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Food
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Have You Taken The Cinnamon Challenge? Don’t
23 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Load up YouTube. Search, “Cinnamon challenge”. You’ll laugh, either at the stupidity of the subjects in the video, or their spasmodic gagging, or both. If you’re young, you might be tempted to take the challenge yourself. Don’t. Apart from being intensely uncomfortable, you’ll probably permanently damage your lungs.
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Man Resigns From His Job To Become A Baker – Writes It On A Cake [PIC]
16 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Chris “Mr Cake” Holmes, knew where his heart was and knew that his current job was not for him. Holmes also knew what path he wanted to take on his new journey. So he wrote his resignation letter on a cake.
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Don’t Fail At Fun This Weekend – Get To The Taste Of Cape Town Festival!
12 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s here! The Taste Of Cape Town festival kicked off last night, and those of you who think it just happens to be about fine dining need to readjust your perceptions before you’re suffering from a massive case of FOMO on Monday morning. In general, you can expect gourmet food from a laundry list of […]
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Guinea Pig Could Be The Beef Of The Future – Environmentalists
05 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Guinea pigs don’t require the land that cattle do. They can be kept in backyards, or in your home. They’re docile and easy to raise. And they’re great with a wedge of lemon
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The Feastival Is Here – Get Your Tickets To The Taste Of Cape Town 2013
04 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If facemelting food served in a fun, informal vibe with bubbly, craft beer, and stunning local wines is your bag, then keep reading
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Online App Turns Your Paintings Into Pizza, Has Them Delivered [VIDEO]
03 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is why America gets to have all the nice things. Swedish artist Jonas Lund has developed an app for a New York pizzeria that takes creating your own custom pizza pie to the next level – the online level. Paint Your Pizza is an online app that lets you create your own pizza artwork on an […]
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6 Cocktails To Get You Through The Fifth Season Of Mad Men [PICS]
02 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Look, season six of Mad Men is just around the corner, which means that we have to start mixing our drinks again in order to more effectively channel the spirit of Donald Draper. But we’ve put up with the Old Fashioned now for five seasons and it’s getting, well, old fashioned. So if you thought […]
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In Addition To Donkey And Zebra, There Is Almost Definitely Human DNA In Your Meat – Scientists
27 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
These words of comfort are courtesy of scientists over at Stellenbosch University. Thanks loads, guys. Stellenbosch University professor of meat sciences, Louw Hoffman said during a briefing to Parliament’s portfolio committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on Tuesday that “Workers are often cutting themselves. If we had done DNA tests, we probably would have found traces […]
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Introducing The World’s First Fully Edible Cake Hotel [VIDEO]
25 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This is exactly what it sounds like. Soho, Central London was the scene of the opening of the world’s first edible hotel this last weekend. Which is awesome, except that it is slightly disappointing that there isn’t an entrepreneur out there genuinely hell bent on giving people a night in an edible room. The hotel was launched […]
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The Death Wish Blend – The Strongest Coffee In The World
20 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There is a huge percentage of us that need our morning fix, especially when working long days at work. There’s no doubt that a beautiful blend of coffee is addictive, but something this strong could send you to an early grave. Labelled the “Worlds Strongest Coffee,” this new blend named Death Wish lives up to […]
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Nando’s Nation: Britain’s Love Affair With Chicken
12 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apparently Britain’s elite, celebrities and Olympic Gold medalists choose Nando’s. The first woman to win a gold medal for boxing, Nicola Adams celebrated at the popular food restaurant. And footballers earning £25 000 (R330 000) a week, choose Nando’s as their after training meal of choice, not to mention Rihanna, Britney Spears and Lewis Hamilton. In […]
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Use Google Maps To See Where Rich And Poor People Live In South Africa
11 Mar 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
We spotted an article on BusinessInsider about a Reddit post which showed a search for high and low end retailers, as a way to define a city’s rich and poor areas. We did the same thing, pitting Woolworths against Shoprite. Here are the results:
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Locusts Descend On Egypt And Israel In Plague Of Biblical Proportions [VIDEO]
08 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Okay, so we probably went for the low hanging fruit on that headline. Locust plagues have swarmed Egypt, southern Israel and Gaza. The plague has struck three weeks before the Jewish Passover holiday that recounts the deadly plagues of Exodus – one of which is a plague of locusts, according to scripture. Farmers in the affected […]
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‘Hunting The Black Diamond’ – Truffle Hunting In Provence
05 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Apart from the history, the buildings, the food, the wine, the beauty and the quirky people, and just when you thought that you had seen everything, Provence keeps popping up with something unique and memorable. Truffle-hunting!
