Solms Delta Indigenous Garden Visit

Solms Delta Indigenous Garden Visit

Saturday 11 September, 2010 On Saturday 11th September our sister convivium, Slow Food Cape Town, will be visiting Solms Delta wine estate outside Franschhoek to tour their culinary veldkos (indigenous food) garden project. They have kindly invited us to come along. You can view their invitation here. Now, here’s the complicated part. They have also [...]

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Photos: Waterblommetjie Outing (August 2010)

Photos: Waterblommetjie Outing (August 2010)

This weekend we ventured out to Lelieblom Farm in Darling to find out more about waterblommetjies (an indigenous Cape winter delicacy) and to pick some of our own. The full report is still to come, but in the meantime, here are some photos from the day.

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Farm Visit and Waterblommetjie Lunch at Lelieblom Farm, Darling

Farm Visit and Waterblommetjie Lunch at Lelieblom Farm, Darling

*UPDATE: event fully booked* Slow Food Mother City is celebrating the last cozy days of winter with a visit to Lelieblom Farm just outside the West Coast town of Darling to sample waterblommetjies, an indigenous winter delicacy. Waterblommetjies are the flowers of the Cape Hawthorn (Aponogeton distachyos), which grows wild in vleis and on riverbanks [...]

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To the heart of good eating

To the heart of good eating

When Catharina’s started running a Meat-free Mondays menu late last year, some restaurant reviewers thought they’d gone nuts (and lentils). But the initiative (which ties into a global movement) has been a success, and now Catharina’s is once again making a quirky stand by introducing Free-range Fridays. Executive Chef Garth Almazan explains the concept, which [...]

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Encounters Documentary Festival

Encounters Documentary Festival

This year is the 12th Encounters International Documentary Festival. This festival has grown every year, probably due to the fact that they always show great documentaries from South Africa, Africa and around the world. This year is no different and there are some which tie in very well with Slow Food principles. Below is a [...]

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Slow Food: Reconnecting with our food by Dax Villanueva

Catch Slow Food Mother City committee member, Dax at a free Lunchtime Soapbox talk at IDASA next week. He’ll be chatting about Slow Food and how we need to reconnect with our food. We need to be aware of where it comes from and how it was produced so that we can change this system.

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Fungi Foray

Fungi Foray

Father’s Day dawned gloriously with perfect mushrooming weather – a crisp, clear morning after half a week of soaking rains. More than thirty slowfooders of all ages joined us to forage for fungi at the Tokai Arboretum… here’s a review with photos, and a recipe for mushroom soup!

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