Food
May 11, 2020
How to shop safely and sustainably for groceries during lockdownTwyg 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. ...
May 3, 2020
Tried and Tested: 4 Fresh Food DeliveriesThese 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 ...
April 13, 2019
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 ...
December 10, 2018
Nude Foods, a Cape Town zero waste store turns oneNude 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 ...
November 23, 2018
Peter Templehoff infuses exotic flavours into old favouritesWhat: 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) Service: Excellent: unobtrusive and professional. ...
November 6, 2018
Top Cape chefs consider sustainability integral to their businessesPeter 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 offering is ...
September 17, 2018
Review: The Modern Cook’s Year by Anna JonesFood 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 ...
July 23, 2018
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 ...
June 14, 2018
Our zero waste heroes show us how to lighten upYou 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 ...
May 23, 2018
Chitter-chatter about conscious foodStop 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 ...
April 4, 2018
Waste not, want more at the Belmond Mount NelsonA 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 ...
March 29, 2018
ABALOBI: the app that gets sustainable fish from small-scale fishers to your plateBistro1682 in the Constantia is the first restaurant to try the app and says that the number of people ordering fish to eat has skyrocketed. ...
December 9, 2017
Hannerie Visser is designing food for a much drier futureStudio H has been exploring the future of food: the how and what we might be eating if we become more efficient as resources become scarcer. We sat down with ...