Food and drink
Cape Town food
In Cape Town people eat pickled fish on Good Friday, drink boeber on the 15th night of Ramadan and braai snoek through the winter. Here you can read where each dish came from and who cooks it, and find recipes on other sites that we trust.
Drinks
What Cape Town eats
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Drinks
Pinotage
Abraham Perold crossed Pinot Noir with Cinsaut at Stellenbosch in 1924, and South Africa's own red grape is now made light and fruity or rich and oaked.
Where it comes fromPhoto: Doris Schneider, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof - 76833 Siebeldingen, GERMANY, CC BY-SA 4.0
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