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This 2nd part of my #TravelWithMrDFood series features one of South Africa’s most loved Chefs, Lesego Semenya, fondly know. As Les Da Chef. Lesego and I chat about his love for travel, how he finds the best food spots during trips, what’s on his food travel bucket list and more. This episode is proudly sponsored by @MrDFood - the joy of food delivered. Please share your thoughts on this interview with me on social media and tag me on @chicatravelpodcast / @mslelob and #TravelWithMrDFood.
This 2nd part of my #TravelWithMrDFood series features one of South Africa’s most loved Chefs, Lesego Semenya, fondly know. As Les Da Chef. Lesego and I chat about his love for travel, how he finds the best food spots during trips, what’s on his food travel bucket list and more. This episode is proudly sponsored by @MrDFood - the joy of food delivered. Please share your thoughts on this interview with me on social media and tag me on @chicatravelpodcast / @mslelob and #TravelWithMrDFood.
This 2nd part of my #TravelWithMrDFood series features one of South Africa’s most loved Chefs, Lesego Semenya, fondly know. As Les Da Chef. Lesego and I chat about his love for travel, how he finds the best food spots during trips, what’s on his food travel bucket list and more. This episode is proudly sponsored by @MrDFood - the joy of food delivered. Please share your thoughts on this interview with me on social media and tag me on @chicatravelpodcast / @mslelob and #TravelWithMrDFood.
Celebrity chef Lesego Semenya is one of South Africa's most recognisable black faces in a fine dining industry still dominated by white personalities. Growing up in Soweto at the end of apartheid Lesego was one of the first wave of black children who got bussed to school in white areas and says this gave him the skills to operate in both worlds as an adult. He tells Andile Masuku how a game show, a pie and keeping it real has been key to his success and why he's on a mission to take the snobbery out of the haute cuisine kitchen. Lesego has written a book called 'Dijo', which means food. Image: Lesego Semenya Credit: Claire Gunn/Jacana Media
In this instalment of #AndilesTake, I catch up with my mate, Chef Lesego Semenya, a year and a half or so after he first shared the vision for his LesDaChef fine dining brand with me. I'm fascinated by the level of focus and intentionality this Soweto-native, and Prue Leith Chefs Academy graduate in Centurion brings to his culinary hustle, and I take great pleasure in celebrating the fact that since we last spoke on mic, Les has been named one of the Mail & Guardian’s Top 200 Young South Africans, dubbed a rising star by House & Leisure, appointed consulting chef to a number of leading luxury gourmet food and drink brands, recruited as resident culinary expert at a handful of South Africa’s leading radio stations and tv networks, extended his reach on social media and now serves as a judge on SABC 3’s prime time tv show, Top Chef South Africa. That said, I consider his greatest achievement to be the fact that despite all the success he's enjoyed, Les remains as genuine and down-to earth as when I first met him at a killer gourmet home cook-out he hosted six odd years ago. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Lesego Semenya shares some of the pros and cons of a career as a chef, in addition to his new role as a judge on Top Chef SA.
CliffCentral.com — Aspasia Karras is back from France, she catches Mabale up on all her gallivanting. Then they speak with two South Africans who both have a story to tell about what it takes to become successful. Celebrity chef Lesego Semenya has catered for The British High Commission and Liverpool FC, whereas Sarah Jane Nicholson built her company from the ground up and now she manages some of SA's most successful musicians including MiCasa, Goodluck and Nonki Phiri.