Breaking Eggs with Seth Shezi - The Business Of African Fashion with Modupe Oloruntoba: We touch on her upbringing, African Fashion and the fallacy of sustainable fashion

The Business Of African Fashion with Modupe Oloruntoba: We touch on her upbringing, African Fashion and the fallacy of sustainable fashion

10/06/22 • 53 min

Welcome to this week's episode of Breaking Eggs with Seth Shezi. I'm Seth Shezi, (@seth_shezi on IG & YouTube) join me every week as I crack open the lives and achievements of some very special guests around the five golden pillars of a good life: wellness, wealth, love, mindset, and impact. Through these unscripted chats, I look to uncover untold stories, answer a lot of my own questions and leave you with better questions to ask about your own life.
Today's unscripted conversation is with the highly regarded freelance writer and editor of African fashion Weekly, Modupe Oloruntoba, we cover everything from her upbringing in Lesotho, Yoruba family values, her pragmatic views on the future of African Fashion and the dissonance between what fashion aspires to be vs the unglamourous behind the scenes. She is the most knowledgeable person I know on the subject and I couldn't have thought of a better time for the release of this episode than right now as we mark the end of the fashion week cycle. Let's break

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Chef Ryan Cole: Part 2: An Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential level of Unfiltered Recount of the gritty reality behind Fine Dining

WELCOME TO PART 2
This week’s guest marks the first of a very long line-up of top chefs I have the honour to sit down with and just shoot the sh*t. The series will include South Africa's top chefs, some international Michelin & World50Best honorees. we kick off with one of my favourite chefs, a unique talent who has a gleaming track record and is consistently heralded as one of the most intelligent chefs cooking today. Chef Ryan Cole was once known as the Head Chef of the famous The Test Kitchen that played a hand in putting South African cuisine on the global culinary map is now a bonafide name in his own right. Since the days at 'Test', Ryan has gone to open his own restaurant, Salsify at The Roundhouse where he continued his streak by taking his new spot to the top 10 restaurant list in the country in its first year of operation. We chat about everything that came before the celebrated top chef he is today. Let's break!

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Chef Luke Dale-Roberts: The journey behind Africa's most awarded chef, ambition, highs, lows and mental wellbeing

Luke Dale-Roberts needs no introduction, he's a world-renowned top chef who's taken the culinary scene by storm from the time he ventured into Asia to expand his palette right to when he moved to South Africa, taking La Colombe to new heights - getting the restaurant to rank on the global World's 50 Best within 2 years. Armed with a gleaming resume, he set off to open his own venture: enter The Test Kitchen, this was the era that propelled Dale-Roberts to meteoric success - from notching 12th on the World's 50 Best Restaurant Awards, to a six-year reign atop the Eat Out restaurant awards list (aka South Africa's restaurant Oscars), resulting in a slew of haunts he opened off the back of his success. The Shortmarket Club, TTK Fledgling, the newly opened The Test Kitchen Carbon in Joburg as well as the award-winning, The Pot Luck Club. He is heralded by the industry as one of the stalwarts and has single-handedly sprouted and inspired his own new generation of top chefs. Armed with an even firmer dedication to fitness and mental well-being, Dale-Roberts is showing no signs of slowing down as he gears up to open a new spot this festive season.
Welcome to Breaking Eggs with Seth Shezi. I'm Seth Shezi, (@seth_shezi on IG & YouTube) join me every week as I crack open the lives and achievements of some very special guests around the five golden pillars of a good life: wellness, wealth, love, mindset, and impact. Through these unscripted chats, I look to uncover untold stories, answer a lot of my own questions and leave you with better questions to ask about your own life. Let's break!

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