Jeanri Verster

Jeanri Verster is the owner of Cooking Up A Storm Culinary Experiences, the first culinary school in South Africa to offer customised on-site one-on-one culinary lessons.  Over the past 15 years, she has trained hundreds of students.

"For as long as I can remember, I've had an insatiable hunger to learn more about the ingredients, cooking methods and traditions of different cuisines with a proudly South African heritage.  I have travelled to foodie destinations such as France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the US to learn as much as I could by tasting their authentic dishes.  Also their cheese, wine, bread, chocolate and pastries!  I loved to try out new recipes and to experiment with new ingredients. Over the years, I've developed my style of recipe writing. I write about local and international trends that relate to food in some or other way, cool kitchen gadgets, cool food products, cool foodie events, etc."