Jessica has a love for food. She also has a love for writing. After spending three years at a Cordon Bleu cookery school she decided to spread her wings and check out Lon...
Julie is the editor and in-house food stylist at Crush. While she started her career in marketing, her passion for all things food and a love for writing brought her to C...
Robyn is best described as offbeat, yet onbrand. Good at telling bad jokes. Usually heard misquoting lyrics, while dancing in the kitchen. A lover of jazz and all things ...
Internationalist by upbringing, food connoisseur by choice, Katrina is a bite-sized wordsmith with endless culinary curiosity. In between writing, photographing and makin...
Dumi sees himself as a current culture kid, who has a deep affection for fashion, music, flavoured tea and animated series. No matter the time or place, he always has a p...
This is Karl. He loves beer. He also loves fire and food and believes that if you are going to cook something, don’t do it in half measures. He’s a copywriter by day ...
Robyn is a writer, foodie, ceramicist and self-proclaimed connoisseur of Pinot Noir. Past-times include devouring hours of Alison Roman YouTube tutorials and making every...
Illanique is a Cape Town-based food stylist and recipe developer who loves to dabble in a bit of food photography here and there. After spending long hours in busy kitche...
Beer Country consists of brothers-in-law duo Greg Gilowey and Karl Tessendorf. The two were runners-up on the first season of the Ultimate Braai Master TV show and have s...
Tamsyn is currently studying Fine Art at Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT and is completing her Honours in Photography. She has always had an interest in food and on the...
Tina Bester is becoming better known as the Queen of Tarts after her successful baking business and shops. She has also written a string of popular cook books - Tarts, Ja...
Karen has had a passion for wine as far back as she can remember and has happily been working in the industry for just over 10 years. Whilst qualified as a wine judge, th...
Graphic designer by day, brownie baker by night. Devon is most happy either reading a good book by the fire on a winter’s day or in the kitchen baking her heart out and...
Georgia is a lover of food, travel and words. She has a background in online marketing and works as a freelance writer and editor in Cape Town. Her many travel adventures...
This is Greg. He loves to braai. The first time he was handed the tongs was in the Kruger Park at the tender age of seven. His first, (and to date) favourite job, was get...
Callie Maritz is a food-stylist, food-author and restaurant reviewer. He has co-authored a string of successful cook books including titles such as Cakes to Celebrate Li...
Kate is a freelance photographer with a passion for food and portraiture. She has a graphic design and digital marketing background, having studied fine arts, media and c...
Emily is an aspiring content writer with a love for food and a passion for writing. Growing up with a mom who is a chef, she has always been surrounded by delicious food....
James is a digital media maverick, one of the founding members of Slingshot in Dallas, Texas – one of the leading digital media marketing and advertising agencies in th...
The Foodie is David Cope, a bacon-devouring, wine-guzzling freelance writer based in Cape Town. When not posting hedonistic food adventures, hangover cures or simple reci...
Melissa Delport is a Cape Town based foodie. With a passion for all things adventure, Melissa has been fine-tuning her skills in the kitchen and her flair for design by b...
Her blog CookSister! was named as one of the Times Online's top 50 food blogs inthe world and is also a four-time winner of the Best South African Food Blog category in t...
Barbara is one half of the duo that write The Gardening Blog. Barbara's half explores country living is its best. Being a true spirit of the earth, Barbara’s garden is ...
Ilse van der Merwe is a food lover on the move: from a successful career in the music management industry to a vibrant new food personality on tv, Ilse is fast becoming a...
Michael Olivier is a very well-known and respected restauranteur, wine writer, past editor of Crush Online, author and recipient of the Eat Out Lifetime achievement award...
Christiaan Campbell is the Executive Chef at The Werf Restaurant at Boschendal Wine Estate. He is a leader in farm-to-table dining and uses produces from the incredible W...
Jessica is the chef of The Table Restaurant on De Meye Wine Farm, working alongside her husband Luke Grant. The ever-changing weekend menus served from her country kitche...
The young, vibrant, eager-to-teach, Pieter de Jager was introduced to the culinary scene at an early age, as he spent many evenings, while he was at school, cooking in hi...
I am a very passionate, over-enthusiastic, perfectionist chef who lives for cooking. I grew up cooking with my Ouma Violet from the tender age of four, and from there I m...
Sarah trained at Silwood School of Cookery and graduated with the Grand Diplome. She then went on to become an assistant food stylist and worked at Fairlady magazine. Cur...
Brad Ball has gained a sterling reputation as one of Cape Town’s foremost bistro dining specialists.
An award winning chef, he has an impressive track record under his...
