It is official. Professional dietitian and nutrition titles in South Africa are changing. From 2023, students who enrol for a nutrition or dietetics degree will graduate with a dietitian-nutritionist title. In the meantime, the title and scope of those registered as dietitians or nutritionists with the Health Professions Council of […]
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My sister, aunt and I, all Red Hanger sale veterans, went Black Friday shopping last year. South Africans of a certain age will remember the infamous Red Hanger Sale, an end-of-year sale that Edgars, a local high street store used to run yearly. That’s where we cut our teeth. Any […]
Are we going to get along? I don’t know but I bet it all depends on how you feel about Atchar. Me? I have strong feelings, the intensity of which is fuelled by nothing more scientific than the purest love. If it was up to me this beloved national condiment […]
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit”. Edward Abbey These words come to mind when you read about the barely habitable Zoo City, the setting of Lauren Beukes’ book. Gritty and futuristic, there is danger lurking in every corner. Our resourceful heroine, Zinzi December is […]
A lifetime ago now, halfway into my budget European travelling tour, I found myself sitting on a bench outside a fast food outlet in Vienna early on a humid summer morning. The lure of a 99 cents breakfast had proved too tempting on a tight budget. The city map was […]
A library card is the perfect gift. The object of my romantic interest once asked me for one word to describe myself. Bookworm was the obvious choice.
I learnt my first lesson on matters of the heart early in life. It’s impossible to know exactly how old I was when I learnt how to cook heart meat but I clearly remember my uncle explaining each step patiently and carefully as if this was the most important lesson […]
In the early days of the pandemic, when our collective obsessive cooking was starting to look like a perverse way of dying slowly, I posted a dish of cabbage rolls on Instagram. Pre filter, the shot was in poor light. Full of shadows. The caption was simple, if not deprecating, […]
Sustainability is on my mind. A sense of disquiet took me back to a time I spent with focus groups of families who had chosen to eat in a socially conscious way about two years ago. It was coming across the online post by NKWO, an Abuja-based sustainable fashion design […]