Food-light-writers

Introducing the Foodlightwriters team:

(In order of the pictures from the left hand corner)

Since the age of 7 I wanted to be a chef. My passion for cooking started with me helping my mom in the kitchen. I'd always give her a hand where I could, even if it was just to break eggs into a bowl for her...Little did I know that it was there where the foundation of my cheffing career was built.

In 2011 I packed my bags and came to the beautiful Cape Wine lands to start my studies at the ICA.

My food philosophies are:
To use only the freshest produce and ingredients.
Only to use good quality meat.
I believe in 'nose to tail' cooking.
Never stop learning from anybody.
It is about the food and customer not just money.

I am a chef with passion, dedication and the desire to make a name for myself in the industry one day! Follow me and join me in my growth within the industry…

-Gourmet Garth

To be lady like when confronted with food is difficult.  It might even be near to impossible.  When a tall, dark cake covered with a glistering chocolate ganaché  is placed in front of me, I can honestly say that a thought such as ‘I want to put my face in it’ is probably passing through my mind. 

As a Chef I’ve been trained and become accustomed to fine dining etiquette, foams and spheres and 14 smaller portions rather than a Sunday roast – all aspects that add to my admiration for the art of fine dining.  Yet I am also captivated by the beauty of a simple raw candy striped beetroot, without all the make-up chefs can paint on it.

However presented, for me it comes down to this:  Food is the only art form that entices all five the senses. It is the experiences with food that entrance me, that make me utterly in love with food.  So please pardon me if I am sometimes not too lady like when it comes to food, for I want to know that I’ve experienced food in all its forms and facets and indulged in my love… my food.

-Lady Liezl

 

 

artist. naturalist. lover of delectable things.

Food is Love,

Love is All.

My aspirations include seeing the world in all its tastes, textures, smells and sounds and to make my life - a living work of art.

It is good to be aware of the feel of the world around you.

It is good to see the world through the lens of beauty.

Showering in salted caramel? Yes please.

-Exquisite Elsebe

I have a great love for good food- if it is off the braai, at a sit down dinner in an excellent restaurant, or even to indulge in a nice cold apple. 

One thing that I have to get used to is being able to get produce from my garden. To select the perfect vegetable and pulling it out of the ground to see how gorgeous it is, has a certain thrill to it.

My love for pastry and desserts come first in the kitchen.  I enjoy working cold section as well as larder section, but pastry section is my love. Pastry and desserts are like the round off to the perfect meal.

My heart lies in the kitchen.  I love the thrill of the kitchen and all the adrenaline. The kitchen becomes your home and the people become your family. Food is definitely my passion in life.

-Lovely Lize

Being a chef was what I dreamed about for most of my life- or rather, being a pastry chef. My family refers to me as the ‘Queen of Cakes’, because my life literally revolves around eggs, flour, sugar and butter- the key ingredients to making any kind of cake, cupcake, tart or pastry.

Baking takes time, concentration, patience and sometimes a lot of effort, or as we were taught in chef school, the 4 P’s of pastry- persistence, patience, perfection and precision. It is a form of art that I find comfort in.

To know me you need to know that I can be a very stubborn person- just like a cake can be when the icing doesn’t want to set or the meringue just does not want to fluff enough. Thus we need to reach an agreement- which of course always has to come from my side. I mean, can you see a cake understand a humans mind?

I’m very enthusiastic and eager to learn. I try to rather see the positive in life and enjoy challenges immensely. I’m a sensitive person (although you should probably not say this when you are a chef) and of course....I am in love with food!

The contentment that a piece of freshly baked bread with farm butter can give you is immense. The satisfaction that you get when people eat your food and cannot get enough is marvellous. The glee a single cupcake can give you is mind-boggling.

I call myself Marvellous Mareli, because the concept that food brings people together, is absolutely marvellous.

-Marvellous Mareli