Ina Paarman is one of South Africa's most well-known and loved food writers and television personalities. She is the author of many successful cookery books, including Th...
Tania Smit studied at the Cape Town Food Academy and completed her studies in 2016. She started at La Motte early March 2018. She has an intense passion for cake decorati...
Clare started Appetite Catering in Cape Town in 2007, catering for events, celebrations, launches, presentations, cocktails and seafood barbecues and more.
Donna started her successful career as a food writer and stylist for Marie Claire.
In 2001 Donna launched donna hay magazine, a highly acclaimed, top-selling bi-monthly ...
Liz Lowe is a freelance writer, currently based in Bath, UK. She spent many years working in the wine trade, combining some of her favourite interests: eating, drinking a...
SarahGraham is a celebrated South-African based cook, food writer and TV show host. Sarah grew up on a small wildlife conservancy in Zimbabwe, and this instilled in her a...
Michelle Theron is at the helm of the kitchen at Pierneef à La Motte in Franschhoek. The dynamic chef studied at Boland College, Stellenbosch, where she completed her Ho...
Taryne is a distinguished freelance food stylist and cookery writer, and writes monthly contributions for editorials such as Food & Home magazine, Living & Loving...
Real Food, Happy Healthy Children is a LCHF cookbook with recipes that will suit children from toddlers to teenagers. Penned by paediatric dietician Kath Megaw, with Dais...
Renette started cooking when she was 11 and the first thing she ever attempted was duck l'orange. In later years, duck would become the dish she would be renowned for. Re...
Luisa is a Cape-Town based chef, recipe developer and food stylist, although she travels regularly to cook for clients in Europe and the States, which helps her stay on t...
Jaco Goosen is a Sous chef at the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel. He is a keen forager – picking his own nasturtiums, fennel, sorrel, radish flowers, wild garlic and mushro...
23 year old Ming-Cheau Lin is a free lance copy writer and designer. Her food blog, which she started in March 2011, is focused on Taiwanese food, encouraging South Afri...
Craig started his food journey in 1997 at the Cape Grace Hotel and then moved on to the Mount Nelson. He went abroad to gain experience and started at the world-renowned...
Kanya inherited her love of baking from her mother, a maternal aunt and her grandmother who sparked the love of baking in her from a very young age. One of her earliest c...
Chef Reuben Riffel is the owner of three Reuben's restaurants, all based in the Western Cape. They are in Franschoek, at the One & Only in Cape Town, and in Robertson...
Alida Ryder, started her blog Simply Delicious while she was stuck in the everyday-routine of being a very busy mom to twins. Her blog is known for beautiful photography,...
Lynn Bedford-Hall has produced a string of truly brilliant cook books, filled with the most sublime recipes for the South African kitchen. For Lynn it started “under a...
Sarah Wollenschlaeger says she is, "self taught mostly with lots of trial and error. Definitely some hair pulling and late panic when things haven’t worked out the way ...
Cara, is a health blogger, fitness enthusiast, nutrition coach, wholefoods producer, and founder of the Caralishious brand. “I understand the dangers of deprivation, f...
Jade Campbell, RD (SA) completed her Bachelor of Science Degree in Dietetics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Jade is passionate about dietetics and...
Nicky Fitzgerald has cooked in more different places than one can imagine. Campfire at Game Lodges from the Eastern Cape to the Ngorongoro Crater and Tiger camps in India...
An experience working with Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons gave him a wonderful grounding and a fruitful food knowledge base. Tjaart Walraven is now the Dir...
Cape Town born Karen Dudley learned to celebrate diversity. After traveling overseas and working in the food industry she decided to return to Cape Town to start her own ...
Robin Gartrell started her blog to have a place that's hers alone to experiment, document and share recipes and experiences with others who love food. It's a place to lea...
Andy Fenner has been a well-known blogger and contributed with some incredible features for Crush way back in the early days. He has authored a book and owns the success...
When it comes to food, Sophia likes to get down and dirty, she loves good, wholesome home cooking, chunks of bread dipped in juices, melting butter. She loves presentatio...
Carey has 10 years of extensive experience in the food industry. She is a freelance food consultant and has a popular blog called 'Bits of Carey'. Carey has been develop...
Nicky and Nikki are a foodie mom and daughter duo. They create beautiful, wholesome dishes which can easily be served to a big table of family and friends.
Tracy Foulkes is the owner and founder of the very popular and delicious NoMU. Through her dynamism in the food industry she has built up one of the most successful brand...
Anna Montali is the former Food and Deputy Editor of Food And Home Entertaining Magazine. She is a renowned foodie with numerous awards under her belt including several C...
