Creator
Nikita Singh
Nikita is a writer, food stylist, and recipe developer based in Johannesburg. She’s especially interested indigenous food culture, culinary trends, and historical influences on modern cooking. During office hours she works as the head of product development for a national confectionery company.
Heritage foods are on the menu
Local members of the Slow Food movement are working to save traditional ingredients
Spices beyond Cape Malay
Travel and living abroad for nine years inspired Cariema Isaacs to write a new cookbook
A culinary journey across SA
The menu of a new bistro in Johannesburg is a food map of tastes from across the country
Failed au pair’s a pinot protégé
Berene Sauls now wants to add chardonnay to her Tesselaarsdal label — and grow the grapes
A tale of two cultural tastes
Africa and Italy, so similar in so many ways, have shaped a Jo’burg restaurateur
Chefs switch to mini dynamos
The small but mighty microgreens are being grown in urban farms and used in local menus
Sugar and spice and all tastes Kenyan
Nikita Singh writes about the indigenous memory held in food.