Sunday Times Chef School Directory 2021

Attention to detail is in everything. Now is the best time to become a chef. When the world opens up again and everything goes back to ‘normal’, people will want to get out and eat out, to socialise and to experience the niceties of life.

Read More
Introducing Lee-Andre Fortuin - Class of 2020

Lee-Andre Marissa Fortuin, a past pupil of Girls’ High School in Pietermaritzburg, is another of our first-year students. Her teachers chose to celebrate the end of the 2019 school year at Jackie Cameron School of Food & Wine and were delighted to know that this was where Lee-Andre had enrolled – her consumer science teacher, Eline De Jongh, in particular.

Read More
Quest for 100 Core South African Flavours with Anna Trapido

Anna Trapido - Drawing up a list of 100 South African Favours for a food installation at the V&A Waterfront’s Makers Landing, one hundred iconic edible items sounds like a lot, but as the person tasked with gathering opinions I can confirm that this number is nowhere near enough.

Read More
Introducing Phumla Zakwe - Class of 2020

This year has flown – and yet it hasn’t. 2020 will go down as months of instability as we question how, why, what, where, when… The festive season, however, is upon us and I always look forward to this time because I meet aspiring young chefs who aim to make their respective mark in the culinary industry.

Read More