Daily Maverick THANK GOD IT'S FOOD! Picanha – a piquant steak-out

[Click here for the web version of this email]( Friday, 5 July, 2019 “Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.” MFK Fisher Served up by Daily Maverick, garnished by [Adspace]( [GASTROTURF]( [Piquant Picanha: Steaking out a lovely muscle]( [By Tony Jackman]( [Move over, sirloin, rump and rib-eye – picanha has hit town. As for you, fillet, take a back seat.]( [Read more]( [CHIMICHURRI]( [It has the sass and pizzazz of the salsa and the energy of someone doing the tango on your palate. It’s chimichurri, the South American sauce that’s just perfect with a steak – not least, the superb cut of beef known as the picanha.]( [CULTURE CLUB]( [The West Coast Cheese Renaissance]( [By Andrew Newby]( [The West Coast is a territory of contrasts, from the bleak to the sublime. And every so often, it tosses up a surprise. Meet the cheeseries, cheeses and cheesemakers of the Weskus.]( [Read more]( [Adspace]( [Big on quality, small on price. Shop our favourite Pick n Pay ranges. Click here]( [BEAUTY AND THE FEAST]( [The majesty of Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher]( [By Mark Eardley]( [MFK Fisher set the gold standard for culinary literature. Her books about a life lived against a backdrop of cooking and eating – published from the late 1930s onwards – prompted a giant of English poetry, WH Auden, to hail her in 1963 as the best living prose writer in America.]( [Read more]( [CAPE DINING]( [Woodstock’s tiny vegan Kind of Kitchen]( [By Bianca Coleman]( [The Kind Kitchen began serving a small vegan menu from Jay Mac’s home kitchen in 2018, which was only available via Uber Eats. The demand for his food prompted him to crowd-fund the tiny café and deli. There are only four tables. Four very busy tables.]( [Read more]( [SUN FOOD]( [Bambara and food crops of continental memory]( [By Marie-Lais Emond]( [When Siphiwe Sithole wakes up with the sunrise, she doesn’t check her cellphone. She thinks about her plants, the vegetables and fruit we’ve forgotten we need. She farms so that we can remember, to eat them and benefit.]( [Read more]( In Numbers 19 The number of Brazilian cuts of beef. Italy also has 19, but they're very different cuts. The French, by contrast, have 29 beef cuts; Portugal 15, Britain 14, and the USA a mere 12. Source: Wikipedia [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](