Kitchen Notes
The Long Table in Riebeek-Kasteel
Three farming families cook one Saturday lunch from whatever the surrounding gardens gave that week. Reported over two seasons, with the drought years included.
Open the featureWhat partners actually get from working with us
Partners are usually small operations: a roastery in Greyton, a bookshop in Durban, a walking guide on the Garden Route. What they need is not reach for its own sake, but readers who stay long enough to remember a name. That is the part we can honestly offer.
Placement inside real reporting
Your name sits in a feature that took weeks to research, not in a banner. A Weekend Drives piece on the N9 or a Kitchen Notes column on Boland preserves carries more weight than a sidebar, and readers treat it that way.
A regional readership, not a generic one
Our list skews toward Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng readers who follow specific towns and makers. If your work is tied to a place, that geography does more for you than a broad national push.
Photography you can reuse
Documentary shoots from a feature or photo journal are shared back with partners for their own shop windows, menus and print. Several collaborators still use frames from shoots three years old.
A slower, longer shelf life
Essays and archive pages keep getting read months after publication, unlike a feed post. A studio profile from last winter still sends visitors through to the maker's own site today.
Editorial control stays with us
We do not run copy written by the partner. You get a say on facts, names and dates, and we keep the writing. It is the reason readers trust what appears under a partner's name here.
If you want to see how a partnership reads in practice, start with a recent feature from the archive or write to us through the contact page.