Two silly siblings who have managed to write and style 5 fabulous cooking and baking books, completed work on 200+ tv commercials, countless editorial assignments, strutt...
[spasie] is Cape Town’s first (and only) underground restaurant and private event space offering our guests the opportunity to experience something new, exciting and fr...
James Ramsden is a London-based Yorkshireman. He became well-known for running the Secret Larder supper club. James develops recipes, blogs and also hosts The Kitchen Is...
Nina's Timm career in the food industry took flight when she started her food website. Nina's blog is currently one of South Africa's most read food. She is a food stylis...
Tracy Hawthorne is a freelance writer and editor with more than 30 years of experience in a wide range of fields.
Tracy writes and edits fiction and non-fiction, for b...
Having spent most of his life in Durban practically growing up in the ocean, spear fishing and free driving, Darren gained an appreciation for food flavours and textures ...
Annette Kesler, doyenne of South African food writers, was food editor at Fair Lady magazine for many years.
She is the author of many successful cookbooks such as The...
One half of two silly siblings who have managed to write and style 5 fabulous cooking and baking books, completed work on 200+ tv commercials, countless editorial assignm...
Stefan Marais is the executive chef at Societi Bistro in Cape Town, where he has been at the helm of the kitchen for the last five years. He is supported by an excellent ...
Charlie Lee-Potter is a broadcaster and journalist. She has presented a range of different news programmes for BBC Radio as well as a weekly programme about books. She is...
Jamie Schler is an American freelance writer living between France and Italy, combined her passions for food and writing to create and author Life's a Feast. She has been...
Rudi Liebenberg, executive chef at The Mount Nelson Hotel, decided that he wanted to be a chef because he didn't want to talk to people and 'food doesn't talk back'. In ...
Fishing, hunting and gardening were a big part of my youth; this hugely influenced my decision to pursue the culinary arts. I started working in a kitchen straight after ...
Melissa Chandansing is the owner of Basic Stock in Stellenbosch. Basic Stock is described as your community grocer. It's a Health Deli focusing on organic and natural pro...
Born and raised in the Cape, Chevaun has a tendency to lean towards the finer things in life – fine food, fine weather, fine coffee and most of all fine wine. Taking ad...
Scorpio, RED WINE, Dalmatians, VINO, my men, Mamma Estraordinaria, massive pots of pasta, la famiglia, candle light, designer Handbags, Adult Survivor, Red Lipstick and a...
Pete Goffe-Wood was born in london and classically trained Beverly Hills Hotel in Umhlanga Rocks. He runs popular cooking traing school called Kitchen Cowboys. He has wri...
Westely is the Executive Chef at Towerbosch Earth Kitchen, located at Knorhoek Wine Estate, in Stellenbosch. He is passionate about snout-to-tail cooking, and his feature...
Ryan Shell is the talented Head Chef at Haute Cabriere in Franschhoek.
He learnt the art of the kitchen at a young age at the feet of his aunt, feeding 'the rabble' as s...
Ash Heeger is the chef and owner of Ash restaurant in Cape Town. After crafting her trade in the mean kitchens of London, she has recently returned to South Africa to ope...
Heleen hopes to make your life a little easier with recipes and tips and hopes to inspire people to become as enthusiastic about good food and cooking as she is. She is t...
Sybil Doms is a freelance stylist and chef and has written for several publications. Her services include sensible dining, stylish dining, Sommelier services, domestic tr...
Peter Templehoff is one of South Africa's finest chefs. He has won many awards and has been awarded the title of ‘Relais & Châteaux Grand Chef’ at their annual c...
Sam quit the corporate world a number of years ago to build her dream life around food creativity. She is a professional food stylist, recipe developer and food photograp...
Michael Broughton has opened and operated restaurants all over the country. Starting out with Broughton’s in Johannesburg’s Parkview suburb, moving to Sandton, and th...
At 27, she may be one of the smallest and youngest chefs in Cape Town, but Christi adds her explosive energy to transform any dish into a masterpiece. Christi comes from ...
Phillippa Cheifitz one of the most devoted and honest food writers in the business. She has spent years on magazines and written many cookbooks in her simply yet beautif...
Karate loving, Head Chef Dil Tamang joined the Nobu Cape Town team in July 2013 from Atlantis the Palm. Originally from Nepal, Dil discovered his passion for cooking at t...
Kobus van der Merwe, is the owner and chef behind Oep ve Koep, a restaurant located in Paternoster on the West Coast. The restaurant is famous for its beautiful seafood d...
