When Judy Badenhorst, one of the grande dames of the South African food scene, came to my shop for the first time, I felt as though the South African Alice Waters herself had come to visit! Judy began the beloved Old Cape Farmstall – that epicentre of reliably amazing foodstuffs – deep in the ’80s when we South Africans, in apartheid isolation, knew little of ciabatta or balsamic vinegar, celeriac, whole artichokes or tarragon vinegar! I want to honour her zest for life, an
