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MUSHROOM
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Mushrooms
are on the Menu
The
Mushroom Festival (7 - 23 March 2003) |
March
is most definitely the month for celebrating the immense flavour
profile, versatility and nutritional value of fresh cultivated
mushrooms. And with the festival mushrooming from restaurants
into nationwide shopping malls and supermarkets – it
will certainly not only be the some 400 + participating restaurant
chefs that will be slicing, dicing, tossing, chopping, grilling
and braaing mushrooms during this year’s festival period.
Now entering its third year, SAMFA (the South African Mushroom
Farmers’ Association), together with the South African
Chefs Association, is proud to bring all fungi fans, the Mushroom
Festival 2003!
Further additions to the Mushroom Festival 2003 and Chefs
de Cuisine Competition are the “Best Mushroom Menu Challenge”
and “Casual Dining Competition” – both aimed
at intensifying depth of flavour (especially to meatless or
reduced meat dishes), versatility and originality.
So there you have it…for absolutely mouth-watering,
scrumptiously, delectably delicious, morish mushroom cuisine,
be sure to visit your nearest participating restaurant, shopping
mall or supermarket and watch the press for further details! |
| PEPPADEW
NEWS |
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The
story of Denny’s recently acquired Peppadew business
is as intriguing and endearing as the taste of the products. |
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Pepepadew Sweet Piquante Peppers
are the first truly new fruit to be launched on the world
market since Kiwi Fruit 26 years ago. Just a few short years
back, businessman and farmer, Johan Steenkamp, was looking
around the garden of his holiday home in the Eastern Cape
in South Africa when he spotted an unusual-looking bush. It
was chest height and laden with small bright red fruit which
looked like something between miniature red peppers and cherry
tomatoes.
Gingerly, he bit into one. It had a unique, delicious taste
– a combination of peppery and sweet, but with a very
distinctive flavour. Rightly believing that he had hit upon
something really new, Johan saved seeds from the ripened fruit
of the mother plant which he called PIQUANTE. He cultivated
the seedlings, developed the secret recipe with which to process
the fruit and gave the processed fruit the name PEPPADEW.
Worldwide research, global registration of the trademarks,
international sole rights to grow the plant commercially,
the establishment of commercial Sweet Piquante Pepper farms
in the bountiful farmlands of the Tzaneen area and the building
of a special processing, bottling and packaging factory followed.
Now Peppadew Sweet Piquante Peppers are being savoured by
discerning palates around the world – from South Africa,
to Britain, Europe, Canada and as far away as Australia.
The species is believed to be a native of Central America
but where this particular bush came from, no one knows. Maybe
it was propagated by an obliging bird. Whatever its origins,
this truly unique South African product has started a culinary
adventure. |
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