Gizzards and chicken hearts getting the gourmet treatment from a culinary king, art up in smoke and yummy mummies going gaga over posh prams that’s what was served up on the social scene this week.
Chef Wandile Mabaso is ridiculously low key. In an industry that has a reputation for huge egos and inflated reputations, he is almost Zen-like in his self-effacing commitment to the culinary arts and his belief in the transformative power of a national cuisine.
The much lauded chef's career has come full circle from Soweto, to New York, to Paris and now firmly back on SA soil where he's wooing his audience with his Michelin-style take on local cuisine