Mimi Jardim

Author, TV personality and home-cookery expert Mimi Jardim was born in Portugal and moved to South Africa when she was a child. Well-known in cookery circles and vastly experienced, Mimi has taught home economics at colleges and schools, run her own school of cookery and published four cookbooks, including the highly successful Cooking the Portuguese Way in South Africa. She has also travelled the world promoting the peri-peri flavours of Nando’s, South Africa’s iconic peri-peri chicken restaurants. Mimi lives in Johannesburg with her husband, Augusto, and has four children and one grandchild.