Slow Food Johannesburg

Slow Food Jo’burg held an educational Ayurvedic cooking demonstration at Miele’s demonstration kitchen in Bryanston on 29 June 2010. Our host for the evening was Ishvara, a yogi, cooking teacher and culinary adventurer with a background in philosophy and comparative religions. Ishvara prepared a simple Ashram style vegetarian meal comprising rice, dhal, chapatti, and so [...]

Slow Food Johannesburg together with members of Slow Food Cape Town had a rare opportunity to go hunting for indigenous Kalahari truffles, also know as !Nabbas on a sheep farm in the Northern Cape. For the lucky few who were able to make the 8-hour trip at short notice it turned out to be an educational [...]

Coffee workshops are a perennial favourite with the members of Slow Food Jo’burg, and our visit to the Green Bean African Coffee Roastery at Casalinga Restaurant in Muldersdrift was no exception. Lee Anderson and Iris McCullum started the roastery in 2007. Both had a passion for good coffee, and they wanted to inspire others to [...]