DON’T MISS! CAFÉ ROUX AT NIGHT IS RED HOT

Bernadette Le Roux tell us about the Café Roux
and introduces the head chef and brasserie menu

“The weather influences what I eat,” says Julian Gabriel “and I allow the menu to speak to me. I love a good ceviche of farmed cob or salmon gravlax with a balance of sweet and salt and hints of lemon. Rack of lamb or lamb saddle is always a winner, and a course is not complete without excellently matured cheese and homemade quince chutney.” 

ON THE TABLE! DINING WITH INA

Recipes by Ina Paarman

Hilary Prendini Toffoli joined South Africa’s own spice girl when she invited some of the members of her team to a candlelit dinner in her Constantia home. 

SEE! OUT TO LUNCH AT THE ROYAL MALEWANE

Award winning Oldenburg Wines in company
with the Lowveld Chaîne des Rôtisseurs

John Jackson, General Manager of the Royal Malewane, is a man for all seasons with a grand reputation as one of South Africa’s fine chefs. To suit the occasion John Jackson and Executive Chef Nathan Macke designed the exquisite and perfectly balanced inviting menu to complement Oldenburg Vineyards’ subtle and captivating wines. 

OUT TO LUNCH! RECIPES TO GRACE THE OCCASION

At the Royal Malewane

Royal Malewane and Oldenburg Wines are a brilliant duo at an elegant lunch for the Lowveld Chaîne des Rôtisseurs in Mpumalanga. One of the world’s most enviable and sublime safari lodges, the Royal Malewane is situated on the fringes of the Kruger National Park, South Africa’s premier wildlife destination. 

BOOKS FOR COOKS! MAKE * GIVE * SELL

With Callie Maritz & Mari-Louis Guy
Everything you could possibly make for any market, ever!

‘Make * Give * Sell’ is terrific fun and perfect for all those that are involved in tuckshops, fêtes, bazaars, markets and any other activity where what you can lovingly produce can be sold. Callie and Mari-Louis come up with the most delicious treats perfect for the Easter break. We have chosen their flapjacks and the Croques Madame et Monsieur for breakfast, and for those that are very serious about chocolate, enjoy their chocolate squares with caramel and pecans! 

SEE! HONG KONG!

Stylish, tantalising and exuding energy,
exciting Hong Kong is a blaze of colour and light!

Hong Kong is a many layered mysterious experience and no matter how many times you visit there is always something new and fascinating to intrigue you. 

BOOKS FOR COOKS! MasterChef South Africa

THE COOKBOOK!

The South African MasterChef series is undoubtedly one of the most professional and superbly orchestrated of any food related television series that has appeared on our screens. A competition that has been acclaimed by foodie aficionados throughout South Africa. Following this triumph Human & Rousseau have put together the definitive book, MasterChef South Africa The Cookbook, and given us the opportunity to quietly meet the personalities involved and peruse their recipes and hopefully prepare them.   

SEE! OUT TO LUNCH

Lion Sands hosted an alfresco Chaîne des Rôtisseurs lunch party recently. Winemaker Frank Meaker of Bovlei Cellar, now part of Wellington Wines, flew in for the lunch and presented their fine wines with great aplomb. 

TRAVEL  & CULTURE! ISTANBUL: MAGIC CARPET RIDE TO AN EXOTIC MEDITERANEAN CITY - AND MANY TURKISH DELIGHTS

By Elizabeth Handley

PART ONE

My introduction to Istanbul began with a marvelous aerial view of the Bosporus Straits, and the Old and New sections of the city bisected by a long narrow channel romantically known as the Golden Horn. It was immediately apparent that this eastern corner of the Mediterranean Sea is as bustling a waterway today as it has been for thousands of years. But now, instead of quinqueremes, dhows and slave ships plying this famous passageway which links the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, it is crowded with tankers and container ships, and ferries carrying both locals and tourists to and from the European and Asian sides of Turkey. 

TRAVEL  & CULTURE! ISTANBUL: MAGIC CARPET RIDE TO AN EXOTIC MEDITERANEAN CITY - AND MANY TURKISH DELIGHTS

By Elizabeth Handley

PART TWO

The next day we set out with our friends to one of the next “Top Ten” items on the itinerary – the Topkapi Palace. This Palace was built by Mehmet II as his main residence soon after his conquest of the city in 1453, between 1459 and1465. The Palace is a series of pavilions set around four large courtyards – a stone version of the tented encampments from which the nomadic Ottomans had emerged. Initially it served as a seat of government, and housed a school in which civil servants and soldiers were trained. But during the 18th century the government was moved to the Sublime Porte. Sultan Abdul Mecit I abandoned the Palace in 1853 in favour of Dolmabahçe Palace on the Bosphorus, and in 1924 Topkapi was opened to the public as a museum.