African Vanielje on Apr 29 2009 at 7:54 am | Filed under: Press, breakfast, kassie's kitchen, my life
A fabulous five page feature in May's Garden & Home
A little while ago a multi-talented and extremely stylish friend who happens to love food, steered a journalist friend of hers my way. And so, via Morne (many thanks Morne) I met Gill Cullinan. She arranged to come and meet me and my family for a laid back brunch, bringing along a very talented photographer, Henrique Wilding. Turns out, we’d met Henrique years before when we helped her out with another shoot she was doing when we were still at Groot Constantia. Also turns out, they are two extremely nice ladies.
Cheese and pesto muffins, and artichoke flan
Actually, nice is such a tepid word. They were fantastic. They may have got more than they bargained for with my noisy (and as Gill puts it: ‘boisterous’ family ), but they showed no fear , and so, like most of our family gatherings we all wound up in the kitchen, all talking at once, screeching with laughter, tripping over dogs, salivating over fresh cheese muffins and artichoke flan, and generally getting on like a house on fire.
gravadlax on molasses seed loaf, and honeybaked granola
I don’t know how Gill did it, but she managed to get almost everything we said in passing, down verbatim, and weave it into a beautiful story that really shows the importance of family to me and my food style. And as for Henrique, I will be forever grateful to her for making my food look so scrumptiously good and also for making me look much better than I did in real life that morning. (I have decided I’m all for airbrushing, because let’s face it, if you’re going to get snapped for posterity, you may as well look good).
Thanks ladies, it was great fun, and thanks to my mom, my sister Kalli, who helped with the styling, and my daughter Dakota & puppy, Jedi, who helped with the eating.
The five page feature is out now, in May’s South African Garden & Home magazine, so pick one up if you are in SA or check out their website.
Oh, and the cherry on the top: Yesterday morning I had a call from a Mr Taylor, owner of a guest house on the Garden Route. Mr Taylor was making the cheese muffins from our recipe in the magazine and just wanted to double check that the amounts printed were correct. They are, and I hope your muffins came out beautifully Mr Taylor. Mine came out of the oven about 15 minutes after your call, and were delicious. It really is one of my favourite recipes.
You are getting a whole lot of press at the moment! Congratulations!
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Great to hear – and now I’m going to have to go and buy some magazines, which I haven’t done in years – not since discovering blogging!
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Thanks Charlotte. Like the proverbial London busses….
Kit, I know what you mean, but I am still a big fan of mags. We have a whole shelf full of vintage mags in the deli which people love to pore over, fuelled by creamy cappuccinos
Congratulations Inge. What a special tribute to your family and the love they share for food and each other.
Hi Inge
As I said on the day – it was a great morning spent meeting an inspirational, creative family and the artichoke flan was delicious. (It was all delicious, actually.) I love your blog.
Gill
Thanks Val. It was a beautiful day, and Gill’s words were really warm and heartfelt.
Gill. Thank you again. I can’t tell you how much feedback we’ve had from people phoning to check recipes, to people popping in to the deli, including old Jonkershuis customers.
Wow Inge! What a lovely lovely way of getting well-deserved attention! Everything looks scrumptious!
How wonderful! Gorgeous family and layout.
Thanks Courtney, it does all seem to come at once…
Baking Soda, it was a scrumptious meal, and I did thouroughly enjoy the whole experience.
As I told you before, what a fab fab feature and how intimidatingly glam you look!! I’m really sorry I did not manage to get to Cape Town on my trip last month and see you & the family – and the deli of course. Well done on the great publicity
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I missed you, but will definitely make a point of some time in London on my way back home.
Oh how wonderful for you and so deserved. I’m so glad you’re bck although I have been a bit slow on the uptake here. Always a plesure to come back and have a nosey around.
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Hi Inge,
So happy you got such good feedback. It was a really fun day, maybe we will work together again soon – 3rd time lucky. Happy cooking.
Thanks Marla. Good to be back.
Henrique, thank you. Will hold thumbs for a third time…