When we started seeking out the stories behind our lodges and hotels in Africa and the Indian Ocean, we very quickly began to see the immense impact these properties were having not only on their settings, their destinations, but on the people they employed from […]
Category: Gastronomy
How to Celebrate Christmas in the Sun
Above: North Island Resort, Seychelles When the sun comes out, we follow. Not merely we, the sun lovers, but we, life lovers. Like flowers looking to the light. A whole world opens up to us in summer; the great outdoors and bright city streets are […]
The Waterless Cooking Movement
You might have heard about it from Capetonians on the plane, because it’s all we can talk about. And rightly so. You might have come across the signs in the airport, in your hotel, in the city’s newspapers. That’s the weather for you. It may […]
10 Questions with Mara Plains Camp’s Head Chef
I could see it in his eyes and in something of the intangible. Exuberance, I think the word is. It was as though his spirit was beside itself, overtly ecstatic at getting to inhabit the man it did. The man’s name is Benjamin Maritim and […]
10 Questions with AtholPlace Hotel & Villa’s Executive Chef
I have found that getting to know the chefs behind a meal adds a certain depth to the meal itself. As though acting as another ingredient, enhancing the myriad flavours and scents and revealing the heart of the dish. In the same way that learning […]