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Home hosted dinners are a great way to enjoy home cooked meals with local people. A welcome addition to any itinerary, Homes of Africa co-ordinates a host family for your guests so that they can experience typical South African cuisine and wine with South African families and especially learn about life in South Africa. Enjoy a home-cooked meal while talking about the way of life in the new South Africa and exchange views as well as experiences with local cultures. You will enjoy an authentic home cooked meal including many dishes typical to South Africa in a relaxed and comfortable environment, with fascinating conversation, and all prepared by your host family. LUNCH Service : 3-course, with soft drinks, mineral water, coffee/teas. FIT R275pp all inclusive (driver/guide no charge) roughly $40 pp DINNER Service : 3-course, with soft drinks, mineral water, coffee/teas AND white or red wine. FIT : R295pp all inclusive (driver/guide no charge roughly $43pp Optional : Cultural Activity (Choir, Poetry etc) - $90 per evening
TYPICAL MENU HOME-HOSTED DINNERS PROVIDED BY HOMES OF AFRICA
TYPICAL 3-COURSE, HOME-HOSTED DINNER MENUSTARTERS
Samoosas or Savoury Pies or SoupMAIN COURSE
Bobotie
Served with yellow rice and seasonal veggies Or Frikkadels with Smoor Tomato
Served with mashed potato and seasonal veggies DESSERT
Home made Sago Pudding served with custard EXTRAS
Mineral Water, Juice, Beer, Wine, Mints, Coffee and Tea There are sections of Commander Jan van Riebeeck's wild almond hedge still standing in the Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town. The farm changed the region forever. The Company discovered it was easier to bring in thousands of hapless slaves from Java to work in the fields than to keep trying to entrap the local people, mostly Khoi and San, who seemed singularly unimpressed with the Dutch and their ways. The Malay slaves brought their cuisine, perhaps the best-known of all South African cooking styles. It was the search for food that shaped modern South Africa: spices drew the Dutch East India Company to Java in the mid-1600s, and the need for a halfway refreshment stop for its ships rounding the Cape impelled the Company to plant a farm at the tip of Africa. There are sections of Commander Jan van Riebeeck's wild almond hedge still standing in the Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town. The French Huguenots arrived soon after the Dutch, and changed the landscape in wonderful ways with the vines they imported. They soon discovered a need for men and women to work in their vineyards, and turned to the Malay slaves (and the few Khoi and San they could lure into employment). Much later, sugar farmers brought indentured labourers from India to cut the cane. The British, looking for gold and empire, also brought their customs and cuisine, as did German immigrants. Black communities carried on eating their traditional, healthy diet: game, root vegetables and wild greens, berries, millet, sorghum and maize, and protein-rich insects like locusts. Today the resultant kaleidoscope - the famous "rainbow" - applies not only to the people but to the food, for one finds in South Africa the most extraordinary range of cuisines.
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