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Spier Secret Festival awards young foodie professional a trip to leading international food conference The Spier Secret Festival, an annual food and wine conference at Spier wine farm, has awarded...
View ArticleCross-continent meat prepping
We are in full production for the upcoming Spier Secret Festival and one of the big projects is the Brazilian dinner in collaboration with butcher Marcelo “Bolinha” and design and research agency...
View ArticleHannes and Guido are here!
Hannes Bernard (Netherlands / SA) and Guido Giglio (Brazil) arrived this week with lots of ingredients for our Brazilian dinner.
View ArticleSECRET DINNER: JADE DE WAAL WITH MASIPHAKAMENI WOMEN’S GROUP
The Masiphakameni Women’s Group, meaning “Let us rise” celebrated the culmination of a 3-month cooking training program facilitated by Food Jams/Jade de Waal during which they were taught to become...
View ArticleBiltong for a better world
Beef for a better world The pastured-reared beef from Spier not only tastes delicious – it also benefits the environment by helping to reduce the levels of carbon in the atmosphere. WHAT’S WRONG WITH...
View ArticleSpier Secret dinner with Herman Lensing
Herman Lensing, SARIE’s award-winning food editor, hosted a Spier Secret Dinner in his home themed Night Circus. The menu included confit duck with cauliflower, mushroom creme and truffles to 8 hour...
View ArticleCARNE DE SOL – BRAZILIAN PRESERVED DINNER
SulSolSal designed a special edition of Carne do Sol, a preserved food dining experience for Spier Secret 2014. The meal was prepared according to the traditional Brazilian way of preserving food –...
View ArticleSpier wins Drinks International Wine Tourism Award
The Spier Secret Courtyard, a wine pop-up bar concept, has just been announced winner of the Best Wine Event Category at the Drinks International Wine Tourism Awards 2015, trumping a host of competing...
View ArticleSpier partners with celebrated chef PJ Vadas
Spier is partnering with celebrated chef PJ Vadas to bring a craft bakery and café to the farm’s historic farmyard, the Werf, in spring this year. It will be housed inside the restored Jonkershuis...
View ArticleTammy Frazer’s Edible Perfume #spiersecret dinner
On Thursday evening perfumer Tammy Frazer opened our Spier Secret dinner series with her dinner themed Edible Perfume. Wrench House, a National Monument with unique Cape Dutch, Georgian and Victorian...
View Article#spiersecret partners with your own private driver, Uber
The Spier Secret team has partnered with Uber to get all guests to and from the Spier Secret Festival safely and in style! The one day conference and public market takes place from 29 to 31 October,...
View ArticleFirst Thursdays’ best kept secret
The Spier Secret Courtyard popped up at Bacon on Bree for First Thursdays Cape Town in September, offering award-winning wine from Spier’s Creative Block range of blends. We also treated the first 100...
View Article2015 Spier Secret Speaker Mariana Esterhuysen on snail hunting in the dark
The Spier Secret Festival focus in 2015 was once again on sustainability and ethical practices in preparing, supplying and presenting food but this year pushed things a step further, bringing a crack...
View Article8 Things not to miss at the Spier Secret Festival
It is almost time for the fifth annual Spier Secret Festival – and the first ever in Johannesburg on Sunday 6 November 2016. This food and wine event is a day of workshops, talks, eating and drinking...
View Article2015 Spier Secret Speaker Jackson Boxer on eating as a political act
The Spier Secret Festival focus in 2015 was once again on sustainability and ethical practices in preparing, supplying and presenting food but this year pushed things a step further, bringing a crack...
View Article2015 SPIER SECRET SPEAKER Frederik Bille Brahe on the everyday feast
The Spier Secret Festival focus in 2015 was once again on sustainability and ethical practices in preparing, supplying and presenting food but this year pushed things a step further, bringing a crack...
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