It’s late January 2025, and we hope you have entered gently into the new year. For our first podcast of the year, we bring you Wanted Beauty, with our Beauty editor Noks Thusi and Mathahle Stofile, our beauty contributor. This episode was recorded in early December 2024, as we officially entered summer and brings you all the seasonal product recommendations and ingenuous hacks you need for the best summer skin. As always, the chat is as entertaining as it is informative, enjoy.
Please look out for our first print issue next Friday, February 7, all about renewal, rebirth and all things new. With this issue we present a refreshed Wanted, with some editorial and design tweaks to go with the sense of newness. We trust you will enjoy.
Remember to log onto wantedonline.co.za daily and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and X @wantedonlinesa. This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple and Iono.
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Celebrating Savoir-faire
In this episode of the Wanted Podcast, our editor Siphiwe Mpye speaks to Sibylle Scherer, President and CEO of Moët & Chandon.
Scherer was in South Africa recently to celebrate Champagne Day with special dinner in collaboration with fashion designer Thebe Magugu. Magugu visited the brand home in Epernay, France and returned inspired to create a one off masterpiece at the intersection of couture and ready to wear.
In this conversation Scherer shares the Moët & Chandon philosophy, talking Savoir-faire, craftsmanship, heritage and sustainability.
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Global luxury trends and Wanted at 20.
In this episode of the Wanted Podcast, our editor Siphiwe Mpye introduces Business Manager Celeste Khumalo. They chat about global luxury trends, the Financial Times Business of Luxury Conference and what’s on the horizon for Wanted, as the title celebrates its 20th anniversary. Remember to visit us daily at wantesonline.co.ca and follow us @wantedonlinesa on the socials.
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Skin Food: Are you feeding your skin the right ingredients?
In this episode of Wanted Beauty, on the Wanted Podcast, “you are what you eat” takes on whole new meaning. We present the most buzzworthy ingredients to incorporate into your diet and skincare - from turmeric to ingestible collagen. WANTED Beauty is presented by Mathahle Stofile and Nokubonga Thusi. It sees the two beauty editors in unfiltered conversation about Beauty and Wellbeing - including trends, products they love, useful tips and interviews with industry experts and other intriguing guests.
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Wanted Food - Steve Steinfeld aka The Joburg Foodie
Our editor Siphiwe Mpye speaks to Wanted Food columnist, Steve Steinfeld. Steinfeld, or The Joburg Foodie, as many will know him, writes our ‘Hot Seat’ column, reviewing the very best restaurants in South Africa and the world. In our July Issue, Steinfeld wrote about a pilgrimage to Modena, Italy, to interview Canadian Chef Jessica Rosval. Rosval is head chef at Al Gatto Verde, a restaurant at Casa Maria Luigia, Chef Massimo Bottura’s s three-Michelin-key boutique hotel set, in the Modena countryside.
In this episode, you’ll hear about Rosval, Al Gatto Verde’s unique dishes cooked on fire, sustainability and how the sense of family or community in Bottura’s universe shines through. Steve also speaks about another Rosval project, Roots restaurant. A self-sustaining social initiative that welcomes migrant women from all over the world and imparts culinary and operational skills that equip them with the tools to find employment or open their establishments.
Later in the chat, he explores trends in the South African culinary scene – from the slowdown in new restaurant openings at the beginning of the year and social initiatives by local chefs; to the increasing Africanisation of menus and what we can expect from him in the next while.
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