EXQUISITE VENICE

When Paula Plit recently visited Venice with her husband, Wayne, on their honeymoon, she was overwhelmed with the beauty of this exquisite city, understandable because Venice inspires superlatives. Beguiling and unrivalled, Venice remains an unvanquished star.

SEE! SUMPTUOUS

Food from the heart of France to the Cape

By Marlene van der Westhuizen

In ‘Sumptuous’ Marlene van der Westhuizen continues the journey that she began in her first book, ‘Delectable’, exploring what she has christened ‘brasserie luxe’. "Simple food," says Marlene, "that tastes as good as it looks!" Together with photographer Gerda Genis, Marlene has created a visual feast reflecting her strong passion for good food with deep flavours. 

EGGS À LA CARTE

With’Prickly Pears & Pomegranates’

Bernadette le Roux and Marianne Palmer’s book, ‘Prickly Pears & Pomegranates’, offers a warm and intimate look at a way of life and a style of eating in the arid Karoo. An area always at the mercy of extremes, providing Marianne Palmer with an unlikely canvas on which to create the feasts she ultimately prepared. Cranemere cooks take a fresh look at eggs served in the most delicious ways!

HONEYMOONS

AUTUMN IDYLL AT THE PALACE

Serene, joyous, supremely carefree days. Spend them together beside the sea, waterski on azure waters, canter along the beach, take wonderful walks deep in the forest, sip a glass of red wine warmed by the fire. Honeymoon forever.  

Q&A with Leslie Back - Part Two

With Leslie Back

Puzzled, mystified and driven to distraction? What does ‘Al dente’ mean? Is the term ’slow food’ anything like fast food? Leslie Back ha the answer to these vital questions in the second of her two part series.

OLIVE OIL

By Leslie Back

Leslie Back takes SHOWCOOK on an intriguing journey from olive to oil.
Today, there is a positive passion for cooking with olive oil. This aromatic ingredient has long transformed and enhanced the simple dishes of the Mediterranean. Cooks worldwide, who have never developed the taste for olive oil, are now enjoying the rich smooth fruitiness of this unique oil.

NEW! PRICKLY PEARS & POMEGRANATES

Local, organic and seasonal food from the Plains of the Camdeboo

 

 

Bernadette le Roux and Marianne Palmer’s book, ‘Prickly Pears & Pomegranates’ oozes charm, brought to life from the Plains of Camdeboo in the Great Karoo. It is the women of Cranemere Farm, everyone of them a great cook in her own right, who brought food influences to the Karoo from around the globe. 

 

AT HOME IN CHARROUX

With Marlene van der Westhuizen

What Marlene is offering at beautiful Charroux, set in the rugged Auvergne region deep in the heart of Bourbonais near Vichy, is more than simply a cookery course rather a miniature taste of France in a country devoted to all things culinary.

SEE! COLOUR IN YOUR DIET

By Viktoras Kulvinskas

How colour provides food for thought and a blue print for new age eating. We are looking at what stimulates, builds, heals, give you energy, joy, gaiety and warmth as well as vital cleansing.