IN LIVING COLOUR
WHAT DO YOU do when you’re a young, urban, newly married African woman (a.k.a. makoti) and are expected to live in your new parents-in-law’s home for a short period to demonstrate your domestic skills? In other words, to show them that you can take care of their son in the manner to which he is accustomed? More importantly, what do you do when cooking isn’t really your thing?
If your best friend happens to be Mogau Seshoene, you call her in for reinforcements and a crash course in all things culinary to save your bacon. And if you’re Mogau, you kick off a brand-new career. “I remember my just-married friend saying, ‘What if they think I’m a lazy ?’”. And so The Lazy Makoti cooking school was born. “I studied consumer science and was working at a big corporate at the time,” says Mogau. “But I grew up cooking with my mom and grandmother every Sunday after church. And my sister encouraged me to
