• Down-to-earth food blogger Sarah Graham’s first cookbook bitten – released last year – has blossomed into a TV show, now airing on SABC 3. Following a philosophy of…

    Kim Shaw, F&HE copy editor, reminisces about veggie patches and the perfect cakeAll this gorgeous Joburg weather and spring planning has got me thinking about what to plant and that got me remembering my dad’s incredible veg garden in Scotland. He was a mad gardener, but not for flowers and shrubs – for vegetables. He planted everything – different types of lettuce, potatoes, radishes that Rapunzel would have given her locks for, carrots, beetroot and the sweetest of peas. Mrs Crayton next door had one lone rhubarb bush, but it was lush – enough for all the kids in the…

    Print Recipe Victoria sponge Ingredients 200g castor sugar 200g butter, soft 4 eggs, beaten 200g self-raising flour 5ml (1 tsp) baking powder 30ml (2 tbsp) milk good quality strawberry jam fresh cream icing sugar, to dust Instructions 1 Preheat oven to 190°C. Grease 2 x 20cm cake tins or spray with cooking spray. 2 Beat