The taste of home. The taste of childhood, of friends playing under the sky, with no care in the world. Eating is not just about taste; all your five senses are involved. A study found out that 53% of people tend to remember how the food tastes as they travelled, and another study discovered that our brains associate food memories with a time and place. Chef Shimmy, the hero behind the new menus really hit home with this one!

As I listened to, and then read and reread the 2023 State of the Nation Address – the memories of all the times my parent’s dropped “the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing”ran through my mind, as did its biblical origin.

Albert Einstein is rumoured to have said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”. 3 months ago at an event hosted by Wits School of Governance – the last time the South African Reserve Bank increased interest rates – Governor Lesetja Kganyago asserted “We hear your cries… We do not derive joy from people losing their houses and their cars…”. He further inferred that short-term “pains” are necessary to prevent the “erosion” of our income in the medium term.