Food & drinks to feed your senses

SALT OF THE EARTH

Everything about the Groote Post Seasalter Sauvignon Blanc reflects the estate’s West Coast terroir. The name highlights the unique minerality and saltiness of Groote Post’s white wines, while the refreshing packaging design shouts West Coast. Groote Post Seasalter Sauvignon Blanc 2020 (R151, groote-post-wines. myshopify.com) is an intense Sauvignon Blanc blended with 10% Semillon; it boasts notes of citrus, hints of fynbos and a touch of oak on the palate.

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With Vickie de Beer’s Low-Carb Express (R320, Penguin Random House) you can cook meals that will not only benefit you and your family’s health but might just benefit your budget too! Whether you have five minutes to whip up a nutritious egg scramble or immune-boosting smoothie, or half an hour to make a tasty low-carb bobotie or delicious low-carb cupcakes, Vickie proves that there’s no such thing as too little time to make better food choices!

Salad days

Add a bold twist to your table with this set of beaten-metal salad servers (R349, home.co.za).

PURCHASE WITH PURPOSE

Goedgedacht’s Extra Virgin Olive Oil and related products including table olives, olive paste and fruit-infused oil-free salad dressings are available online! Proceeds go back into the Goedgedacht Trust which works to build self-sustainable rural communities in SA. Visit goedgedachttrading.com.

Clifton Cocktail Gin (R429, cliftongin.com) with its blend of mineral and menthol notes of Cape kelp and Cape Snowbush captures the fresh taste of the Atlantic Ocean. Top notes of citrus peel and cucumber are bolstered by minty notes of buchu, one of the signature floras of the Cape.

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s is a cook with a passion for its people and, most of all, the a’s Mussel Feast is the first in a series of E-books from her kitchen, offering 15 easy recipes celebrating fresh mussels. It’s available for direct download from isabellaniehaus.co.za for only R150.