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Posted by Jess Spiro on 22 December 2020 Share this story Even if Christmas is looking a little smaller than usual this year, there’s still lots of things to get right. Which is why we’ve called in some of the food big guns to help you with the most common Christmas cooking questions you’ve always wanted answers to. Turkey When it comes to the main event, be it chicken or turkey, our food stylist Keletso Motau has this to say. “Take your chicken out of the fridge ahead of time to allow it to come to room temperature before popping it into the oven. This will allow for a quicker cooking time and more even cooking. I often put the chicken in the fridge the night before, uncovered. This will allow the skin to dry out a bit, giving you a crispier skin once roasted.” While contributing food editor Hannah Lewry’s Christmas menu often features roast pork, she had this to say about roasting the perfect turkey. “Always let your turkey defrost in the fridge ....
The 1920s was a period in America which saw the sale and consumption of liquor rise instead of ceasing, and put organised crime firmly on the map. Destined to repeat the mistakes of the past until lessons are learned, the same thing happened in South Africa during national lockdown which began on 27 March 2020. While some bemoaned not being able to buy alcohol, there was a thriving black market for those in the know. Recalling that now, it’s almost cute how naïve we were. Three weeks? Ag, that’s nothing. We can do it. It feels like life barely existed before March, but it did. Memory does not serve, but thanks to modern technology and saved documents, I can recap those glorious three months from another lifetime. ....
“Now this,” says Nancy Richards, unwrapping a book that’s just landed in her postbox as she sees me off from her Mowbray home, “is an activist.” The book is Jwara! Induna’s Daughter by Joyce Notemba Piliso-Seroke. We had been discussing what an “activist” is. Richards, whose name and voice are familiar to many South Africans, is a freelance journalist and, for more than two decades, presented a woman’s show in its various incarnations on SAfm, as well as presented SAfm Literature for many years. But this is not what qualifies her as one of our Disrupters. It’s her work as the founder of Woman Zone CT, a non-profit organisation she started with a diverse group of women at The Kitchen (the famous, but now lost-to-Covid, restaurant of Karen Dudley) eight years ago. Woman Zone’s mission is to bring together women from across Cape Town to share their stories. ....