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| The Sour Fig Deli is starting to take shape in Walmer Estate; a vibrant and colorful neighborhood. Me |
Hello, I’m back.
Yip, it seems a long time ago that I last wrote a blog, but
we all know that, ‘that life stuff' sometimes gets in the way of very very
important things, like writing a blog.
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| The front door - branding to come Me |
Anyhow, I’m very excited to tell you that my friend Stef and
I are getting ready to open a deli in Walmer Estate, Cape Town. It’ll be called
SOUR FIG DELI and when it opens is a mystery even to us. What I can tell you is I’m
inspired and scared at the same time.
Stef rented our (Mans and my) old office and turned the
garage into an industrial kitchen to cater of his food markets. Then came the
deli idea and ever since we have been plotting, planning and occasionally
butting heads, but our rather idealistic vision is coming together in tiny
increments.
We hope to be as true to our ideal of being as kind to the
earth as possible by following the current food trend of serving meals that are
as regional / local and seasonal. In fact we plan to take it a step further
by trying to encourage our local community to supply us with as much produce as
possible from their own gardens. What would make us unique is that everyday
we hope to have a foraged item on our chalkboard menu.
The one pledge we’ll make from the day we open is to have
zero waste. This will require organization and effort. Earthworm farms, bokasi
and composting will deal with the bio waste, while glass, plastic, tin and paper
will be taken regularly down to the local recycling plant. Ok, I know it’s a
bit premature, but if all goes well, sometime in the future we even hope to
have a diesel tuk tuk to do our collections, recycling trips and general
running around. A real exciting part is that we hope the tuk tuks diesel will
be bio diesel recycled from Sprung (Stef's food market business) and from the
deli.
I know I know, it’s all rather hippy, but I was born in the sixties and am a hippy at heart.
Watch this space..........
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| The inside is coming along too Me |
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| Foraged succulents Me |
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| Nothing like a bit of graffiti to give us an urban feel Me |
