Ishay Govender
Ishay Govender is an award-winning freelance food and travel journalist who wisely abandoned a career in commercial law in the pursuit of cultural immersion and air miles. Now, she wanders (follow on Instagram) gathering stories, ingredients and second-hand books that threaten to take over her house. Home is Cape Town, for a few weeks at a stretch. Ishay launched her writing career with a series of tweets in 2010 and has a fondness for the micro-blogging platform. This gave life to the Food and the Fabulous® website which was awarded a prize for best South African food and wine blog in 2011.
Find her stories in Saveur, Food & Wine, Extra Crispy, Nat Geo, Food 52, The National (UAE), Literary Hub, TASTE, Mail & Guardian, Food &Home Entertaining, Business Day and others. And look out for her cookbook: Curry – Stories & Recipes Across South Africa (2017).
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Across South Africa, recipes carry more than ingredients. They carry family, memory, migration, work, celebration and home. Ishay Govender travelled across all nine provinces, cooking and eating with the people whose food tells these stories.
Latest Posts
It’s Marvelous what Milo Can Do For You
Warm and delicious Entering the world of Milo - a beloved malted drink that’s an essential backdrop to so many childhoods around the world. For My Recipes, September 2018 Children in Malaysia and [...]
Eight Seats Too Many, Eight Seats Too Few
The Table Ishay Govender (@ishaygovender) Until The Day– Thanksgiving Series, for Popula, November 2018 We felt like conspiratorial knights by ordering a round dining room table, its handsome surface echoing the inlaid grain [...]
All You Need to Know about Durban Indian cuisine
Garlic, chillies and ginger, some of the vital ingredients that go into making a delicious pot of curry These are the fieriest curries in the land. But Durban Indian food isn’t confined to [...]
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