It's hard to top open-fire cooking when you're looking to prepare a meal worthy of an occasion. Loved ones gather around a ...

but South Africans are the kings of the braai (the South African word for barbecue). Philip Langenhoven, chairman of the Afrikaans club in Auckland, and friend Andre Joubert both say the braai is ...

The South African braai (“barbecue” in Afrikaans ... Lechon (Spanish for “suckling pig”) features a whole, impaled pig spit-roasted over a charcoal bed or in an oven.

and it’s one of the things that unifies all our different cultures because cooking outdoors is something that all the cultures in South Africa do in some way.” While braai is Afrikaans for ...