FOOD: WHERE TO SOURCE SUSTAINABLY

Standing Out Magazine | NOVEMBER 2022

Ethical eating is easier than you think.

People are becoming ever more discerning about knowing exactly where their food comes from. Here are a handful of supplierswhere you can trace the entire supply chain and know that you’re eating ethically sourced (and healthier) products.

MEAT

Frankie Fenner Meat Merchants has become a Cape Town institution, and with good reason. As butchers, they are unashamed that meat comes from an animal and believe that having a relationship with your food matters. By working with passionate suppliers (the type who rear healthy, happy animals) they can be the only step between the farm and your plate to ensure that what you buy is not just something in a vacuum-sealed plastic bag. This means you have full knowledge of where your steak or leg-of-lamb comes from and can enjoy it with a clear conscience. The team at all four stores are also super knowledgeable about cooking methods and food pairings and is always up for a chat.

Website: www.ffmm.co.za

SEAFOOD

For the finest, melt-in-your-mouth cold smoked tuna and yellowtail Lalunga Seafoods is your go-to. Enjoyed as sashimi, in ceviche, salad or seared it will change how you look at fish. And all the fish are ethically, hand-caught in Western Cape waters. Lalunga is a family-owned business with a rich history in the fishing industry, marine research and conservation. The three partners –– Matt Doran and brothers JD and Nick Filmalter –– have a first-hand understanding of the challenges faced by both the oceans and those who rely on them. They focus on crafting the finest quality delicacies using only local, traceable and sustainable fish species. Their goal is to maximise the value of wild resources through proper handling and care throughout their sea-to-table approach. This ensures that everyone with a hand in the process receives their fair share of this value and in addition, they have a zero-waste production process.

Website: www.lalunga.com

SEAWEED

Want to learn how to cook with edible seaweeds, wild plants and organic produce? RE Wild Food is based out of Scarborough and offers various workshops, including guided seaweed foraging beach walks, snorkelling adventures and organic gardening. They strive to show how nutritious seaweed –– which is organic and sustainable if harvested ethically –– can be.

Website: www.rewildfood.co.za

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Order your fruit and veggies online through Think Organic and have them delivered the following week Wednesday or Thursday. Think Organic is a natural grocer with a wide range of organically grown fruit, veggies and free-range products. They began their journey in 2013 after someone close to the team fell ill, and their thoughts shifted towards a more conscious eating approach. They wanted to eat better, and know where our food came from and how it was grown. All of their products are sourced from ethical and local farmers.

Website: www.thinkorganic.co.za

DAIRY

Cream of the Crop Butter is a microdairy that sells cultured cheese, butter, double-thick yoghurt, and ghee made from grass-fed jersey cream by Maria van Zyl. Maria has a background in baking and Slow Food and applies all her experience to her products, which means that every ingredient is carefully considered and sourced and the process is unrushed. To make cultured butter (her flagship product), fresh cream is cultured/inoculated with live lactic culture and fermented. (This can take up to four days). The milk sugars, known as lactose, are fermented and converted to lactic acid, creating a thick cream from which the butter is beaten, making for a tangy, crisp and fresh butter.

Instagram: www.instagram.com/creamofthecropbutter