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A Table in the Corner is the space where Russel Wasserfall chats to people in the food industry about their passion and their take on the business of eating. Russel has worked in the media and food space for over 3 decades. He's run bars, restaurants and a confectionery factory, written for dozens of food and travel publications and made a bunch of cookbooks. His show is about the nitty-gritty of the food trade in all its forms. Top chefs, food artisans, proprietors, bakers, farmers, foragers, cheesemakers, writers, photographers, bloggers... you name it. If they’re involved in the food industry, you will meet them with Russel at A Table in the Corner.
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In this episode of A Table in the Corner, I chat to David Donde, the entrepreneur behind Flour Market, a Cape Town bakery built around good ingredients, traditional methods and a commitment to making bread properly. David is best known for his contribution to the local specialty coffee scene through Origin Coffee and Truth Coffee, but Flour Market takes his interest in product quality into a different part of the food business. We talk about why David decided to open a bakery after enco...
In this episode of A Table in the Corner, I chat to Bérengère Cristini, (Beran to her friends) founder of Thirteen Ice Cream, a Cape Town ice cream maker supplying restaurants, chefs and specialist food retailers. Originally from Burgundy, Beran trained as a chef in France, working in professional kitchens in Paris and Monaco before moving into pastry and food production. He came to Cape Town in 2013 and established the business that would become 13 Ice Cream, formerly known as Sorbetier.&nbs...
In this episode of A Table in the Corner, I chat to Pamela Shippel-Granoth, the cook, teacher and restaurateur behind Fynkos at Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town. Pamela has spent almost 50 years working with food, beginning with home cooking and small-scale catering before moving into cookery teaching, recipe development, radio and food writing. We trace her career from those early days through 12 years at Pick n Pay, where she ran cooking demonstrations and built a cookery school, to ...
In this episode of A Table in the Corner, I chat to Justin Joubert of Southern Cross Seafood Deli, the Cape Town fishmonger and seafood supplier established by his father, Paul, in 2007. Justin joined the family business after working as a chef for eight years, bringing kitchen experience to a business that sits between fishermen, suppliers, restaurants and home cooks. We talk about the realities of buying and selling fresh fish, from building long-term relationships with small-scale fi...
In this episode of A Table in the Corner, I chat to chef Carla Burger about Bloem, the restaurant she co-owns with Bertus Basson at Paul Clüver Family Wines in Elgin. We talk about Carla’s journey through the Basson kitchens, from Overture and Eike to Spek & Bone and Chorus, and the move from pastry chef to running her own restaurant. Carla explains why Bloem was conceived as a more relaxed, family-friendly restaurant suited to the Elgin landscape, rather than another destination fine-din...
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