Gather around the table
A few of our favourite food-trepeneurs share how they’ll be celebrating autumn’s religious days with their loved ones – plus the food and traditions that make each occasion as wondrous as the next
Faieez Alexander, better known as Fuzzy, found a love for koesister-making during lockdown – before promptly taking the Vannie Kaap Koesister King title.
Faieez with his wife, Faldielah, and daughter, Ammaarah
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THE CELEBRATION: EID AL-FITR (2-3 MAY) A typical Eid day starts the evening before, when you are sent from pillar to post to collect food items that were outsourced. In the morning, the men will go to the masjid (mosque) for prayer and a sermon, after which you’ll visit your parents. I also make the effort to visit the maqbara (graveyard) to say a prayer and place fresh flowers on the graves of deceased loved ones. Then you greet your immediate
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