LADY DAY PRESENTS : ATTAYA

ABOUT

ATTAYA

An intimate evening to share in food, music and stories with host and Food Researcher, Langelihle ‘Lady Day’ Mthembu.

Attaya honours both food and sonics as intimate foundations of community and friendship. Our taste buds and ears exploding from deliciousness and hearts melting from the joy of good company.

This will be a 4 course Nguni & Asian fusion celebrating the ways, styles and behaviors of food.

Music Selectors :

DIDDY Q

ARI

BACKSTORY

The Name:

ATTAYA is a Senegalese tea ceremony. It’s served in three rounds, using two or three small glasses. The first round is strong and bitter, the second more sweet with a little mint, and the third is the sweetest with a powerful flavor of mint herb. It symbolizes ongoing bonds of friendship: The longer we’re together the sweeter it grows.

The Food:

Once Lady Day started sourcing from the Cyrildene Chinese market, Jhb, she began to connect her own Nguni food traditions to that of Asian ingredients and found many similarities and even more questions as to how each culture used those ingredients in their recipes. 

While Nguni food relies on the flavors of the ingredients themselves with not much flavor being introduced (salt goes a long way to flavor and enrich any dish). On the other hand, Asian food plays with flavor and temperature in order to char, seer and pack the ingredients with flavor. In this experiment Lady Day blurs the borders between the two cooking styles to introduce these cooking cultures into a new form on the plate. 

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