Come meet the girls.’ Aaron Menezes smiles proudly as he leads the way into Mukwa’s chicken coop, where a flock of egg-laying hens come trotting over. He scoops up one and strokes it while the rest gather around him, companionably pecking away at his red-laced vellies. (‘There’s your photo op,’ quips the woman next to me: ‘’n Hunk met ’n hoender.’) An integral part of the Mukwa River Lodge team in Zambia, Aaron is the chef and runs this picturesque riverside retreat together with the owners, the Rudge family, known for their Houghton boutique hotel The Residence, and Camp Ndlovu in the Waterberg.
The lodge’s menu is a true