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“The Fast Diet” – Eat 5 Days, Fast For 2
05 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A new diet which is all the craze in the UK involves not eating at all. “The Fast Diet” was published in January, and has been at the top of the best seller book list on Amazon’s British site for much of the time since then. According to the founder of Short Books publishing house, Rebecca […]
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Why Paris Restaurants Are Putting As Much Horse As They Can On Their Menus
04 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
The French are applauding the recent outbreak of horse meat in beef-labelled products. With horse meat consumption showing a steady decline over the last three decades, France has translated the scandal into a trend. There are currently 750 butchers in the country, with 17% of the population claiming to have eaten horse meat. 11 000 […]
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R80 For Two Tickets To Pick & Pay Taste Of Cape Town Festival – Get Your Feast On! (50% OFF)
04 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Food, food, food. Everyone loves it, no one can get enough of it. The Tast of Cape Town Festival is one of the most scrumptious get togethers on our local culinary map, and you can experience it for less, thanks to this rad deal. Two tickets to the Pick & Pay Taste of Cape Town Festival at the […]
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“Do You Want To Live Forever?!” – Mediterranean Diet Reduces Risks Of Heart Disease
26 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you don’t know about the Mediterranean diet this is it in short. It’s a modern and nutritional diet based on the use of traditional foods from southern Italy, Greece and Spain. According to proponents of the diet, adding high content of olive oils, vegetables, fruits and even wine to your daily consumption helps to […]
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Shock Study: Forget The Horse Meat Scandal – We’ve Got Donkey In Our SA Mince!
26 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Stellenbosch University’s meat scientists have been busy little bodies, conducting a thorough study of commercially-available meat products in the wake of an international scandal around the presence of delicious horse meat in European meat products not labelled “horse meat”.
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Pieces Of Glass Found In Kellogg’s Special K Cereal
21 Feb 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
We’ve heard stories of cartilage and beaks turning up in chicken dishes, which kind of makes sense, given that the foreign objects are linked to the product itself. But glass? In cereal? That’s what they’re dealing with right now in the US.
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SA’s Hellmann’s Mayonnaise Importer Responds To Consumer Outcry
16 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
You would have picked up by now (read here) that a large portion of SA’s upwardly mobile premium-brand consumers are in a tizz over the fact that Hellmann’s mayonnaise has pretty much disappeared from shelves around the country. Well here is the official response:
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[Updated] The Mysterious Disappearance Of Hellmann’s Mayonnaise From SA Shelves
15 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 10 Comments
The big question is, what has happened to Hellman’s Mayonnaise? Have they gone out of business? Suddenly the premium brand of mayo is hard to find – and we’re not the only people that think so. Look at this:
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Robertson’s Spices With No Salt & Vinegar – What Is The Point?
14 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
So not only has the ‘Continental Deli’ in Camps Bay stopped stocking Carmel gherkins, but they have also decided not to stock the Salt & Vinegar flavour Robertson’s spices. Why taunt us by having such a limited selection?
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The World Wastes Nearly Half Its Food
11 Jan 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This should serve as a wake up call to everyone, but it probably won’t, and the human race will continue to waste vast amounts of food.
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Disgusting: Pick n Pay Is Now Selling “Ass Yoghurt”
11 Dec 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 8 Comments
It’s incredible what retailers are diversifying into these days, but sometimes that is what it takes to stand out. Pick ‘n Pay obviously think that ‘Ass Yoghurt’ will help their efforts against Checkers.
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“Tastes Like Roids” – Europe Won’t Eat USA’s Toxic Horse Meat
11 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Here’s the pretext: retired race horses – and horses from similarly competitive backgrounds – are routinely carted from the United States to Canada or Mexico, where they are slaughtered, processed, and shipped to France (and other European countries) for human consumption. This is not a new phenomenon. It has been going on for about as […]
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Nederburg’s Summer Pop Up “Red Table” Restaurant Is Tres Cool
07 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Nederburg has created a novel restaurant for the summer, open from Wednesday to Sunday until the end of April. Called the Red Table, it offers locally-sourced fresh, light bistro-style food in a relaxed and gesellige atmosphere. The menu has been devised to match the farm’s rich and varied range of award-winning wines. What makes it […]
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Wall Street Journal Includes 2oceansvibe Stunt In ‘PHOTOS OF THE YEAR 2012’ Feature
07 Dec 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
The Wall Street Journal editors picked “the best photos of the year – representing the key moments and defining images of the news in 2012.” They included our Clifton Trawler Butlers Pizza Stunt we did in May. Click through for the pic + video.
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“I’ll Have Heart Disease With That” – How Fast Food Is Killing You
27 Nov 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
If you’re eating on the go, you’re planning for a short life. Professor Patrick Bouic was in the 2oceansvibe Radio studio last week on the Just Josie Show, to discuss the very real health threats that fast food poses to us, and our kids. Click through for top tips on how to side step heart disease.
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Eat Out Magazine Reveals SA’s Top 10 Restaurants For 2012
26 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The Eat Out DStv Food Network Restaurant Awards took place in the grand ballroom at the Westin in Cape Town last night. Apart from the prestigious Restaurant of the Year award, several other accolades were also dished out, including Chef of the Year, Best Steakhouse, and the Service Excellence Award.
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