I chat to the guys from Bosman’s meats before I buy my usual trio of sausages: diablo, spicy pork sausage that I love frying up and cooking my omelette in salsiccia, a dried sausage with red wine and fennel which is really good on its own or on a cheese board and nduja, made with pork cheek.
KAMINI PATHER RECIPES TV
“This Granger Bay market is one of my favorites because it transports me into any one of the food TV shows that I grew up watching. Photo: Fiona MacPherson/Courtesy of Ozcf market
There are cafés and restaurants overlooking the square, where you can watch the scenes unfold or take a break with your bag bulging with curios.” -Ishay Govender-Ypma Related Stories Here, you can engage with charismatic vendors who enjoy a bit of banter. You can find statues, baskets, beaded jewelry, T-shirts, and a wide array of crafts which tend to be the mass-produced variety but sell at the lowest prices in the city.
Today, it’s been reclaimed by African traders and artisans from around the continent. “As the second-oldest public square in Cape Town, created in 1696, Greenmarket Square is a strip of cobblestones that once served as a slave market and, later, a fruit and vegetable market. We asked two Cape Town food authorities - Ishay Govender-Ypma, author of Curry: Stories & Recipes Across South Africa, and Kamini Pather, TV chef and winner of MasterChef South Africa: Season 2, to give us the low-down on the city’s vibrant market culture. It’s not only where Capetonians source fresh produce for the week ahead, but it’s a scene as well, with each market drawing different crowds for different reasons: delicious global food, indie fashion finds (many of the country’s top designers got their start in some of these humble markets), and live entertainment.
Markets are a big deal in the Mother City. Greenmarket Square in Cape Town, South Africa.
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