Latest articles on Cooking

Our relationship with food locked down

Coronavirus Becky Opdyke - 25 Jul 2020

The pandemic could mean collective re-evaluation of healthy and cost-effective eating and also highlights how companies need to be even more connected to the consumer

What I miss most about home: My mom’s cassava leaves

Africa Abdul S Brima - 10 May 2020

A journalist from Sierra Leone has to teach himself to cook during lockdown in Johannesburg

Covid-19 and the food industry: ‘I had a wobble last week, I was gatvol’

Article Kwanele Sosibo & Lester Kiewit - 29 Apr 2020

Heather Van Harte, who runs a small catering business, is changing her cooking habits during the lockdown, and has plans to start a food garden

Look, mama, I’m cooking

Article Zaza Hlalethwa - 28 Apr 2020

Zaza Hlalethwa tries out her mom’s recipes during the lockdown, and finds her own place in the kitchen

Chefs switch to mini dynamos

Article Nikita Singh - 1 Feb 2019

The small but mighty microgreens are being grown in urban farms and used in local menus

Slice of life: I cook for men looking for jobs

Article Sarah Smit - 27 Jul 2018

'I prefer to cook for these people for free than to sell the food even. I enjoy it because we use the big, big pots'

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Slice of Life: ‘Cooking has helped heal me’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 26 Apr 2018

'Other people want to cook for money or just to pass time or just for the sake of cooking'

IBM cooks up thought for food

Article bogdan TagDiv - 11 Dec 2014

Watson, the technology company's cognitive showpiece, is bringing artificial intelligence into the kitchen by conjuring up recipes.

Book a date with a creative cook

Article bogdan TagDiv - 10 Oct 2014

Yotam Ottolenghi's "Plenty More" is an irresistible invitation to get down and dirty in the kitchen, writes Matthew Burbidge.

Supper club pot luck – bon appetit

Article bogdan TagDiv - 24 Jul 2014

Vicky Baker tries some home cooking in Barcelona courtesy of a website that puts a fresh spin on supper clubs.

Young designer groups

Article Advertising Supplement - 6 Dec 2013

The Young Designers: Groups Award is for school-goers with a creative idea, programme, design or prototype that tackles the efficient use of energy.

Nomu: Spicers play their cards right

Article bogdan TagDiv - 7 Jun 2013

A local company has turned a page on the way we struggle to keep our recipes free from the mix.

Baking new life into the original Oreo

Article Barbara Ludman - 12 Apr 2013

Heidi Dodd bakes the real thing — a sandwich of two slightly chewy chocolate biscuits made with cocoa and sugar and a real buttercream filling.

The El Bulli of Yeoville

Article bogdan TagDiv - 15 Feb 2013

Sanza Sandile is at the crossroads of African fusion — and he wants everyone to taste what he is cooking.

‘Saving the world one meal at a time’

Videos Staff Reporter - 29 Jan 2013

Sunfire Solutions has empowered people to show members of their community how using solar energy to cook can drastically cut their electricity costs.

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