Slow Food Johannesburg

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 [...]

Slow Food Johannesburg’s Annual General Meeting was held at the Sing Fei restaurant in Craighall Park in May. Apart from Robyn who has moved to Australia, the same committee have agreed to stay on: Tim Truluck (Leader), Lekha Amod (Treasurer), Liz Pringle (Secretary), Caroline Whitehead (Membership), Howard Shenker (Local Foods), Andrew Adrian, Dennis Conway, Nanette [...]

The Slow Food Johannesburg Wild Boar weekend was the culmination of a food journey begun 8 months earlier to follow 2 piglets, from a herd of free range European wild boars, from birth to slaughter. Eighteen Slow Fooders attended the Wild Boar weekend at the end of November. It should ideally have been held in [...]