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.
