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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Meat Market, have generously agreed to supply venison from 3 different antelope for the evening, and we’ll do our utmost to repeat the fun of [...]
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