The latest instalment of BabylonSTORIES features executive chef Schalk Vlok in conversation from the kitchen of the 19th-century farmhouse at Soetmelkvlei. It is a fitting setting for a chef whose cooking is rooted in time-honoured classics and shaped by the fresh abundance of the farm’s fields, orchards, gardens and animals.

Schalk is happiest away from the spotlight – surrounded by loved ones, watching the sun go down, with roosterkoek hot from the coals.

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