Food – Where private and public intersect
By Angelo Fick Food represents the encounter between the private and the political, the individual and the world. Whether growing…
By Angelo Fick Food represents the encounter between the private and the political, the individual and the world. Whether growing…
When I was growing up, my parents ran a canteen in a shoe factory in Port Elizabeth. Back then, the…
Many foods, foodways and cuisines are romanticized in imaginings of community, ethnicity, national identity, family life or “the soul”. Although…
This thesis considers how factors of urbanisation and globalisation affect people’s lifestyle and food consumption choices and how this may…
The Allegory of the Vanity of the Plastic Spoon by Coral Bijoux is an excerpt from the Dreams as R-evolution body of…
The above artworks are reflections on my honours research on maize consumption. Maize and maize meal hold a deeply sentimental…
In my mother’s back yard washing snapsabove chillies and wild rosemary.Kapokbos, cottonwool bush, my tongue softenson the rosemary’s other name.Aubergine,…
Step one: my father takes a piece of fish and hooks it on the line, feeds it to the sea…
So here’s the thing:Women don’t feel hungry. One hears, in fact,That among someThe culture of skipping tea and breakfast,And going…
My grandmother was a guardian,tending a kingdom of cabbages.Leafy, layered planets in constant orbit emasimini.uMamBhele was a general, rearing battalion…