10 minutes
with local taste makers
Kimberley Krieger
B
ack at Olivia’s Kitchen for my second visit in a week and I’m beginning to understand the appeal. This time, however, I’m seated on a plush leather couch with a regular. Kimberley Krieger is on a first-name basis with the waiting staff and Olivia’s is her playground. Go figure, since the twentytwo-year-old blonde bombshell is an interactive health and nutrition coach and the menu here is any foodie’s dream. She’s small in stature, small as in tiny. But as the saying goes: dynamite comes in small packages. Kimberley is merely a year older than myself but in her midst I feel like I am in Little League – despite towering over her in height. She’s not only gained experience working in digital marketing but also completed a cookery course and has become a qualified nutrition coach – the full package of a health tastemaker.
are high. But with three semi-domesticated giraffes and Kim in the kitchen, they’ve managed to not only keep up, but flourish in the wavering economy. For a foodie such as herself, the greatest reward is seeing her impeccably thought-out recipes and execution thereof put smiles on guests’ faces.
She is not another yuppy vegetarian preaching that a lifestyle of zero meat consumption is the beall and end-all. In fact, having gone vegan full-on for five years and suffering serious She is not consequences, Kim approaches her nutrition another yuppy coaching with an all-round view. She takes into consideration the factors that many a vegetarian meat-nay-sayer neglects – lifestyle, budget, group and occupation. You see, it’s preaching that blood easy to coach and coax clients into a onesize-fits-all quick fix, but Kimberley chooses a lifestyle of to design sustainable lifestyle solutions zero meat rather than cut-throat diets that – as we all consumption is know – don’t last.
Major props go to individuals such as herself the be-all and In her IGTV videos, Kimberley shares who not only know what to cook but how to cook it and then – on top of it all – make it look spectacular and scrumptious step by step end-all. damn pretty in the digital space. A quick look tutorials. And if you thought that the skill at her Instagram (@kimberleykrieger) and of assembling avocado roses is reserved for you immediately gather that she’s a serial influencers and vegans, you are mistaken. perfectionist. Kim has managed to pull off the impossible She simplifies the recipes we drool over, making all of her (or, at least, extremely difficult) feat of maintaining a ±4k followers bonafide badasses in the kitchen. Be right colour-coded, cohesive content spread while still serving back – I’m baking her marbled banana bread. sufficient, superior recipes and wholesome selfies. Charene Labuschagne Her family owns and runs the wildly successful Guesthouse Voigtland. Being the 5th generation to do so, the stakes 23
