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IT'S a great month for British drama on Showmax, with This Is Going To Hurt, Landscapers and The Responder all up and ready to binge right now, all of which I highly recommend. You can rest easy with the eternal book-to-screen debate with This Is Going To Hurt, because author (and real life…
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IT’S a year since BritBox launched in South Africa, bringing you the best of British telly to stream at your leisure, a to celebrate this milestone, it has three new and exclusive titles launching in August, featuring some of the leading names working in British entertainment today. The darkly…
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IT was a legit road trip for PR star Yolandi de Wet, who had the brilliant idea to take four media folk - in her own car - for a day in the countryside to visit Bonnievale Wines and the town with the same name. It's 150km due east of Cape Town, the literature tells me; Yolandi drove from Hermanus to…
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THE annual release of De Wetshof Limestone Hill, one of South Africa's most popular unwooded Chardonnays, has always been cause for excitement. Not only for the wine, which is wonderful of course, but for the event at which it is unveiled. After two non-years for that, it was back with a flourish…
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IT began with me being tagged in an Instagram post by Kim Katzke of Homestead Serendipity in Montagu. She'd eaten at the brand spanking new Kapokbos restaurant at Weltevrede in Bonnievale, and urged me to visit “when I was in the area” which I was (spending a long weekend in McGregor), so I went. …
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WHAT if - hear me out - you could eat a delicious almost exclusively vegan meal, without even realising it? In all my years as a food writer, I've been happy to eat almost anything (late-in-life allergies notwithstanding), which has been very useful, allowing me to enjoy meat, dairy, and yes…
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LAST week we shared some winter warming soup recipes from the South African Mushroom Farmers' Association. Here are some breads to go with them, or to eat on their own. Because bread is life. The methods are long but the results are worth the effort. MUSHROOM BREADSTICKS WITH MUSHROOM TZATZIKI …
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NO naming and shaming but there are some series that are utterly incomprehensible. I'm not talking about sharp, intelligent series that exercise the brain and bring joy like an Amor Towles novel does, because we love those; I mean the ones that when a new season begins and you can't remember what…
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THIS month The South African Mushroom Farmers' Association has shared some super duper soup recipes, just the ticket for cold days and nights. Tune in again next week for three bread recipes that you can make as a side dish for your soup, as a starter, or simply on their own. For more information,…
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IS there anything more civilised than afternoon tea? Yes, morning tea. Same with naps; traditionally they are taken in the afternoon but I am a strong supporter of the morning nap.Not as a replacement, but a supplement. Mail me for more advice. At The Cellars-Hohenort, you can now enjoy a…
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