Refurbishing a traditional house

I received a call from Mark, who owns a game farm outside Mokopane in the North West. Six years ago, I designed his hunter’s lodge and tourist complexes.

How to make a perfect cup of coffee

‘Oh, give me a cup of that marvellous stuff’, goes the song. Without it nothing – not even this story – would get written on time …

A holiday home in Zimbabwe

Dear Jonno We have just returned from our annual family holiday in Zimbabwe and because the family has grown, we need to have a homestead...

Designing a five-star lodge

Jonno designs a bush lodge catering for 16 five-star sleeper units for Socrates all the way in Angola.

Baklava: a touch of Greek, Turkish & Lebanese

This startling set of textures, flavours and aromas brings new meaning to that morning espresso. Sweet and crunchy baklava is more than a baked confection – it’s a subtle dessert...

A dream home on the West Coast

Dear Jonno My husband and I have recently acquired a plot in a rural area of the Western Cape west coast. The area, however, has...

Pasta with eggs, bacon & leeks

Pasta is a gift to the beginner cook. Here’s the faintly exotic input of Italian cuisine, married to the familiar and highly-desired flavours of eggs, bacon and leeks.

A low-maintenance, affordable beach house

Dear Jonno Could you please help us with ideas on an ideal beach house that is affordable and easy to maintain? Our plot is 600m2 and...

Hummus

Agriculture, that most noble of the sciences, came to life in the Middle East. One of the first crops was chickpeas, which means that hummus has a long history. Here...