A Story I Wrote About Raw Beef for Life & Thyme

Tuesday, August 21st, 2018

I’ve loved eating raw beef since I was a little girl. In this story below, for Life & Thyme, I…

Babylonstoren: Where Gardening Met My iPhone

Wednesday, June 13th, 2018

Babylonstoren…I finally get you! You’re that beautiful, expansive, generous private botanical garden outside of Cape Town that for so long,…

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018

How do chefs and restaurants deal with a severe water crisis, like the one Cape Town is currently experiencing? I…

Thursday, April 19th, 2018

I recently wrote a story for food and drinks site Life & Thyme about the language of a South African…

Thursday, March 29th, 2018

Rooibos is phenomenal…a tea with super food powers that can only be grown in a very small region in South…

Wednesday, February 14th, 2018

Braaing — the South African version of barbecuing — is about so much more than cooking meat over a fire….

Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

I drive along beautiful coastline every day, yet I’m flushing my toilet with grey shower water, eating off paper plates…

Thursday, December 7th, 2017

Few in Cape Town have done more to introduce foodies, chefs, distillers, brewers and tourists to wild food, particularly fynbos…

Tuesday, October 31st, 2017

The Table at De Meye is a wonderful and relaxed farm-to-table restaurant in the Stellenbosch Valley of the Cape Winelands….

Friday, October 13th, 2017

One of the best things about what I do is getting to talk with chefs I admire. Bertus Basson —…