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food
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Taxing Instant Noodles? Global Push To Curb Ultra-Processed Food Crisis
23 Sep 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
A doctor has sounded the alarm on ultra-processed foods, saying it’s high time to slap a tax on those noodles—and he’s not stopping there.
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Ultra-Marathon Swimmer Tries To Eat As Much As A Tiger Shark – Up To 40,000 Calories A Day
25 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Tiger sharks have been recorded to swim nearly 8,500 kilometres in a year, and to get the energy for such an epic swim, the apex predators will eat just about anything, from turtles to dolphins to plastic bottles.
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Japan Now Sells Caffeinated Ramen Noodles For Gamers That You Can Eat With One Hand
25 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
To help keep those gamer senses tingling, each pack of Boost Noodle also contains 35 milligrams of caffeine, and the pouch is free-standing, just in case you need to quickly set it down to get both hands back on your controls.
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A Mexican Taco Stand Becomes First To Get A Michelin Star
23 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
At Mexico City’s Tacos El Califa de León, there are only four things on the menu, and their all tacos.
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The French And Swiss Are Fighting Over The Newly Created ‘Fourth Chocolate’
05 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
A fourth kind of chocolate has slowly been making inroads into the French confectionary world, but the Swiss refuse to recognise the French alternative to their pink chocolate.
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Carbs Make You Ugly – Study Shows That Refined Carbohydrates Decreases ‘Facial Attractiveness’
13 Mar 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The findings seem to indicate that too many carbs will not just make you unhealthy, but ugly too.
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Anthony Bourdain Considered His Most Unpleasant Journey “A Low Point” [Video]
25 Jan 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
You might recall the famous disaster, which featured the host embarking on a supposed trip to catch octopus and cuttlefish with a local chef/fisherman, but it was actually a staged ploy by his witty guide.
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Stork Did Something Unique With An Interactive Billboard Delivering A Live Food Experience At Mall Of Africa [Video]
11 Dec 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The iconic margarine brand just delivered some cutting-edge advertising at the Mall of Africa in Jozi.
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Could This Be The Dumbest TikTok Food Trend Of The Year?[Video]
08 Dec 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
TikTok has a huge subgroup that features videos of some of the zaniest gastronomical trends one can imagine, but the latest fad to emerge out of China takes the cake.
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South Africa And Cape Town Win Big In World Culinary Awards
20 Oct 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
With some of the freshest, richest raw ingredients and a remarkable wine scene, it makes perfect sense that South Africa should shine in the World Culinary Awards.
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Cape Town’s Very Own Time Out Market Has Announced Its Opening Date
13 Oct 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
I don’t know about you, but I am so excited for another room full of food, this time from all the best restaurants in the city.
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A Single Bite Of This Meal Can Give You Liver Cancer
12 Sep 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
The dish, despite its clandestine danger, is a delicacy in the region and people have been eating it for decades.
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‘Threads of God’ – A Look At The World’s Rarest Pasta That You Have To Walk 32km To Eat [Video]
18 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Twice a year, a determined assembly of pilgrims embark on a journey to Santuario di San Francesco, a sanctuary nestled in the village of Lula, Sardinia. However, it’s not the location itself that pushes hikers to haul their bodies 32km to the destination but an elusive hand-made pasta.
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Soweto Eatery’s ‘Crocodile Braai’ Is A Surprising Hit And Has ‘Special Powers’
16 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Madlala is clearly a maverick when it comes to exciting new food ventures, and the eatery mogul has plans to add rabbit meat to his expanding menu.
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Lab-Grown Beef May Be The Future Of Food Security In SA
08 Aug 2023 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
While it’s all sounding quite sci-fi at this point – or rather, braai-fi – it’s exciting to see that talented members of our science communities are thinking out of the box for the future, with the best intentions for South Africans in mind.
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China’s Viral Food Trend Mocks Plain “White People Meals”, Dubbed “Lunch Of Suffering”
13 Jul 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Under a photo of processed cheese, ham and crackers packed neatly in plastic (see up top), a Weibo user writes that to eat this for lunch is to “learn what it feels like to be dead”.
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Big Changes Coming To Food Labels In SA
10 Feb 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
No more smiling Patricia Lewis on your hair dye box, and Tim Noakes will have to settle for a slogan along the lines of ‘It’s food. Eat it.’
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Cape Town Cracks A Spot On TripAdvisor’s “Best Food Destination” List
27 Jan 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
The online review site is back at it again, chipping in with its list of the world’s best food destinations for 2023 and feigning over Cape Town.
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South Africa’s Food Security Could Be On The Rocks Soon
19 Jan 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
An executive director at Agri SA said that load shedding is having a regrettable impact on the agricultural industry in the country.
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Out Of All Six Major SA Retailers, Woolies Is Not Actually The One Ripping Us Off
18 Jan 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
When it comes to the bare basics and essentials, data journalists compared the in-store prices of the same basket of goods across six major local retailers.
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Why You’re Struggling To Find Frozen Chips Anywhere
04 Nov 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
You might want to savour that packet of frozen chips you have stashed in the freezer, with shortages and a rise in potato prices affecting the local supply.
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What Is Pink Sauce And Why Has It Gone Viral?
29 Jul 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Chef Pii started promoting the “infamous sauce everyone is raving about” on TikTok in June.
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Are You Ready For The Impending Sriracha Shortage?
23 Jun 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Tragically, an “abysmal spring harvest” of red jalapeño chillis has caused an “unprecedented shortage” of the world-famous hot sauce.
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Fancy That: Some Things Are Actually Cheaper At Woolworths
14 Jun 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Somehow, the high-end Woolies actually has some decent prices, offering some of the cheapest options, some even with significant savings.
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South African Favourite Features On CNN List Of World’s Best Sandwiches
12 May 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Almost every single country on this planet has a unique take on putting pieces of bread together with something delicious stuffed inside.
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SA Start-Up Cracks Africa’s First Lab-Made Beef Burger
29 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Before you tut-tut, the stuff they’ve made apparently tastes and feels just like meat, because it is, except it didn’t come from a slaughtered animal.
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Feast Your Eyes On These Winning Shots From The Food Photographer Of The Year Competition
29 Apr 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
The images are in categories that cover the full range of food in various cultures and societies.
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When In Bali, Fine Dine Underwater [Video]
31 Jan 2022 by Tayla / No Comments
Opened in 2019, the Koral Restaurant is a fine dining experience inside an aquarium complete with thoughtful design touches inspired by Indonesian culture.
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Gordon Ramsay’s Filthy Mouth Is A Smash Hit On TikTok [Videos]
01 Dec 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
The 55-year-old chef is famous for his expletive-laden mocking of food. Now he’s taking TikTok by storm.
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KFC Under The Microscope After Another Maggot Chicken Video
17 Nov 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
Another video is doing the rounds on social media, allegedly showing a clump of maggots wriggling around inside a piece of KFC chicken.
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