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Tom Perkins_Spices and Spandex

The Nomadic Kitchen presents: Spices and Spandex, the cookbook

Contemplating an adventure this year? Take a leaf out of Spices and Spandex, a cookbook for the adventurous, the free, the curious. Delve into the culinary adventures of two young men who cycled 20 000km from London to Cape Town, experiencing some of the richest and most diverse food cultures and recipes in the world.

Angama Mara omelette

She’s back in the kitchen!

The food Nicky Fitzgerald, owner at Angama Mara safari lodge, can fling together at a rate of knots makes most people stare in awe.

Autumn leaves falling_Elephant Gin

Elephant Gin, anyone?

There are so many of us in the world that readily confess to a deep love for gin and tonic. What if one could harness this collective passion, the world over, and turn it into something good? Robin Gerlach and Tessa Wienker travelled through Africa in 2011 and had exactly this thought.

Beverly Joubert’s Safari Essentials

‘I am passionate about creating an image that tells a complete story in one instant, one frame.’

Beverly Joubert lives and breathes Africa and its wild open places. When she’s out there, these are the 6 ‘must-haves’ she keeps by her side.

Black Mambas: Women protecting wildlife

‘You strike a woman, you strike a rock,’ were the words sung by hundreds of women as they marched to the Union Buildings on the 9th August 1956. Although that was 60 years ago, these words still ring true. Nowhere more so than in Balule Nature Reserve, where the Black Mamba all-women anti-poaching unit operates.