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Corona Virus: Lockdown Journey Journal, Day 12 of Level 4, 12 May 2020.

 

Tuesday 12 May 2020, Day 12 of Level 4, after 35 days of Level 5 Lockdown 😷

Corona Gratitude 🙏

#Grateful for a 1000 x better day today than yesterday (celebrating with a glass of wine), being focused on what I had to face and do right at the start of the day; for another beautiful day with the most exquisite sunset, despite being slightly more chilly; for another excellent Exercise Time this morning, getting to 3rd Beach in Clifton before having to turn around, and receiving another generous 300 Discovery Vitality points for the Cardio exertion ❤️; for my exercising of this past week surpasssing that of last week, averaging 15000 steps and 11 km per day; for receiving the most kind and generous service from Jared Stein of Camps Bay Hardware, when he sourced Citronella candles for me, with a village values feel; for having a busy working day; for chatting to Chef Jenny Morris, trying to encourage her to do deliveries of her Yumcious salads and pork belly; for our nurses around the world, recognized through International Nurses Day; for discovering that two German shops in Gardens are operating (Hartlief and The German Grocer); for connecting with my Alex ❤️; for dancing to Kfm this afternoon; and for being happy and healthy 🙏💙 Continue reading →

Winter 2018 a restaurant bloodbath in Cape Town and Winelands, but exciting new openings too!

Every winter is a tough time for the restaurant industry. With the dip in Tourism due to the water shortage, and the early heavy winter rains, the restaurants in Cape Town and the Winelands are feeling the pinch, and many have closed down, even some on the iconic restaurant Bree Street, as well as in the Waterfront!  Continue reading →

Eat Out goes to market in March at Old Biscuit Mill!

The Eat Out DStv Food Network Festival 2013 will be held at the Neighbourgoods Market at the Old BIscuit Mill on 15 and 16 March, consisting of a day and night market, a pop-up picnic, and a chefs’ ‘market-to-table dinner’.

Originally the Eat In Produce Awards, which brand name was dropped last year and incorporated under the Eat Out brand, the Eat Out Festival 2013 will recognise the best fresh food producers in South Africa, and they will be setting up stands with their produce at the night market on 15 March. On the same evening the pop-up picnics, ironically sponsored by ‘Knorr whatsfordinner‘, will be prepared by Chef Jenny Morris and Eat Out editor Abigail Donnelly, using only the fresh food producers’ award winning products.  One can order picnics, prepared at the ‘Knorr whatsfordinner kitchen’, an unfortunate brand association which reminds one of Chef Reuben Riffel’s endorsement of Robertsons spices and herbs, and a product type one does not expect in food in a picnic basket, nor in association with Eat Out!

On 16 March the fresh food produce winners will display and sell their produce again, as part of the Neighbourgoods Market in the morning.  In the evening five chefs, as yet unnamed in the Eat Out media release, will serve a ‘unique interactive market-to-table dinner’, sponsored by Woolworths, client of New Media Publishing in contract publishing its Taste magazine.  There is no doubt that Chef Luke Dale-Roberts will be one of the chefs, given that his restaurants The Test Kitchen and The Pot Luck Club both are based at the Old Biscuit Mill, and that he has a business relationship with Woolworths.  However, Woolworths’ ingredients will not be used, once again the fresh food producers’ products being used in the five chefs’ pop-up kitchens, the media statement says.

The media release makes it sound as if this is a first for Eat Out (or its ex-Eat In), but it has held the Producer Awards at both the Slow Market at Oude Libertas and the Neighbourgoods Market at the Old Biscuit Mill in previous years.  Only the pop-up chefs’ kitchen is a new aspect of the Festival.

Eat Out DStv Food Network Festival 2013, Old Biscuit Mill, Woodstock.  15 March evening and 16 March morning free entrance.  Pop-up Chefs’ dinner costs R350 for 3 courses and wine, according to the Eat Out media release and R400 according to the Eat Out internet newsletter announcement, both published on the same day, and R700 for dinner for two!   Bookings: 0827826707.

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com Twitter: @WhaleCottage