Hello from South Africa

[heylow]

Hi everyone

 

I'm excited to join the eGullet forums and chat about ingredients, cooking and food culture! I'm a bit obsessed with Chinese, Japanese and Italian cooking and I absolutely love cookbooks (that I really see as reference manuals for culture, history and technique....so can be considered academic texts?). I'm hoping to learn a lot from these forums and make some new friends too. 

[Shelby]

Welcome!

[kayb]

Glad to have you! Are you by chance in Durban? Had friends who spent several years there.

[ElsieD]

Welcome to the forum!

[TdeV]

Hello @heylow. Lots of fascinating folk here at eGullet–hope you soon make friends. Here's a good place to start Dinner 2022

Welcome!

[Kim Shook]

Welcome to eGullet, @heylow!  Lots of folks here share your interests and we'd love to see some local to you food, also!  

[heylow]

On 1/28/2022 at 5:52 PM, kayb said:

Glad to have you! Are you by chance in Durban? Had friends who spent several years there.

I'm in Pretoria but I was born in Durban and grew up in Kwa-Zulu Natal (Durban is the provincial capital)  I love it there. Did your friends enjoy their time there?

 

Thanks for the welcome everyone!

[kayb]

They did. They were there about eight years, and their youngest son was born there.

[Smithy]

Let me add my welcome to the others'. My best friend and her husband spent 8 or 10 years in Capetown and I was able to visit there. Beautiful! I'll love reading about your food, cookery, and perhaps how it changes with the seasons.