6 reasons why craft beer is the healthier choice

6 reasons why craft beer is the healthier choice

Craft beer is like the sun. No, we haven’t elevated it to deity status and now worship it like Ra (although we’re sure there were pagan Germanic tribes that used to). No, we mean that like the sun, craft beer, in measured doses, can be the healthy vitamin your body...
Eat with your eyes and make a colour salad

Eat with your eyes and make a colour salad

Colour salads is a phrase that tends to tumble from the lips of many a visitor to Babylonstoren‘s Babel restaurant. It’s one of their simplest and loveliest odes to the gardens they grow. By focusing on colour first, they’ve taught us how to listen to the seasons and...
Why Beer is Better

Why Beer is Better

I was approached to write the argument for why beer is better for the Superbalist Beer vs Wine debate in The Way of Us while heading up the League of Beers crafty content. They wanted a woman’s opinion who actually drank beer. This is what they got. “If she...
How to make a gingerbread house

How to make a gingerbread house

Feeling advent-urous this Christmas? Why not dive into a long-standing European tradition and build your very own gingerbread house. You can make your house as intricate as the boundaries of your creativity allow but here’s a simple one to start off with. Here’s how...
Karen from Babylonstoren shares her beetroot bread

Karen from Babylonstoren shares her beetroot bread

There are some places you visit, some foods that you have the pleasure of tasting, that never leave your memories. On our visit to Babylonstoren last year, we had the privilege of being invited into Karen Pretorius, head baker’s kitchen. Amid learning about the gentle...