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Cooking 101: A beginner’s journey to delicious meals and kitchen confidence

In a world where many meticulously monitor their partner’s Instagram following but seldom scrutinize what’s actually in their takeout, it’s almost comical how little thought we…

Pairing: Bill Lumsden, a director at Glenmorangie Company in Scotland, advises dark chocolate with whisky, an excellent choice for the Manjari dark chocolate tart. Photos: Supplied & Carol Sachs

The not so sober do’s and don’ts of whisky and food

One of the world’s most awarded distillers gives tips on pairing Scotland’s most famous drink with food and music

The condemnation of Italy

Magnificent cook book shows you how to eat a country — the modern way

Former Eskom chief executive André de Ruyter.

Q&A Sessions: ‘I cannot fix Eskom. But we can fix this’ — André de Ruyter

Meet the father, the cook and the chief executive of Eskom, who wakes up at 3am and writes speeches. André de Ruyter speaks to Athandiwe Saba about the future of the power…

The Truro docked in South Africa 160 years ago. (Photo: Claude Pavard)

Indians in South Africa, a historical excerpt

In the book, The Indian Africans, academic Kiru Naidoo explores the society of colonial Natal in the late 1800s to early 1900

The WHO and the United Nations (UN) celebrated World Food Safety Day on 7 June, with the 2022 theme, “Safer Food, Better Health”.

Our relationship with food locked down

The pandemic could mean collective re-evaluation of healthy and cost-effective eating and also highlights how companies need to be even more connected to the consumer

Food, and its fusion into new communities, has always reinforced the dynamic nature of society and the idea that civilisation’s greatest achievements have emerged from movement. (AFP)

What I miss most about home: My mom’s cassava leaves

A journalist from Sierra Leone has to teach himself to cook during lockdown in Johannesburg

Heather Van Harte’s Observatory Night Market will no longer be running due to COVID-19 putting her under huge finacial pressure, Cape Town.  (David Harrison)

Covid-19 and the food industry: ‘I had a wobble last week, I was gatvol’

Heather Van Harte, who runs a small catering business, is changing her cooking habits during the lockdown, and has plans to start a food garden

With there being no takeaways available, the writer has been using her time under lockdown to reestablish her relationship with cooking. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Look, mama, I’m cooking

Zaza Hlalethwa tries out her mom’s recipes during the lockdown, and finds her own place in the kitchen

Elisha Madzivadondo grows microgreens and sprouts in a small urban garden in Cape Town. (David Harrison/M&G)

Chefs switch to mini dynamos

The small but mighty microgreens are being grown in urban farms and used in local menus

‘They say: ‘No, just make us the beef and the spinach and the pap.’ But I say: No, you have to get some veggies also.’ (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Slice of life: I cook for men looking for jobs

‘I prefer to cook for these people for free than to sell the food even. I enjoy it because we use the big, big pots’

Western Cape Education MEC Debbie Schäfer.

Slice of Life: ‘Cooking has helped heal me’

‘Other people want to cook for money or just to pass time or just for the sake of cooking’

IBM cooks up thought for food

Watson, the technology company’s cognitive showpiece, is bringing artificial intelligence into the kitchen by conjuring up recipes.

Book a date with a creative cook

Yotam Ottolenghi’s "Plenty More" is an irresistible invitation to get down and dirty in the kitchen, writes Matthew Burbidge.

Supper club pot luck – bon appetit

Vicky Baker tries some home cooking in Barcelona courtesy of a website that puts a fresh spin on supper clubs.

Coelacanth Enviro Club developed guidelines on sustainable and efficient cooking practices that can help all households.

Young designer groups

The Young Designers: Groups Award is for school-goers with a creative idea, programme, design or prototype that tackles the efficient use of energy.

Nomu: Spicers play their cards right

A local company has turned a page on the way we struggle to keep our recipes free from the mix.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Baking new life into the original Oreo

Heidi Dodd bakes the real thing — a sandwich of two slightly chewy chocolate biscuits made with cocoa and sugar and a real buttercream filling.

The El Bulli of Yeoville

Sanza Sandile is at the crossroads of African fusion — and he wants everyone to taste what he is cooking.

Sunfire Solutions has empowered people to show members of their community how using solar energy to cook can drastically cut their electricity costs.

‘Saving the world one meal at a time’

Sunfire Solutions has empowered people to show members of their community how using solar energy to cook can drastically cut their electricity costs.