“Some guy said to me: Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n’ roll? I said: You’d better check with Mick Jagger.” ― Cher As time passes on, it is my hope that I, like Cher, like Mick, will never be too old to sing […]
Category: Gastronomy
A Good Year For Delaire Graff Estate
“‘Wine is sunlight… held together by water.’ The poetic wisdom of the Italian physicist, philosopher and stargazer… Galileo Galilei. It all begins with the soil… the vine, the grape. The smell of the vineyard. Like inhaling birth. It awakens some… ancestral… some… primordial – Anyway, some deeply imprinted… and probably subconscious place… in my soul.” – Bottle […]
10 Questions With Morukuru Family’s Chef, Joyce Mmutlane
“Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.” ― Art Buchwald At Morukuru Family in Madikwe, dinner is as much the evening as breakfast is the morning and lunch the afternoon. They are a part of the […]
For the Love of the Terrace
The minute the sun begins to dip, Capetonians go in search of the terrace. The same has been said about Paris, but the preferred time in the City of Lights is when the sun starts to show its face. The terrace is part of the art de vivre […]
The Only Relais & Châteaux Restaurant At Sea
Clouds, Champagne & Celeriac “What do you love most about being at sea?” I ask the seasoned Silversea traveller seated beside me. We’re at a special luncheon hosted by Relais & Châteaux, in the dining room of the La Champagne restaurant aboard the Silver Cloud – the only […]