FAMILY MEAL: IPAPA, ILAYISI NENYAMA / PAP, RYS & VLEIS
Presented in collaboration with Chef Mmabatho Molefe.
Night Two, as captured by Aftersune.
Hosted at Lemkus Exchange.
Guests were welcomed with Spier Wine Farm Signature MCC 2023 before moving through a series of immersive rooms designed to honour three humble ingredients: pap, rice and meat.
A pause and cleanse initiated the evening — a sensory palate cleanser inviting guests to reset from visual, auditory and emotional noise. To imagine, you must first erase.
The journey unfolded through:
– The Bread & Tallow Room, where beef tallow candles melted into corn bread.
– The Rice Memory Room, centred around breyani, spice packs to recreate it at home, and a magnifying glass revealing each guest’s name on a single grain of rice.
– Ushatini (smoor jellies) served with pap waffles.
– A tablecloth zine published especially for the dinner.
– A corn-themed fortune teller game.
Dishes included tuna crudo with candied beef tongue — an ode to Ryan Cole — pap/vleis, and vegetable breyani, paired with Spier Wine Farm Seaward Shiraz 2023.
The evening closed at the candy bar: bananas, eggs, blue sherbet and cigarettes — nostalgic, playful, slightly subversive.
An exploration of memory, material and meaning.
Food as culture. Food as archive. Food as design.
FAMILY MEAL: IPAPA, ILAYISI NENYAMA / PAP, RYS & VLEIS
Presented in collaboration with Chef Mmabatho Molefe.
Night Two, as captured by Aftersune.
Hosted at Lemkus Exchange.
Guests were welcomed with Spier Wine Farm Signature MCC 2023 before moving through a series of immersive rooms designed to honour three humble ingredients: pap, rice and meat.
A pause and cleanse initiated the evening — a sensory palate cleanser inviting guests to reset from visual, auditory and emotional noise. To imagine, you must first erase.
The journey unfolded through:
– The Bread & Tallow Room, where beef tallow candles melted into corn bread.
– The Rice Memory Room, centred around breyani, spice packs to recreate it at home, and a magnifying glass revealing each guest’s name on a single grain of rice.
– Ushatini (smoor jellies) served with pap waffles.
– A tablecloth zine published especially for the dinner.
– A corn-themed fortune teller game.
Dishes included tuna crudo with candied beef tongue — an ode to Ryan Cole — pap/vleis, and vegetable breyani, paired with Spier Wine Farm Seaward Shiraz 2023.
The evening closed at the candy bar: bananas, eggs, blue sherbet and cigarettes — nostalgic, playful, slightly subversive.
An exploration of memory, material and meaning.
Food as culture. Food as archive. Food as design.
FAMILY MEAL: IPAPA, ILAYISI NENYAMA / PAP, RYS & VLEIS
Presented in collaboration with Chef Mmabatho Molefe.
Night Two, as captured by Aftersune.
Hosted at Lemkus Exchange.
Guests were welcomed with Spier Wine Farm Signature MCC 2023 before moving through a series of immersive rooms designed to honour three humble ingredients: pap, rice and meat.
A pause and cleanse initiated the evening — a sensory palate cleanser inviting guests to reset from visual, auditory and emotional noise. To imagine, you must first erase.
The journey unfolded through:
– The Bread & Tallow Room, where beef tallow candles melted into corn bread.
– The Rice Memory Room, centred around breyani, spice packs to recreate it at home, and a magnifying glass revealing each guest’s name on a single grain of rice.
– Ushatini (smoor jellies) served with pap waffles.
– A tablecloth zine published especially for the dinner.
– A corn-themed fortune teller game.
Dishes included tuna crudo with candied beef tongue — an ode to Ryan Cole — pap/vleis, and vegetable breyani, paired with Spier Wine Farm Seaward Shiraz 2023.
The evening closed at the candy bar: bananas, eggs, blue sherbet and cigarettes — nostalgic, playful, slightly subversive.
An exploration of memory, material and meaning.
Food as culture. Food as archive. Food as design.
