Being kosher is not only a choice it’s a lifestyle. The word kosher means “proper or fit” and does not only apply to hygiene and not eating pork as many think. It comes from a verse in the old testament, which states that you shall not “boil a kid in its mother’s milk” from this comes the idea of not eating milk or dairy products with meat items, so no cheese burgers and the masses ideas of kosher (kashrut).

With a new year come a lot of resolutions; some achievable and some not quite so. With the ushering in of the new Prue Leith Chef’s Academy Student Representative Council (S.R.C.) a lot of goals and plans were set. We will detail these further in this edition.

With the Academy being an internationally recognized name in the culinary education field many faces from all over the world make the journey to South Africa to study. Although we pretend to understand I’m sure not that many of us can fathom the idea of leaving South Africa and travelling to a foreign country on our own to study. This is a view from one of our many wonderful friends who has made the journey to further their studies here in SA.