View this video clip for a step-by-step guide showing you how to make your own chocolate truffles at home. Also, Dimo Simatos, head of Lindt's Chocolate Studio provides some nifty tips for when working with chocolate.
In the spirit of allowing the ingredients to dictate the dish, Hartford House’s Jackie Cameron prepares a hearty meal to accompany an equally hearty wine.
Despite long hours in Terroir’s restaurant kitchen, Michael Broughton loves cooking at home. Fancy plates might make way for comforting pasta and honeyed cake, but there is no skimping on ingredients and flavours.
Whether your wine collection is stored in a state-of-the-art cellar or simply in a few racks under a flight of stairs, you’ll find that you can learn from the advice of wine authority Christine Rudman who has two unique home cellars.
At roughly R25 000 for one kilogram, truffles are a true delicacy that few are able to afford. Shrouded in mystery since the Middle Ages when it was believed that truffles were a manifestation of the devil, today they are gathered with the assistance of a sniffer pig or dog that can detect their presence, growing spontaneously where the fungal spores encounter the rootlets of an oak tree.
If you’re a home baker, you’ll know that the quality of flour used is directly related to the outcome of your pizza base, bread or whatever it is that emits those heavenly just-baked aromas from your oven.
Vodka is Russia's gift to the world. Over centuries they have perfected the art and are happy to share it. Now South Africans can also enjoy Russian Standard Vodka, just recently launched in our
Waterkloof Wine Estate consider the 2009 harvest one to remember. Out of this harvest they created the Circumstance trio: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah. Read more here...
Google Street View first became popular among locals and foreigners during the World Cup 2010. Now South Africa's beautiful wine farms are among the first in the world to be featured on this unique
Several South African wines are finding themselves amongst exulted company in Wine Advocate’s recently published listing of The Most Memorable Wines of 2011...