Daily Maverick THANK GOD IT'S FOOD! Spilling the Karoo Beans

[Click here for the web version of this email]( Friday, 12 July, 2019 “I live on good soup, not on fine words.” Molière Served up by Daily Maverick, garnished by [Adspace]( [GASTROTURF]( [In old Graaff-Reinet, a meeting of Karoo minds and palates]( [By TONY JACKMAN]( [When in Graaff-Reinet, speak a little Graaffrikaans, organise a friendly Karoo ‘meeting’, and get the guy at the other side of the table to order the wine.]( [Read more]( [SOUL SOUP]( [Spilling the beans on a classic Karoo broth]( [By GORDON WRIGHT]( [A culinary journey to save a soup that is quite possibly the essence and soul of Karoo food.]( [Read more]( [einet's]( [GORDON'S 7-BEAN BOONTJIESOP]( [This heroic Karoo soup comes from Thank God It's Food contributor Gordon Wright’s best-selling cookbook Veld to Fork and is his painstaking adaptation of the classic old Karoo boontjiesop to turn it into something truly special, totally ‘Karoo’ and an African dish to boot. His dish was inspired by the boontjiesop at Graaff-Reinet's Drostdy Hotel.]( [Adspace]( [Big on quality, small on price. Shop our favourite Pick n Pay ranges. Click here]( [SURF’S (SERVED) UP!]( [Keanon Micheals, the surfer chef who wants to save the world]( [By YOLISA QUNTA]( [Chef Keanon Michaels flies high but always stays close to his roots as a ‘third or fourth generation coloured surfer from the original Strandfontein 9 Miles Beach’. He still works to uplift that community.]( [Read more]( [CONVERSATION PIECE]( [Aroma ticks the memory boxes]( [By STEVIE GODSON]( [A camera that captures smells. The artificial aroma of bacon in an aerosol made for readers of e-books. A whiff of coffee that has you drooling. Pungent or sweet, our sense of smell takes us right there. And it’s exploited. As the old ad says, ‘A product that smells good, sells good’.]( [Read more]( [LINDEN ON A PLATE]( [‘Boere Houghton’ comes into its own]( [By GWYNNE CONLYN]( [No longer ‘Boere Houghton’, today Linden with its wide, tree-lined avenues is a cosmopolitan culinary hub in the mould of Parkhurst, Melville and Parktown North.]( [Read more]( [BRIE TO BLUE]( [Finding the best local cheese in Joburg]( [By NIKITA SINGH]( [Still in Linden, we find Tangy Chèvre with a chalky finish. Creamy, buttery rounds of Brie. Sharp aged Cheddar that crumbles as you slice. We all have a favourite, but there’s one little shop in Joburg that stocks almost every local fromage. Say cheese to Linden’s Cheese Gourmet.]( [Read more]( In Numbers 7 The varieties of beans in Gordon Wright's magnificent and authentic Karoo boontjiesop (bean soup) for which you will find a link to the recipe above and the story of how it came about. 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](