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. The new...
Food
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 movement,...
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 comes at an...
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.
Hannerie Visser is designing food for a much drier future
Studio 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 the studio’s founder to find out more.