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JOIN cookbook duo Prim Reddy and Naranj Pather for a virtual food and cake celebration from their inspiring cookbook Temptations in the comfort of your lounge in aid of StreetSmart SA at 3pm on Sunday, July 26, 2020. Temptationsembraces the diverse culinary offerings in cosmopolitan South…
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GRUB & VINE and Radford Dale have launched an initiative to help keep the restaurant industry alive, and are calling on other able wineries to do the same. President Ramaphosa’s address on July 12, 2020 was another crippling blow to the hospitality industry, with the announcement of a new…
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MOVING away from traditional juniper-heavy flavours, South Africa’s craft gin scene has exploded with indigenous botanical infusions that have taken the world by storm, winning multiple local and international awards. Being an ideal country to produce gin varietals due to its abundance of unique…
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ONE of SA’s leading storytellers Sindiwe Magona’s Kwathi ke Kaloku/Once Upon a Time is featured at this year’s virtual National Arts Festival (NAF) Fringe programme. Produced by the Cape Town Music Academy, the production features a stellar cast together with internationally celebrated author…
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The Duchess Drinks Studio is welcoming a new addition to its innovative range of premium alcohol-free beverages, The Duchess Spritz – a light and refreshing, alcohol-free wine spritzer. Crafted with premium de-alcoholised wine and natural botanical extracts, Duchess Spritz is a bubbly delight of…
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IT wasn’t that long ago that wine deliveries were arriving at EPD HQ; so much changes, so quickly and it’s a reminder to be appreciative and not take things for granted. Excuse me while I rearrange my crystals. The goodie box from Lozärn included a bottle of the 2019 Chardonnay, and some…
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ONE of the most popular fast foods after hamburgers and pizzas has to be the hot dog and, in honour of International Hot Dog which is celebrated on Wednesday, July 22, here is the history of this sausage-in-a-bun that has been around for hundreds of years. Historians believe that the origin of…
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WASH your hands, wear the damn mask, and sanitise, sanitise, sanitise. Spray, squirt and spritz that stuff everywhere; it’s sometimes hard to believe the simple science of being clean (and not breathing over others, or – worse – being breathed on) can be so effective in curbing the spread of the…
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SILVER linings have to be found wherever possible, and here is one in the form of a delivery meal from Nobu at One&Only Cape Town. The hotel is still temporarily closed, and after three months of lockdown, Nobu head chef Harold Hurtada and his team are delighted to be back at work, preparing…
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THE hospitality industry is in crisis, there’s no other way to say it, but in the face of such adversity there has been so much encouraging innovation during this damn pandemic. As restaurants fold and close, and others hang on by their fingernails, there are those who are doing what they can to…
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