Bio
Sarah Graham is a South African food writer and television personality best known for appearing in the SABC3 lifestyle cooking show Bitten – Sarah Graham Cooks Cape Town, based on her cookery book of the same name which was published in 2012.
Bitten won the Golden Horn for Best Variety and Lifestyle Show at the 2014 SAFTAs (South African Film and Television Awards) held in Johannesburg on Friday, 4 April, 2014.
She later starred in Sarah Graham's Food Safari, a follow-up series which aired on M-Net.
Sarah started her food blog, A Foodie Lives Here, in May 2010, followed by the release of Bitten by Struik Lifestyle in February 2012, the first cookbook by a South African food blogger to be published. Bitten was the only foodie book to be selected for the Exclusive Books Homebru promotion in 2012 and led to Sarah becoming a Food 24 contributor.
She has become a regular foodie speaker, demonstrator, recipe developer for brands like Mediterranean Deli and was a brand ambassador for Sea Harvest, representing them at the Good Food and Wine Shows in 2013.
Bitten was also a finalist in the French The Gourmand Awards in the Blogger Authors category.
Sarah's second book, Smitten, is a more grown-up version of Bitten with a greater emphasis on gourmet and was submitted to her publisher Struik.
Sarah grew up on a nature conservancy in Zimbabwe, hand-raising lions to be rehabilitated into the wild at the Antelope Park Lion Rehabilitation Project.
Growing up in a family that loved to camp, travel and celebrate being together through food, Sarah learned her grandmother and mother's recipes and developed a passion for working with ingredients that are locally and sustainably sourced.
Sarah went on to study at UCT and there met her husband Rob who is described as a "conscientious taster and eater" in the recipe "Why he married me Bacon Pasta", while Sarah claims to have married Robert for his brandy flambéed, gorgonzola and crushed pepper fillet (also in the book).
Sarah describes Rob as her legendary husband, a regular bloke in the sense that he loves food, rugby, fishing, beer, wine, all that blokey stuff. Plus he's her resident taster.
In her day job as co-founder of African Impact, Africa's largest voluntourism/gap year travel company, Sarah travels regularly and so her food is always for people who never seem to have enough minutes in every day.