Slow Food Mother City

Dear Slow Food enthusiasts, On Saturday 11 June 2011, Slow Food Mother City will be visiting the Green Point Park & Biodiversity Garden. The Biodiversity Showcase Garden is situated in the new Green Point Park in Cape Town. It features over 300 local Cape plant species, animal sculptures, interactive displays, demonstration gardens, a Khoikhoi display [...]

**UPDATE: Event postponed to Sunday 27 March 2011 (nature isn’t playing along, and there are no chestnuts to be gathered!).  The event is already fully booked, but if you’d like to join the waiting list, please email events@slowfoodmothercity.co.za** On Sunday, 13 March 2011 27 March 2011, we will be visiting beautiful Glendirk Farm, one of [...]

For our first event for the year we are visiting Jorgensen’s Distillery in Wellington. Dawn and Roger Jorgensen hand make a range of high quality spirits with love and passion, including brandy, vodka, limoncello and absinthe. By sourcing the finest quality raw materials, and using herbs that they grow in their own garden, they ensure [...]

Photos taken during our impromptu visit to the ‘Garden of Elgin’, a specialty food garden at Paul Cluver Estate, Elgin.

This is a brief notice to let Slow Food members and enthusiasts know that a few of us will be visiting the Paul Cluver ‘Garden of Elgin’ tomorrow morning (Tuesday 11 January 2011), and we invite anyone interested to come along.

African Relish (in the Karoo town of Prince Albert) is hosting a weekend course with Oded Schwartz, the master of preserving. We visited Oded’s Kitchen back in April, and learnt the basics, but this course will give budding preservers out there quite a bit more detail!

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 [...]