“It’s like working with a piece of art”
Posted on 02. Jun, 2010 by Marina in Kitchen Gear
Are you a knife person? If you are you’ll be excited to hear we are officially South Africa’s exclusive supplier of I.O.Shen knives. Yes sirree. We couldn’t be more pleased. We’ve just added them to our knives section, so go and have a look. They are on their way from Europe, and will be available [...]
Good food, good wine & Gordon
Posted on 17. May, 2010 by Marina in People & Places
Last year, we exhibited at the Good Food and Wine show: This year, we didn’t exhibit but attended together as something of a team outing. We arrived at 5pm, and browsed around the many stands. The Stomers-Bulls rugby was being screened, so the background sound at the show was an interesting mix of crowd-roars, tinkling [...]
G to the Ordon Ramsay
Posted on 14. May, 2010 by Marina in People & Places
Today, we met Gordon Ramsay. Here’s how it all happened. We recently made friends with Luke Jeftha, who works at Primedia. He is helping us make radio magic happen, we’re going to be running radio adverts from June (listen out for them!). In a brainstorming meeting last week, he threw out that Gordon would be [...]
Where and what with Justin Bonello
Posted on 28. Apr, 2010 by Marina in People & Places
We ran a little competition on our Facebook page, and asked people to tell us about their dream African meal-date with Justin Bonello. Justin is a homegrown Celebrity chef and starred in his own cooking and travel show around Africa. He does unusual things, we like that. We also like that he penned down his [...]
Shane visits Cheyne’s
Posted on 03. Apr, 2009 by Shane in People & Places
Last week I dropped in at Cheyne Morrisby’s new kitchen style restaurant at 108 Bree Street, Cape Town. Cheyne’s is an awesome little spot, seating a maximum of 18 in ‘chef’s table’ style right next to the newly opened Brewer’s & Union. Cheyne is aiming to showcase what he has done and experienced over the [...]
Follow Jamie Oliver
Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by Shane in News & Trends
We like Jamie. We think he is a very smart guy. 34,844 other people also like Jamie and they are choosing to follow him on Twitter. You can do the same here. If you you haven’t started following Yuppiechef’s tweets on Twitter, you can follow us here. If you are wondering what the heck we’re [...]
Recipease: Jamie takes food loving to the next level
Posted on 07. Mar, 2009 by Paul in News & Trends
The latest addition to Jamie Oliver’s food-lifestyle-empire is the first of his Recipease stores which opened in Clapham Junction, London, last week. At Yuppiechef we’re great Jamie Oliver fans so there was no way I was missing the opening day. Described as ‘Jamie’s new food and kitchen shop where anyone can learn to cook and [...]
The Great British Food Fight
Posted on 02. Mar, 2009 by Shane in News & Trends
The UK’s Channel Four is running a season of programmes exploring the issues around the food that the British eat. Heston Blumenthal, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay will be celebrating the best of British food and exploring issues around animal welfare in a number of hard-hitting films. I absolutely loved the trailer for [...]
Jamie’s Ministry of Food
Posted on 15. Oct, 2008 by Shane in Yuppiechef Diary
Jamie Oliver’s new book “Jamie’s Ministry of Food” arrived at the Yuppiechef HQ’s last week and so far it’s looking fantastic. Jamie is on a mission again to try and teach the Brits (and the rest of the world) how to cook – this all forms part of his new campaign: Jamie Oliver’s new TV [...]
Naked news: Jamie’s Italian
Posted on 06. Nov, 2007 by Shane in News & Trends
The guy who brought 'Cool' into the kitchen , Jamie Oliver (much respect from the YC team), is opening a new "neighbourhood" restaurant. The new establishment will offer high quality, authentic Italian food at an affordable price – the first restaurant (of what seems to be many) is set to open in Bath, England in [...]
