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.
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 […]
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 […]
Slow and sensual: Romancing the pizza
Pizza. Fast food? How about when you have a Hilton-based pizzaiolo — Mark Mattinson — who spends 72 hours prepping each batch of dough? When […]
Sunsets, mermaids and Durbanism in Umhlanga
If you were to count them, I’d wager that the number of eateries at Umhlanga — inside the malls, along the streets, strips and terraces, […]
The miracle of Bonakude: growing food, growing people
When Professor Mvuselelo “Mvu” Ngcoya was growing up in Phatheni, a long-neglected, impoverished rural community not far from the KwaZulu-Natal town of Richmond, there was […]
Our Insider’s Guide: South Africa’s Durban
Durban, South Africa’s subtropical Indian Ocean port and resort city, is eccentric. Unexpected and curious. And weirdly wondrous. It’s a city that can thwack the […]