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Beginner-Friendly Spaghetti Bolognese Recipe
This beginner-friendly spaghetti bolognese recipe is bound to become a family heirloom.

Shannon Devy
Jul 4, 20245 min read


Vodka Tomato Pasta Recipe
This classic, quick and easy pasta dish is ideal for a night in for two.

Shannon Devy
Jun 20, 20243 min read


Sticky Sesame Chicken Wings Recipe
This hands-off sticky and crispy chicken wings recipe requires minimal input from home chefs.

Shannon Devy
Jun 6, 20244 min read


Winter Soup Series: Slow-Roasted Tomato Soup Recipe
Any lucky patron of Clarke's bar and restaurant has likely enjoyed their tomato soup and cheese toastie combo, a global classic that is...

Shannon Devy
May 24, 20243 min read


Silky Egg Drop Soup Recipe
When I get hungry — I mean really hungry — I descend into a state of madness deeper than hanger. I get feral. Relationships are...

Shannon Devy
May 10, 20243 min read


PLAYTOPIA
Towards the end of last year, my mother sent me a picture that she had just taken of the men in my family sitting on the couch and playing t

Life & Style
May 10, 20244 min read


Talking with Animals
The first pet psychic I hired was a gruff woman called Diane. I booked her because a good friend of mine who works for a respected Cape Town

Life & Style
May 10, 20245 min read


Time to Pack Up and Go Home
If someone told me that they had just done a 400km round trip to rescue an ecologically and commercially irrelevant small fish, I would prob

Life & Style
May 9, 20243 min read


THE RASTAFARI MESSIAH & THE HONKY TONK NUN
Messiah or not, the celebrated Emperor attracted the servitude of Guèbrou, who herself would come to dedicate her life to twin spiritual pur

Life & Style
May 9, 20242 min read


Open Mic at the Lifestyle Centre
Hosted in collaboration with Radio Life & Style 88.0FM, Ballito’s popular commercial music radio station, the Lifestyle Centre Open Mic take

Life & Style
May 9, 20242 min read


Unlocking Potential
The Bright Future of Ballito South Nestled along South Africa's North Coast, the Zimbali precinct, made up of Zimbali Coastal Estate,...

Life & Style
May 9, 20241 min read


Get old, but don’t get boring
IN A WORLD that is increasingly threatened by the insidious rise of the sad beige aesthetic, Iris Apfel was a welcome grenade of colour and

Life & Style
May 9, 20242 min read


Rainbow Revisited - Thandi Ntuli
During the recording of her latest album, Rainbow Revisited, in Los Angeles, lauded producer and percussionist Carlos Niño asked Thandi Ntul

Life & Style
May 9, 20246 min read


Saturday Night at the Picture Palace
Why do we accept the death of movie-going? I suppose cinema will be with us for as long as our lounges have surround-sound speakers, but mos

Life & Style
May 9, 20247 min read


Super Simple Chicken Scampi Recipe
This super simple chicken scampi dish is ideal for sharing with friends over a good bottle of Chenin Blanc.

Shannon Devy
Apr 26, 20243 min read


French Ravioli Recipe, or Ravioles du Dauphiné
A few months ago, New York restaurant Café Chelsea put ravioles du Dauphiné on the menu and, predictably for a niche pasta shape, it went...

Shannon Devy
Apr 11, 20244 min read


Budget-Friendly Sausage and Aubergine Stew
When I served this budget-friendly sausage and aubergine stew to my partner, she said that it made her feel like a coal miner hunching...

Shannon Devy
Mar 29, 20244 min read


Chicken Soup for When You're Sick
At the first hint of a seasonal change, my immune system is prone to take a personal day and leave me vulnerable to whatever lurgies are...

Shannon Devy
Mar 15, 20243 min read


Easy, Asian-Inspired Cucumber Salad
In the height of Chinese summer, pedestrians buy chilled cucumbers from street vendors to munch on them as a cooling antidote. Cucumbers...

Shannon Devy
Mar 1, 20243 min read


Leeky Beans on Toast Recipe
Welcome back to work, everyone! The holidays are an increasingly distant memory, but at least Dry January is over for those who are into...

Shannon Devy
Feb 2, 20243 min read
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