Welcome to Lesson 2 of our monthly ‘menu deconstruction’. As a note to self, keep an eye on these posts - in a month or two we’ll be testing your knowledge in the form of an exciting competition! Read Lesson 1 now. Today’s Lesson in Food Terminology: RAGOUT [pronounced ra-goo] – a richly seasoned stew of [...]
It took a humble man with an unfailing vision to unite a population and today we’re one of the only countries in the world with the enviable title of ‘Rainbow Nation’. Seventeen years have passed and never before have so many cultures so readily shared their unique dishes and flavours. And one dish in particular [...]
You don’t need an Honours Degree in Sport Science from Stellenbosch University to be good at sports massage, but it helps. Gideon Maree, the Cape Grace Personal Trainer and Sports Massage Therapist says that doing a sports massage enables him to learn so much about your body that he would otherwise not know. You may [...]
It’s Wine and Dine season at Signal Restaurant and this month the spotlight falls on the owner of Rustenberg Wines, Simon Barlow. Have you always wanted to be a winemaker and did you start out as one? I started out as a Viticulturist in 1978 by mistake. If you could do any other job in [...]
The US Travel + Leisure Magazine has just voted Cape Grace the Best City Hotel in Africa and the Middle East. We asked General Manager, Nigel Pace, what this award means to him and what it takes for Cape Grace to reach and maintain this pinnacle of achievement. Q. What does this award mean to [...]
How many times have you gone to a restaurant, taken one look at the menu and wondered what all those strange words mean? Most people have no clue what gremolata, espuma or ceviche means, so we’ve deconstructed the Cape Grace menu to bring enlightenment to all you food lovers. Ordering will no longer feel like [...]
Today’s ubersexual man has a more manly approach to health, skincare and overall wellbeing than the metrosexual man ever did (he was concerned only with how he looked). Having said that; the things that worry men most are thinning hair and yellowing teeth, followed by signs of aging and skincare and feeling – and looking [...]
It’s Wine and Dine season at Signal Restaurant and this month the spotlight falls on Thelema Mountain Vineyards winemaker, Rudi Schultz. Have you always wanted to be a winemaker and did you start out as one? Yes, it was my first choice as a profession. If you could do any other job [...]
Long, long ago, in a city called Babylon, a young boy, Elmesu, wished his father good health and a long life by carving the words onto a clay tablet. Thousands of years later Father’s Day has become a little more commercialised, but we buy into it to show our appreciation of fatherhood. It is usually [...]
Gone are the days when it was all downhill from middle age. Oh yes, you can still be nifty at over fifty. Now, people are staying younger for longer (by one means or another) and retiring later (Raymond Ackerman retired aged 79). There’s life in the old dog yet but it helps if someone else [...]