred Belcanto in Lisbon, the 38-year-old is undisputedly Portugal’s top chef. He chatted to Ishay Govender-Ypma about sharing recognition, charity beginning at home and how cooking for diners is like being a clown in a circus

Dates To Remember

Cutting back on sweets and chocolates after the festive season isn’t easy, especially for a four-year-old, but Sam Woulidge’s love of dried fruit (and nostalgia) saves Seb from lunchbox gloom

The Reluctant Cook

Her lack of interest in cooking belies Georgia Black’s passion for food. She’s even created a business around it – Littlegig festival, where the menu for the weekend is just as important as the music

Liquidity Forecast

Wine producers, sommeliers and bartenders know exactly what you should be drinking more of this year. Here are their seven serving suggestions for 2018

Alicia Wilkinson

They might not agree on everything (like which scales are best) but the Silwood School of Cookery principal and her daughter Carianne make as formidable a team as Carianne did with her late mom, Lesley Faul.

10 Reasons To Love Tapas

The Spanish are said to have invented tapas (“lids”) so the locals could keep flies out of their drinks – while also cutting down on drunken bar brawls – but these days they’re a genre all of their own. And thanks to some ingenious local chefs, the plates may be small but they’re big on flavour and creativity. You may even need a siesta afterwards