• For the first time in Johannesburg, comic genius, Chris Forrest, and celebrity chef, Pete Goffe-Wood, scrumptiously blend comedy and cooking together into the ‘Top Gear’ of cooking shows.  Don’t Burn Your Sausage is an ingenious live show that is deliciously funny and rather ‘whisk-qué and takes place from the 22nd to the 24th September at the Red Roman Shed at Emperors Palace. The pair charmingly demonstrate how food and sex are delectably intertwined with this refreshingly hilarious new show.  The show promises to be an absolute hit for both food- and comedy-lovers alike. Forrest and Goffe-Wood prepare the ultimate seductive…

    Local pastry Queen, Carmen Kobald has joined Chef James Diack’s team and is now sharing her love of pastry and decadent dessert creations with sweet-toothed patrons in one of Johannesburg’s most-loved bistros, Coobs in Parkhurst. “Pastry has got this elegance about it,” Carmen explains. “You can do so many things with it, and there’s something about a Coobs Lemon Meringue that always makes people smile.” Not only does Carmen make all the desserts at Coobs, but she also makes all the daily breads, butters, cheese boards, any breads for the starters, and she has now started working on the pass.…

    Discover what makes fine countryfare and slow-crafted wine so special when you book a seat at this year’s Pop Up Lunches, featuring the Stellenbosch wine route of Bottelary Hills and celebrated, Scotland-born chef George Jardine. Part of a trio of events, it will be Kaapzicht Wine Estate’s turn to play host on Sunday, 27 August. Together with complimentary sweeping views of the hills and Table Mountain, the lunch costs R550 per person and includes a wine tasting prior to the three-course, wine-paired feast. Each guest will leave with a bottle of Bottelary Hills wine to take home and enjoy with…

    Madame Lily Bollinger – one of the great ladies of Champagne On 10 November 1923, Jacques Bollinger, the grandson of Joseph Jacob – better known as Jacques Bollinger, cofounder of the House a century earlier – married Elisabeth Law de Lauriston-Boubers, a descendent of John Law de Lauriston, the Scottish adventurer, banker and economist, who co-founded the Compagnie des Indes. When she married Jacques, Elisabeth (Lily) embraced, with verve and passion, Champagne and the vineyard. In 1941, when her husband died without an heir, the young 42-year-old widow took up the reins without hesitation. Known as “Mrs Jacques” to the…