Two prominent chefs join Durban's Good Food & Wine Show

Jenny Morris and Benny Masekwameng

They will form the local culinary contingent who will be joining forces at the show with BBC TV personality and celebrity chef James Martin, vegan baking queen Ms Cupcake, and Anjali Pathak and Vivek Singh, two Indian chefs who have helped change the Indian food landscape.

Benny and Jenny

MasterChef South Africa judge Benny Masekwameng has a special affinity with KwaZulu-Natal and Durban in particular. The popular chef, who has captured the hearts of South African television viewers with his wide and warm smile and who has become something of a national treasure, studied catering management at what was then the Natal Technikon. He also met his wife in the city.

Masekwameng will be demonstrating at one of the show's exciting new theatres, Sishebo, which is one of the areas that celebrates the province's diverse cultures. Leading chefs from well-known townships and local cultural restaurants, famous for their delicious stews and using the full array of traditional canned products as essential ingredients, will be making the perfect sishebo.

Jenny Morris, who is well-known to followers as The Giggling Gourmet, is a warm, friendly personality whose commitment to the food industry comes through in her books, her TV shows and in her radio slot. She has had an on-going love affair with food since she was a child, when she started making mouth-watering treats for school fundraisers. It is a love affair in the true sense of the word, one that employs all the senses.

Talking about preparing and cooking her dishes, Morris says that, apart from taste and aroma, touch is also an important facet. "Feeling your food is important," she says. "Caress it, stroke it, and know it intimately."

Tickets for the show cost R75 for adults and R40 for children, and are available from Computicket. For more information, go to www.goodfoodandwineshow.co.za.