Kos en wyn
Resensies, artikels en kos-rubrieke vir fynproewers
Reviews, articles and food columns for foodies
A braai white season - an exposé of the soft underbelly of the Afrikaner
2011-02-16 Christo Lombaard provides a tongue-in-cheek take on one of Afrikaans culture’s holy cows.
Onthoukos deur Heleen Meyer
2008-09-18 Onthoukos sal jou wys hoe om tradisionele Suid-Afrikaanse disse nes jou ma of ouma te kan maak.
The Coffee Trail
2008-07-30 Lourensford Estate, Somerset West – Home to the Coffee Roastery It’s in the beans! That’s the "Bible" when it comes to coffee. They (the beans) give it the crema, and the vuma. Coffee is the new energy, tea rooms are ...
The C Louis Leipoldt Trail
2007-12-12 C Louis Leipoldt is associated with Afrikaans poetry. One thinks of classics such as "Oktobermaand", or "In die konsentrasiekamp". This polymath, cum universal cum Renaissance man was a fine chef. While studying medicine at ...
The Eland Trail
2007-11-06 The roads in the Karoo are dusty Driving out into the open, breathing clean air … these are becoming newly discovered features of the ancient Karoo. The ...
The Mamma Roma Trail
2007-06-26 When you dine at Mamma Roma’s you can surely say Mamma Mia! Italians would exclaim the cooking is like Mamma’s – made with care and really nice. Like good Catholics they do not believe in cutting back on the number of Babba ...
My kitchen table: Early winter brings great joys and memories of childhood
2007-05-09 Early winter brings great joys and memories of childhood. Like memories of pomegranates, of which well-known South African poet Ingrid Jonker wrote, “laughter is like a split-open pomegranate.” Laughter was ours as we threw the ripe-red ...
My kitchen table: With the arrival of autumn ...
2007-04-12 I just love this early autumn weather - the extreme heat of the Cape summer is a thing of the past, leaving us with champagne days; April breezes kick up flurries of early dried leaves on the pavements; and there is dew on the lawn early in the ...
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
2007-02-12 Thought I’d use the old saying for what a bride should wear as the basis for my story to you this time.