by Marion Ellis | Sep 17, 2024 | Food & Wine Matters, Insightful Matters
Tim Atkins is an award-winning wine writer and Master of Wine with 38 years’ experience. He writes for a number of publications, including Harpers, Decanter, The World of Fine Wine and The Drinks Business. For his twelfth and longest yet South...
by Marion Ellis | Mar 10, 2022 | Food & Wine Matters, Heritage & History Matters, Insightful Matters
The Telegraph newspaper in the UK has declared Cape Town, South Africa, “the greatest city in the world to visit right now”. It always feels good when the rest of the world acknowledges it … and the compliments for Cape Town are bursting in this particular Telegraph...
by Marion Ellis | Oct 29, 2021 | Food & Wine Matters, Safari & Wildlife Matters
More accolades for Cape Town — also included in ”The 20 Best Places to Travel in 2021” by Forbes magazine. Rated as ”First Class”, it’s why South Africa is among the 10 Countries Americans feel safest about visiting; and why Cape Town has...
by Marion Ellis | Oct 25, 2021 | Art & Design Matters, Food & Wine Matters, Heritage & History Matters, Insightful Matters
Cape Town is South Africa’s crown jewel and the most European city you’ll find on the African continent. Founded by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, it was South Africa’s first attempt at a modern metropolis on the southwestern tip of Africa,...
by Marion Ellis | Apr 20, 2021 | Food & Wine Matters, Green Matters, Insightful Matters
As the climate crisis becomes ever more serious, each Earth Day that comes along takes on extra significance. Figures show that global CO2 emissions are now back at above pre-pandemic levels, despite all the talk of “nature healing” when countries around the world...
by Marion Ellis | Mar 20, 2021 | Food & Wine Matters, Insightful Matters, Visionary Matters
Truffles are one of the most expensive foods on earth. The prices is a staggering USD2,000/ R30,000 a kilo. They’ve been described as the ‘Mozart of Mushrooms’. They are a fungus that rarely occurs in nature and only grows only in a Mediterranean climate. They...
