Guide to Eating and Travelling Across South Africa
South Africa has always felt like a place that asks you to pay attention: to the view from a Cape Town hillside, the first bite of Durban bunny chow, a Joburg table of lemon-butter prawns or a farmer explaining why indigenous crops matter. These stories move between city restaurants, townships, wine country, safari lodges, food festivals and working farms, with food as the way into the people, history and generous, sometimes surprising moments that stayed with me.
We're on our last day of our South African trip. The rise is difficult on just a few hour's sleep. It was all my fault really, you see I was persuaded to come along to the Montecasino by the fun film crew and that was quite surreal indeed. On these trips, you really live off fumes (jet fumes really!) and you tend to be in a state of confusion and sleep deprivation. So it's made all the more surreal when you step into a casino and see a ceiling with clouds and a sky and shops of all sorts. It's sort of like gambling in Disneyland.
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