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Dear friends I was fascinated to discover that recently in Turkey, a 5000 year old Küllüoba bread recipe has gone viral, with local consumers now lining up to taste modern interpretations of an ancient dough featuring ancestral ingredients like emmer wheat, and...

Dear friends The World Union of Wholesale Markets (WUWM) conference, held in Joburg this May, was a fascinating event, filled with an extremely wide range of global stakeholders and an impressive range of activity, and conversations. It was a generally bigger and...

Dear friends You don’t win the Currie Cup in May, they used to say, a long time ago, when May marked the start of the South African rugby season. Nowadays, of course, there is no such thing as a rugby season in South Africa. Our teams play all year round, including...

Dear friends I celebrated my 60th birthday this March. The days surrounded by family, friends and colleagues were amazing, and have already slotted very firmly into the ‘life-long memories’ category. But there was also a stark reality lurking: that disconcerting...

Dear friends South Africa’s farmers have been in the global headlines in 2025, for all sorts of reasons. I know I am not alone when I say it has been a pretty strange experience to observe how our community is being represented in the international media: very...

Dear friends The new year is off to a fast start, and I’m sure for many of us that early January feeling of a fresh beginning is already fading. Which is a little ironic, as we work in an industry that is inherently fresh, and healthy. Even so, the pressures of...

Dear friends According to a recent article in The Atlantic, in 1976 40% of American high school students had read at least six books during a calendar year. In 2024, that number is now 1%. Reading has always played a huge part in my personal and professional life,...