Join us for a fun and interactive junior cooking demonstration where young food lovers can get hands-on and let their creativity shine. Inspired by recipes from a variety of children’s cookbooks, this session offers a playful and accessible approach to cooking. From simple treats to colourful dishes, children will learn new skills, explore flavours, and experience the joy of making food. This engaging experience encourages young chefs to experiment with confidence and develop a lasting love for cooking.
genre: Cookbook
Kids Kitchen
Join us for a fun and interactive junior cooking demonstration where young food lovers can get hands-on and let their creativity shine. Inspired by recipes from a variety of children’s cookbooks, this session offers a playful and accessible approach to cooking. From simple treats to colourful dishes, children will learn new skills, explore flavours and experience the joy of making food. This engaging experience encourages young chefs to experiment with confidence and develop a lasting love for cooking.
No Thank You to Obesity
No Thank You to Obesity is a practical, South African calorie-counting guide designed to make sustainable weight loss simple and realistic. The 200-page book walks you through the process of calculating your own daily calorie needs, helping you understand exactly how to create a calorie deficit that fits your lifestyle, without strict dieting or confusion. The book focuses on real food, flexibility, and building long-term habits rather than restrictive dieting.
Marinda Engelbrecht, Chané Bothma (RD, SA), and Lindie Mosehuus (RD, SA), leading clinical experts, share their insights in this calorie-counting guide and recipe book.
KoesterKuier
At the festival, audiences can look forward to a warm and inviting long-table dining experience where they can gather with Frik de Jager, share stories, and celebrate food together. The ticket includes a full four-course meal, served as part of the event — a true StorieKos experience where good food and great company come together.
Frik de Jager is a well-known chef, food writer, and storyteller, and has been a regular guest on RSG’s Klets en Kook since 2018. He has also appeared on programmes such as Kwêla, BRAVO, and Groot Ontbyt, and hosts the popular Sjefstafel on kykNET. In 2024, he published StorieKos, followed by KoesterKos in 2025, both already in their second print runs. He hosts StorieKosKuier long-table dinners in Rietfontein and regularly appears as a guest speaker at festivals and events.
Damn Good Food
Social media sensation Fehmz explodes onto the cookbook scene with recipes as bold and unapologetic as she is. Her debut cookbook, Damn Good Food, brings the playful, flavour-packed meals she is famous for from screen to page, featuring over 80 recipes. Think mutton akhni, mince curry and coconut pudding, but also fun twists such as chilli-bite waffles, karak ice cream, kataifi millefeuille, and her flavour-boosting magic masala and red dynamite sauce. Her infectious energy turns everyday cooking into an adventure.
Fehmz is a city girl from Johannesburg, chasing her dreams as a food, lifestyle, and travel influencer. She is a firm believer in keeping things authentic. Her vibrant personality infuses every recipe with energy, colour, and bold flavours inspired by her Muslim heritage. Energetic, colourful, and bubbly, Fehmz loves tea and sharing the simple things in life. She is married with two children.
