THANK GOD IT'S FOOD! Wolfgat, reviewed

[Click here for the web version of this email]( Friday, 17 May, 2019 “Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.” Auguste Escoffier Brought to you with the help of our launch partner [Adspace]( [GASTROTURF]( [Soups & Simplicity: Tending broths, sharing lives]( [By Tony Jackman]( [The soup in the pot on the fire in the night. The broth is to the palate what the flickering flame is to the naked eye. It soothes and entrances you; it conspires to inflame the senses, fire your memories; it ignites the poet, gets the stories rolling off the tongue, satiates the soul. You sup; you breathe. You live.]( [Read more]( [WOLFGAT, REVIEWED]( [Paternoster’s Strandveld food, from shore to plate]( [By Sophia Lindop]( [Wolfgat, and chef Kobus van der Merwe, are on every food-obsessed person’s lips. Websites and magazine articles proclaim his rise to fame. But who is this young man and what makes his food so unbelievable? Is it just hype or is this for real? I set out to fill in the blanks, first by finding out a little more about him.]( [Read more]( [Adspace]( [Big on quality, small on price. Shop our favourite Pick n Pay ranges. Click here]( [THE ART IN ARTISAN]( [Getting ahead in the fine craft of chocolate]( [By Christi Nortier]( [The only café in Cape Town dedicated to dark chocolate is putting the art back in artisan, inside and outside the wrapper, by teaming up with painters, illustrators and sculptors. What artisan and artist have in common shines through their collaboration.]( [Read more]( [FIT FOR AN EMPEROR]( [From mopane worms to MCC, squared – all in a week’s ‘work’]( [By Bianca Coleman]( [The nice thing about train travel is that you tend to lurch all the time so no one can actually confirm you’re tipsy. A glass or two of bubbly would have helped with the mopane worms a day or two earlier, come to think of it.]( [Read more]( [ROTI & CHAI]( [Durban’s Delhi-style street concept flexes its muscles]( [By Nikita Singh]( [Sandesh Rampersad was unemployed and desperate to put food on the table for his two young daughters. This is how the gourmet street food phenomenon, Roti & Chai, was born. The Durban-based brand is spreading is wings in 2020, rolling out stores in parts of the US and UK.]( [Read more]( [EAT DIRT, KALE]( [The Mighty Pea is the vegetable du jour]( [By Deena Shanker and Lydia Mulvany for Bloomberg]( [You can call it an overreaction to some bad soy headlines, or chalk it up to concerns about the environmental impacts of meat. Either way, it’s hard to ignore the food industry’s new favourite protein source — peas.]( [Read more]( While you were out to lunch... Change is afoot in sleepy, traditional Paarl, where the idyllic Grande Roche is back in South African hands. Pete Goffe-Wood will helm Viande, the new restaurant to open at Paarl’s Grande Roche Hotel, now owned by locals Hansie and Theresa Britz. It’s approaching three decades since the hotel opened at the start of a dazzling epoch that introduced a slew of top European chefs to the SA cuisine scene. A new cocktail bar is planned and the proprietors promise 'individual treatment' for brandies, Paarl being arguably the centre of the Cape brandy universe. In Numbers 20.556 million Revenue in the soup sector worldwide in 2019, in US$. Source: www.statista.com [Shop our latest specials]( [Big on quality, small on price. Shop our favourite Pick n Pay ranges](Click here]( [Adspace]( [FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND]( [Fb] [Tweet] [Link] [Yt] Copyright © 2019 Daily Maverick, All rights reserved. You are receiving this mail because you are awesome and on the Daily Maverick Thank God It's Food subscriber list. [Getting too many emails from us? Manage your preferences]( [Unsubscribe](