• Motivated Masterchef SA finalist Shannon Smuts gets stuck into a healthy-driven passion project, and expounds on life BM (before Masterchef) and AM (after Masterchef). I am super open-minded about food and have respectfully eaten everything ever offered to me: from smelly seaweed and crocodile to rat… the list is endless and bizarre. I try to remember that something that’s taboo for me is actually a staple in other countries. But I will admit I really had to wrap my head around the half of a scorpion I ate in Bangkok – I can say unequivocally that I won’t be doing…

    True to the standard French culinary practice, plum tarte tatin is baked upside-down so that the fruit becomes caramelised in a sinfully delicious combination of butter and sugar.…

    Cape Town-based treasure hunter and creator, Keri Muller’s Mama Africa piece, comprising folded paper cuts and old books, speaks to a quieter time in our lives, before the noise and onset of modern modes of communication. Served in a 1700s teacup salvaged from Dom’s grandmother’s house, an image is conjured up of Mama Africa sipping iced tea in the warm Jozi sun. An innovative drink that is both simple and stylish, like Keri’s art piece, the fresh peaches and rooibos tea-inspired cocktail is uniquely South African and very moreish. You have been warned! Recipe by Domenico de Lorenzo & Dino…