Peter Veldsman News Today

In a Karoo town huddled between two ancient mountains, a modest chef happy to live the small-town life is cooking the perfect lamb chop.

Charlize Theron landed herself in hot water in 2022 with her rash comments about the Afrikaans language on an American podcast. But guess who had the last word…

Reading about the death of Peter Veldsman, the focus is on his status as a South African food icon, arguably the greatest since Louis Leipoldt. This acclaim from those in the culinary know is justified, but for me he was simply a friend whose presence was taken for granted in an almost one-of-t...

Christians eat fish on Good Friday. But in Cape Town the fish is almost always smothered in a sweet curried sauce – and

I grew up in the Sixties eating Sole Meunière, which is a brown butter sauce to which lemon and parsley have been added.

Strauss & Co is pleased to announce advance details of its live virtual sales in Johannesburg on 15–17 May 2022, which will include an evening session entirely devoted to Surrealism and its influence on South African art and artists.

Today, the whole world knows about our classic and comforting South African dessert, malva pudding. Many celebrity chefs and notable food bloggers from elsewhere in the world have had a go at it, and it features on the menus of some very fine restaurants, even in Manhattan. But until the second...

It was the dish that ignited Julia Child’s exemplary career as a television chef. It’s as simple as it is perfect. And it’s so good that there really is no point in cooking sole any other way.

  ‘The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194 – at Oran. Everyone agreed that, considering their somewhat extraordinary character, they were out of place there. For its ordinariness is what strikes one first about the town of Oran, which is merely a large French port on the Algerian coast ….’ And so begins Albert Camus’ The Plague. God, who would have thought…? What happened to the plain old ordinary? But hey, here we are. Not that I want to sound bleak, gloomy...