This is a way to learn more about African food and also to support a small cookery school by using their facilities on a Saturday morning.

You are collected from your hotel at approx 9.30am and travel to the township of Langa to enjoy a short cooking workshop at a small cookery school that provides the local residents with the skills needed to get jobs in the kitchens of the top hotels in Cape Town.

The morning begins with a welcome drink and a talk on African cuisine. You then go into a hands-on cooking lesson where you learn to cook dishes like pap (similar to polenta), chakalaka and samp.

Afterwards you sample the dishes that you’ve helped to prepare in the schools restaurant and have the opportunity to taste a few other dishes that have been prepared in the restaurant.

The course runs every Saturday from 10am to 2pm and you arrive back at your hotel by approx 2.30pm.