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…
Food as healing: building resilience
When I was growing up, my parents ran a canteen in a shoe factory in Port Elizabeth. Back then, the…
Re-thinking “Soul Food”: An online Panel Discussion
Many foods, foodways and cuisines are romanticized in imaginings of community, ethnicity, national identity, family life or “the soul”. Although…
A Closer look at Black South African Women’s lifestyle and food consumption choices and the effects of globalisation in contemporary South Africa
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
The Allegory of the Vanity of the Plastic Spoon by Coral Bijoux is an excerpt from the Dreams as R-evolution body of…
Maize
The above artworks are reflections on my honours research on maize consumption. Maize and maize meal hold a deeply sentimental…
My Tongue Softens On The Other Name
In my mother’s back yard washing snapsabove chillies and wild rosemary.Kapokbos, cottonwool bush, my tongue softenson the rosemary’s other name.Aubergine,…
The Fish System
Step one: my father takes a piece of fish and hooks it on the line, feeds it to the sea…
Hunger
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…
Mambhele’s Harvest
My grandmother was a guardian,tending a kingdom of cabbages.Leafy, layered planets in constant orbit emasimini.uMamBhele was a general, rearing battalion…