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25 Jul 2012
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Our August issue is all about celebrating strong, inspirational and pioneering women in all spheres, be they mountaineers or models. On page 142, we celebrate four women who are blazing their own trails through the male-dominated world of professional cooking.

On a chilly Cape Town morning, we met with Ashleigh Heeger of The Test Kitchen, Charlene Pretorius, executive chef for designer furniture chain Weylandts; Simone Rossouw, head chef of Babel at Babylonstoren and South Africa’s top chef, Margot Janse (who recently appeared as a judge on Masterchef South Africa), to take them out of their chefs’ whites and comfort zones. Fashion editor Asanda Sizani dressed each in couture gowns, an unfamiliar sight in a kitchen, never mind one of the industrial kitchens at The Silwood Kitchen School of Cookery in Rondebosch, which is normally full of young student chefs.

Silwood School of Cookery is South Africa’s oldest cookery school, founded in 1964, and its students have been making names for themselves from the start. Ashleigh, who is also the only female chef in Luke Dale Roberts’ The Test Kitchen in Cape Town, happens to be a Silwood graduate. The school’s kitchens serve as classrooms for the trainee chefs doing full and part-time courses as well as venues for team building events and basic cooking classes for anyone who’d like to learn. They can now add ‘ELLE shoot location’ to that list as the kitchen provided the perfect backdrop for our shoot.

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To find out more about The Silwood School of Cookery, visit their website, 021 686 4894/5 or email cooking@silwood.co.za

Want to see the school for yourself? Pop in at Silwood Kitchen, Silwood Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town.

But first, here’s a look at what went down on shoot day.

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Photographs: Supplied and Duane Howard

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