Kim Maxwell loves flavours. Freshly baked sourdough. Caramelised onion and local gruyere tartlet. Portuguese-style piri-piri chicken with bite. Spicy samoosas. Thick pea and ham soup. Creamy Cap Classique Blanc de Blancs bubbly. Do me a flavour was a restaurant column created when she reviewed restaurants for The Cape Times.
Kim’s blog is dedicated to finding flavours in the Cape. For balance there will be wine on the side. She learnt at a young age that travel means opening your mind to new flavours, so occasionally she’ll be stepping outside Cape borders to do just that.
A full-time journalist working independently in Cape Town since 2000, highlights from a sixteen-year career include interviewing Robert Parker Junior in Singapore and chef Ferran Adrià at El Bulli restaurant in Spain. Kim keeps business hours while providing writing and editing services for a variety of publications and websites. The wine trade and wine tourism travel, restaurant reviews and chef profiles are special interests. She likes finding out why people make or market what they do, and where they’ve been along their journeys.
Kim is happy cooking at home, discovering details about farmers markets or new cafes, and enjoying the hospitality of foodies and winemakers she knows. Winery and Cape Town restaurant events fairly often, but also discovering produce or new eating spots in her own time, bills paid of course. Fancy fine dining. Simple cafe snacks. Delicious country produce. And sometimes shortcut convenience food. With busy working lifestyles, who doesn’t?