Marna trained at Warwick Chef School in Hermanus, started out as a commis-chef at Bluegum Country Estate near Stanford, and went on to run the kitchen as head chef at Kleinbosch Guest Estate in Paarl.
Fifteen years of service taught her what a recipe needs to survive a real kitchen — and eventually, that the only way to write them down properly was to leave. Everything here is cooked in her own Cape Town kitchen first. Her husband Iwan tastes it before anyone else does. Benji is usually next.