It was go, go, go for SA’s own Michelin man when he was recently in Cape Town for the Good Food & Wine Show. That’s why TASTE was stoked to tag along to the Olive Branch Deli where he stocked up on homegrown goodies for Restaurant JAN.
You’ve just come from visiting your folks on their farm in Mpumalanga. What did you eat?
We braaied every evening. Also, my Ouma Hessie knows that every time I visit she has to make her green beans, so she made that: beans with cream and white pepper. I just wanted to eat beef during this trip, good South African beef. France’s beef doesn’t compare, and it’s really expensive. What else … we ate preserved guavas with Ideal milk. Just lekker plaaskos. Nothing fancy.
You recently got married. Did you do the menu?
No, Maranda Engelbrecht did. She sent it through, I made some tweaks, but I just felt that this is the one day I’m gonna stand back and drink Champagne. The highlight was definitely the suckling spit-roasted pigs with pomegranates in their mouths. She served it with a kapokbos-and-apple sauce, the waiters carried them around the tables and carved as they went.
This story is from the July 2017 edition of Woolworths TASTE.
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