About this foodie

Cape Town, May 2010
My Mom always says that there are people who live to eat, and people who eat to live… I am delighted to say that I have always been the former. I currently live in Cape Town. In the Southern Suburbs. Which some might say doesn’t count as Cape Town, particularly as we’re in Noordhoek, which does seem to be a little world of it’s own! They say you need a bag of lentils to cross over the mountain road into Noordhoek from Cape Town because we’re all a bit farmy over here! Whoever the heck they are.
What you’ll find on this blog are humble but well-loved ‘close to the earth’ no mess no fuss recipes that pretty much anyone can cook. And also, in the Restaurant Reviews section, a small but growing guide to where to eat out in Cape Town for really good food (in my humble opinion of course).

And then there’s Rob
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He’s my legendary husband. A regular bloke (well, way above regular in many ways, that’s why I married him) in the sense that he loves food, rugby, fishing, beer, wine, all that blokey stuff. And he’s our resident taster. He’s super fun to feed as he’ll honestly try anything, and he has his own repertoire of recipes that would blow your socks off. Seriously. I won’t even attempt to make his very special fillet flambee because I’m gun-shy after my one misrable attempt, so you’ll have to wait for him to guest star and hand over the secret himself.

And if you have any thoughts or comments along the way, I’d love to hear from you! Or of you have any recipes you’d like me to trial, out of sheer altruism and consideration for the general public of course, send them my way and I’ll see what I can do.

Sarah Graham
Email Me! afoodieliveshere AT gmail DOT com

Post Script – Johannesburg, December 2011
Rob, baby Sophie and I are now living in Johannesburg, along with all that that entails. I wrote a little more about it here.

afoodieliveshere In the Media
I know, how tiresome, the bragging blurb. I’m afraid it has to be done for various reasons, so just skip on over to the fun stuff if you’re not interested.

I feel beyond honoured to have a cook book, entitled bitten.  in stores in South Africa and online as of February 2012, published by the wonderful people over at RandomhouseStruik South Africa. You can read more about it here and, should you wish, you can even buy it here.

You can read the write-up of my very exciting (and butterflies-in-my-tummy-inducing) Book Launch in March 2012 here.

ON THE MAGAZINE RACK
– Pick n’ Pay’s FRESH LIVING Magazine did a lovely write up in their March 2012 issue.
– Food & Home Magazine featured ‘bitten.’ in their ‘Books for Cooks’ section of their March 2012 issue.
– The Woolworths TASTE Magazine featured ‘bitten.’ as their Book of the Month in their April 2012 issue, and also online here.
Here’s a little something they had to say via Twitter “We love it. Breath of fresh air in the world of stuffy-kitchen cookery books”
– We also cracked the nod from the April ELLE Magazine (!) and Fair Lady “We love her easy, approachable cooking style” (thanks guys!)
– Garden & Home Magazine has a beautiful spread for their May ‘Home Entertaining’ feature, with pics and recipes from a real lunch party at my home.
– HEAT Magazine featured ‘bitten.’ as their book of the month for May 2012.
– Woman & Home Magazine very kindly featured ‘bitten.’ as their book of the month for June 2012.

ONLINE
I also love being a guest blogger for South African Getaway Magazine‘s fabulous and award winning blog. Have a look and see why I feel cool by association here.

Nina Timm, one of my blogging heroines and the mastermind behind the renowned South African food blog My Easy Cooking recently featured me on her radio show with the South African radio station RSG. This is a really exciting foodie outlet for Afrikaans foodies. See the post here and more recently, here where she talks about my book and has also done a give-away.

Some of my favourite people in foodie-paraphernalia land are the every-inspiring gang over at Yuppiechef They take incredible service to a whole new level and I got a huge kick out of being featured in their monthly Spatula Online Magazine. Here‘s one of the posts.

One of my best SA food websites for everything from recipes to shopping and restaurant reviews is Eat In and they were kind enough to feature my book recently (here) along with my very precious 6 Minute Chocolate Cake Recipe (here).

The very lovable food nerds over at NOMU recently wrote a beautiful (and, might I add, rather thought-provoking) review on my book here.

I’ve recently joined the foodsters over at Food24.com and am having a whale of a time blogging about epicurean adventures in Jozi, take a look over here.

ON THE AIRWAVES
I loved my foodie stints on The Lunch Show with Josie & Luca – two of Cape Town’s hottest radio peeps who are taking the cyber airwaves by storm. Two Oceans Vibe Radio is SA’s only online station and it’s listened to by fans and aficionados around the globe. You can even pick up a couple of my podcasts here and here.

14 Feb 2012
I had fun foodie chats with Nicky and her team over at Joburg’s ChaiFM, and we enjoyed some quirky call-in’s as well as sharing the recipe for my 6 Minute Chocolate Cake with all the listeners. You can listen to the podcast here.

17 Feb 2012
I feel so honoured to have chatted with the ever-inspiring Jenny Crwys-Williams on Talk Radio 702 on her show ‘The Friday Mix’.
Website: http://www.702.co.za/shows/fridaymix.asp
Archive: Click to listen

February 2012

Blog Header Images are thanks to the wonderful and talented Lisa Clark (food stylist) and Warren Heath (photographer) who I had the pleasure and privilege of working with on the shoot for ‘bitten.’