Due to popular demand, Slow Food Joburg will be hosting a second seasonal venison tasting evening on Wednesday 20 July 2011. Our Slow Food member-hunter, and our sponsor butcher, Braeside ...
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Agricultural Research Centre Visit & Picnic – Sun 5th Feb
Mike Crewe-Brown has arranged for us to visit the Agricultural Reseach Council’s Vegetable Institute which conducts research on commercial and indigenous vegetables such as amaranthus, cassava, plectranthus, Zulu round potato, pigeon peas, cowpeas and bambara. The institute was established in 1949 on Roodeplaat farm, about 25km north-east of central Pretoria. The farm covers about 4 [...]
Origins of South African Wine Styles
Our former Leader and wine (and bread) expert, Andrew Adrian, has developed a series of themed wine tastings on the Origins of South African Wine Styles. The first time I attended one of his wine evenings at the AECI Wine Club, Andrew spoke about this topic and what I learned has remained with me over [...]
Venison Tasting Reportback
Winter is venison season in South Africa and in Johannesburg it is probably our quintesential local food. Before gold was discovered in 1876, before farmers started building houses and dividing up the land in the 1830s, before traders and explorers wandered through the area, there were herds of wild antelope and flocks of wild birds [...]




