Chefs
Learn from people who actually cook for a living.
Every chef on Umami works in a real kitchen. Every recipe has fed real diners.
Lerato Dube
Baking & desserts
Pretoria
Pastry chef and TV baking judge, known for reinventing melktert and koeksisters.
Marco Visser
Seafood & coastal
Durban
West-Coast trained chef specialising in snoek, line fish and shellfish.
Nadia Parker
Cape Malay & spice
Cape Town
Bo-Kaap-born chef with a decade in Michelin-adjacent kitchens across London and Cape Town.
Thabo Mokoena
Braai & fire cooking
Johannesburg
Fourth-generation braai master who trained in Karoo restaurants before returning to teach the craft.