People are hungry. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that over 2 billion people across the globe do not have regular access to safe, nutritious...
Food
Activist and artist Zayaan Khan reclaims buried wisdom
The world is scrambling to find solutions to its problems. There is a sense of desperate urgency in our polluted air. How are we going to feed the burgeoning population? Reduce carbon...
How veganism inspired Shaun Robertson to leave the fashion world
Cape Town-based vegan food photographer, food stylist, and co-owner of Vegan Goods Market, Shaun Robertson lived and breathed fashion for 22 years. But after graduating from the Cape...
How to shop safely and sustainably for groceries during lockdown
Twyg chatted to three local grocers and the Head of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of Cape Town to clear a few COVID-19 and grocery questions up for us.
Tried and Tested: 4 Fresh Food Deliveries
These tried and tested local Cape Town food brands are perfect to kickstart your lockdown level 4. With the press of a button, you can have fresh tasty treats at your doorstep in no time....
Make it Better: Will veganism save the world?
We need an overhaul of how we eat and how we farm. Industrial animal agriculture is inhumane and morally reprehensible. It also contributes to global warming and is a leading cause of...
Nude Foods, a Cape Town zero waste store turns one
Nude Foods, the zero waste store in Cape Town’s CBD, turned one last week. We're delighted to have the store in town! Since it first opened its doors at 5 Constitution Street it has grown...
Peter Templehoff infuses exotic flavours into old favourites
What: Lunch tasting menu Where: Greenhouse at the Cellars-Honenhort Hotel in Constantia (021 481-1948) How much: R1200 for a seven-course meal including wine (R850 excluding wines)...
Top Cape chefs consider sustainability integral to their businesses
Peter Templehoff’s spring lunch menu doesn’t feature cockroach or flies. Yet. For now, the menu is everything you’d expect from one of the country’s top restaurants. Peter’s Greenhouse...
Review: The Modern Cook’s Year by Anna Jones
Food is undergoing intense scrutiny. One reason is we are becoming increasingly concerned about our health and what we put into our bodies. Besides the nasty toxins we’ve become aware of,...
If you want to eat clean and green, is the future halaal?
When Muslims from India and Pakistan began arriving in the United Kingdom in large numbers in the 1960s, they imported two anxieties common to immigrants: what to eat, and where to pray....
Our zero waste heroes show us how to lighten up
You would have heard of the zero waste movement by now. The “priestess of waste-free living” Bea Johnson, a French woman in America, toured South Africa a year ago to promote the global...
Chitter-chatter about conscious food
Stop eating prawns. Now. A dish of grilled prawns with garlic butter is one of life’s luxuries. But it comes at a price. Not only will the dish of prawns cost you a few hundred rands, it...
Waste not, want more at the Belmond Mount Nelson
A five-course meal made from food that otherwise would have ended up in a dirt bin or the hotel’s worm farm, proves that that there is no such thing as food waste. But how good does it taste?
ABALOBI: the app that gets sustainable fish from small-scale fishers to your plate
Bistro1682 in the Constantia is the first restaurant to try the app and says that the number of people ordering fish to eat has skyrocketed.