Build it and they will come. That is the birth story of Ferdinando’s and their quest to sell 10,000 pizzas. Our friends, Kimon and Diego have been opening their doors to family and friends for countless fun, vibrant foodie celebrations. Whether it was a birthday or post-4am Long Street search for food, we always were…
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8 of the Tastiest Locally-Made Foods That Will Make Your Day | Cape Town, South Africa
Keeping the love alive. These 8 food creators in Cape Town, South Africa win my heart. Yes, the list can go on and will. But this is what comes to mind for now. Guide yourself down this golden road of food happiness that will make your day and please share with me your favourites to…
CONNECT BACK TO NATURE: Urban Food Foraging
The more time we spend using whole food ingredients, the more curious we become of their source and qualities. We may begin to ask questions such as – “How do eggplants grow?” “Can I eat the green tops of carrots?” “What can grape leaves be used for?” “Are those mulberries?” Our curiosity for nature and…
Photo Essay: A Food Tour of Detroit’s Eastern Market
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Top Ten South African Foods to Try While Visiting South Africa
What do people eat in South Africa? I came to study in South Africa, Education, Sociolinguistics and Ethnographic Research. After I got accepted into the program, my google searches involved, surfing South Africa, capoeira South Africa and food South Africa. I didn’t know much about the food in South Africa when I arrived but I…
Eating Kale:Yuppie-Guilt or Social Tool for change?
I recently came across a blog post that said “20-things-everyone-thinks-about-the-food-world-but-nobody-will-say.” If you’re a kale-loving, politically correct “foodie” interested in CSAs, molecular gastronomy, and not getting your bubble burst, run away now—shit’s about to get real. It went on to say some pretty funny, real and ridiculous shit and brought up statements like: Locavorism has become the…
Share. Cook. Love: The Cook Book
Our story began 2005, Feb 14th. Durban, South Africa. A Surfer met a Gypsy at Capoeira class. It was a Monday, after the first day of our third year at University. 7 years later, in the province where it all began, we told everyone we loved to join us for a festival of families, a…
Semi-Sweet Film Food Documentary: Life in Chocolate
It’s 37 degrees in Paris while Patrick Roger’s chocolatier workshop is busy transporting his sculpture of a Orangutan made of chocolate. Chocolate melts at 37 degrees, the same as our body’s temperature. Roger explains: “Chocolate acts the way we do . . . It’s a love story.” Roger’s story amongst others features in the food…
What to Eat when Visiting Greece’s villages: Nourishing Food Traditions
Summertime and road tripping lead to some of my favorite food adventure memories. In Greece, you can drive on national highways and come across Greek village tavernas that serve greek horiatiki salads under grapevines. Roadside stalls are piled with local fresh, dried, and preserved food that have been made and celebrated for centuries. Tradition, food…
A Durban Curry Bunny Chow Heat Feast in Cape Town
Climate change and Durban curry? What do they have in common? It’s the only meal that will cool you down when a sub-tropical heatwave rolls through Cape Town. A humid blanket covered the the whole city. To survive the heat, we consumed the heat. We invited our friends and a self-proclaimed Durban curry chef to…
The Perfect Beach Snack: Nutella Loukoumades (Donuts) in Parga, Greece
You can’t get more indulgent than pouring Nutella over fried dough. Well I wouldn’t mind adding fresh strawberries or crushed almonds into the mix. Regardless, everyone around the world loves fried dough. North Americans call it doughnuts, South Africans call it vetkoek, Greeks call it loukoumades. But not everyone pours Nutella over it. My friend…
Greek Glory: The Kebab Pita at Thanasis
I had a layover in Athens back in 2008. The first stop I made when I got out the airport was at Thanasi’s Greek kefta kebab pita joint. I sat in the middle of Monastiraki square and savoured each bite. The pita kebab filled my tastebuds with the celebrated spices that have influenced Greek cuisine…
Spinach and Agushi: Ghanaian Flavour at the Portobello Market
As I’m writing this my mouth is watering again. We went to London to celebrate my Pop’s “Bones” 70th birthday year. We travelled 9623 km from Cape Town and hopped around the 940 metres of Portobello Market in London. There were hundreds of stalls to choose from for our varied market food palettes. I came…
Love and Local Produce on the Umtamvuna River Bank
We found it, one part wild, one part green, two parts water and three parts love. The place we plan to get married and celebrate the love adventure and journey up ahead. And it has been ever evolving into a beautiful recipe with such variations and discoveries, the metaphor for love found in the chemistry…
Step by Step-Easy Dolmades Recipe (just like your Yiayia’s)
In less than a month, I’ll be back in Greece buying white peaches from my Yiayia’s (grandmother) neighbourhood laiki (produce market) and learning how to make feta cheese from the thea’s (Aunties) in the horio (village). But lately I’ve been channeling my ancestors by consuming far too many olives and craving those cultural food comforts…
Communal Meals and Charcuterie at Glen Oakes Guest Farm
Have you ever stayed in a stone cottage with pigs and sheep as your next acre neighbour? In Hemel an Aarde Valley, there is a pig farm. Eight of us spent an electricity-free weekend on a farm greeting free-ranging piglets and making communal breakfast from the farm’s fresh eggs (and guess where the bacon came…
Raise your Glass to Gugulethu Wine Festival
Just like food and wine pairing flavours highlight salt, sweet, sour, bitter or umami (lekker or ‘scrumptious’), the Gugulethu Wine Festival proved to be a super umami event experience pairing all the right festival flavours. On the same weekend of the Good Food and Wine Festival, Gugulethu hosted a vibrant well-attended wine tasting event founded…
Mopani or mopane worms (caterpillars) taste like dried leaves
“They taste like a bit like biltong or chicken, I love them!” she explained. “Actually, they taste more like leaves.” A bag of Mopani worms are sitting dried in my cupboard waiting for my “how to cook this” experimentation session. My seastar, Nokulinda, bought them from a Sangoma down the road from her work in…
The Search for Cape Town’s Best Gatsby Sandwich
Once upon a time there was the Gatsby Sandwich. Related to its American cousin, Hoagie. Gatsby is South African, from the Cape Flats, and is the ultimate meal you can carry like a newborn baby, it’s as heavy as one too, crammed with a variety of ingredients and most commonly accompanied with chips stuffed inside. The Gatsby…
Gatesville Saturday Market
My friend, Michelle and I drove past Athlone into Gatesville to dive into the goods at the Saturday market. Along Klipfontein Rd, tents and vendors hugged three blocks of the sidewalk selling fresh aloe, socks, produce, breyani and jewelry. We weaved through the daily market shoppers and poked our way through aesthetically fun and random…
World Nutella Day
Feb. 5th is World Nutella Day and it’s a surprise that I missed it. I had a love affair with Nutella in 2003 and it lasted til 2005. During that time I was the main author of “How to incorporate Nutella into 3 meals a day” the sub-title should have been “how to gain…
The Rotating Lamb Spit at Up the Creek
We floated on the Brede River for 8 hours, jammed to great South African music collaborations and ate delicious festival food at Up the Creek. There was one food tent where Ma and Pa came up the creek and cooked for their whole festival family. From a military tent, the food army family catering…
Dim Sum in New York City’s China Town
In countries that celebrate the Chinese New Year, more food is consumed during the New Year celebrations than any other time of the year. Which reminds me of my time in China Town, New York City. We weren’t eating traditional New Year foods but celebrated Chinese cuisine with the most delectable dim sum.With my…
The Culinary Linguist 