Blog Posts
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Food of the Month: Pears
2012-02-03
This month we will be celebrating the virtues of one of nature’s most delicious fruits, namely the pear, in our Food of the Month section.
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Food of the Month: Cherries
2012-01-23
If there is one fruit above all that is associated with the Festive Season, then it is surely cherries. These sweet little treasures are a delight during this time of the year, and can be used in a variety of ways in your festive cooking.
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Food of the Month: Strawberries
2011-11-01
Nothing tastes better in summer than freshly-picked strawberries with cream, or eaten just as is. However, when biting into this delicious fruit you probably don’t realize that it has quite and rich and colourful history.
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Food of the Month: Pineapples
2011-10-03
This month we’ll be celebrating the virtues of the juicy and delicious sub-tropical fruit called a pineapple. Let’s start at the beginning and tell you a little more about how this one-of-a-kind fruit was first discovered by Europeans.
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Food of the Month: Bananas
2011-09-14
Bananas are by far the world’s most popular fruit. Its origins can be traced back to the region of Malaysia. From there they travelled to India. It is here where Alexander the Great, busy with one of his conquests, had his first taste of a banana. He is credited with introducing this famed fruit to the Western world.
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Food of the month: Turnips
2011-08-01
Before potatoes were abundant beyond South America, turnips were everyday staples, particularly in Europe during the Middle Ages. The origins of the turnip are vague but it may have come from northeastern Europe or Asia many thousands of years ago.
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Food of the month: Ginger
2011-07-04
Winter is flu season and there’s no better natural remedy against a nagging cold than ginger.
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Food of the Month: Garlic
2011-06-01
The word ‘garlic’ comes from Old English garleac, meaning "spear leek”. Dating back over 6,000 years, it is native to Central Asia, and has long been a staple in the Mediterranean region, as well as a frequent seasoning in Asia, Africa, and Europe.
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Food of the Month: Pumpkin
2011-05-04
Pumpkins are an icon of autumn, yet the history and important nutrition hidden in these vitamin-packed, healthy fruits is widely unknown. The word pumpkin comes from the Greek pepõn for a large melon. The English termed it pumpion or pompion. This term dates back to 1547, yet it did not make an appearance in print until 1647.
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Food of the Month: Spanspek
2011-03-29
The orange-fleshed melon which South Africans call “spanspek”, is actually known in the rest of the world as cantaloupes, and is named after the papal garden of Cantaloupe, Italy where it was cultivated in the sixteenth century. However, the history of cantaloupes dates back to Biblical times, around 2400 B.C., when it was a popular fruit in the East.
