Slow Food Mother City

Slow Food Mother City loved Taste of Cape Town, a five-day celebration of cuisine in a festive atmosphere on the Rhodes High School fields in Mowbray. Quite a few of the chefs used local ingredients and techniques.

Slow Food Mother City will be hosting an introduction to the pleasures of preserving with Oded Schwartz on 10 April. Join us for two hours of preserving history, theory, skills and tips, shared in a convivial atmosphere in Oded’s own kitchen. We’ll be tasting Oded’s preserves and pickles, and washing them down with Jack Black beer.

Remember that old Farmer Brown ad: ‘They taste so good, ’cause they eat so good’? It turns out that a diet of grubs, grass, grain, fresh air and sunshine makes the tastiest chickens of all. On 6 March 2010 a group of Slow Fooders visited Spier to learn more about their biodynamic farming methods. In [...]

Those bubbly gourmets-about-town John and Lynne Ford from Sea Point’s invaluable Main Ingredient were at our &Union beer tasting and wrote up about it in their weekly newsletter. “Yesterday evening, we attended a Slow Food function at & Union Beer Saloon/Charcuterie in Riebeeck Square off Bree Street, in the basement of the old St Stephen’s [...]

Slow Food Mother City’s ‘soft launch’ at Kwalapa on 10 December was one of over 1000 events in 120 countries celebrating Slow Food’s Terra Madre (Mother Earth) Day. More than 50 people interested in Cape Town’s new convivium gathered under the huge New Zealand Christmas tree growing in the heart of Kwalapa, a new organic shop and café at the Montebello Centre in Newlands.