From Lanckorona with love
I think of myself as a city girl. Drop me, alone, into Warsawa, San Francisco, Paris and I feel curious, happy and alive. So what was it about Lanckorona, a country hamlet with angels high on a hill near Krakow in Poland, that instantly grabbed me?
Freewheeling in Malawi: a bike, my daughter and me
Bicycles, backpacks, a back-up van and a 14-year-old. What to do when you’re the mom and you’ve never ridden a bicycle except into a bush? You bite the bullet. Knowing that for kids, an adventure in an unfamiliar place is an education. It gives a vision of different traditions, cultures and lifestyle. It also teaches obvious lessons in history and geography. Not to mention resilience. Yours as well and theirs.
Michelin-star Master Class Durban-style
When Alsace chef, Michel Husser, joined Alliance Française’s Sarah M’bodji in Durban, it was to share know-how gleaned from his 90-year Michelin-star roots with trainee culinary students. The city’s flavour profile hit a new high, writes Wanda Hennig.
NSRI: Be Safe and Found
Safe and Sound: Safe and Found. The nautical play on words that greeted our UKZN alumnus group at the Durban chapter of the NSRI, one of the most inspiring non-profit volunteer organisations in South Africa.
Bee Nice: here’s the buzz
Did you know that one-third of the fruit and veggies we eat are pollinated by bees? Honeybees and non-honey producers. And they are in jeopardy.
Retreating to flavour and mindfulness
The Buddhist Retreat Center a couple of hours by car from Durban in rural South Africa is a haven of tranquility and beauty where mindfulness and kitchen magic connect in a vast, poverty-stricken, harshly beautiful landscape.
Why Vanessa’s birds take the plate
Field to table, nose to tail. We journey to the middle of nowhere to meet the ebullient, down-to-earth, hands-on farmer who produces her poultry, from […]
Loretta’s Coffee ‘Xpressos’ Victoria Falls
Aromatic Zimbabwean coffee, elephants, buffalo, hippos, warthogs and the legendary Victoria Falls flavour Loretta Gomwe’s coffee success story. Imagine. You park your vehicle along the […]
Wakkerstroom: dorpie of surprises and delights
A French Canadian lured by a Canada Dry sign, a cheesemaker taught by a priest, a one-time diplomat with a bistro that hit the Top […]
Bunny chow love, Durban’s gift to the world
There’s no debate. Durban is the ancestral home of the bunny chow, writes Wanda Hennig. And a bunny is a bunny, not a kota. So […]