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The key ingredient: cherries

From pie to cocktails, this month the Rural Cook celebrates cherry season in Currency’s series of ingredient-focused food columns

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What we’re drinking this week: Kanonkop Kadette Dry Pinotage Rosé

The Currency team never needs an excuse to load the fridge with bottles of rosé and settle in for a sunny afternoon of chilling, chats and our favourite pink drink, but here’s…

Labotessa Luxury Boutique Hotel

Get a room: Labotessa Luxury Boutique Hotel

The Currency team are connoisseurs of fine hotels. We’ve spent decades judging the softness of pillows, the friendliness of staff and the fillings in room service club…

Currency Assets Liabilities

Assets and liabilities: the October edition

From over-the-top business trips to Stanley Cups and TV comebacks, we rate what’s in and what’s out. Assets … Over-the-top business trips (and accountability to match) Going on a…

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What we’re drinking this week: Spier Field & Flutter

This week the Woolworth’s WCellar Buying team are introducing a new range of organic wines with a particularly lovely approach to the local fauna and flora. Our pick for this…

Red Room Chef Caroline Lamb

What the chef ordered: Caroline Lamb from The Red Room by Chefs Warehouse

Ever wondered what chefs want to eat on their own menus – and where they dine when they’re not the one doing the cooking? To launch a new series where we discover exactly this,…

Drink of the week

What we’re drinking this week: L’Ormarins Private Cuvée

In the first of a new series, we ask the Woolworths WCellar buying team what we should be having a glass or two of after a hard day at the office. To celebrate the launch of…

Currency Lisbon Guide Where to stay

Currency’s on-trend guide to visiting … Lisbon

We bet you’ve got friends who’ve recently come back from holidays in Lisbon and can’t stop gushing about the Portuguese capital. They might be insufferable, but they’re not wrong…

The trend you didn’t know you needed: fridgescaping

You’ve heard heard of landscaping, tablescaping, even manscaping – but what about the “scaping” that involves your trusty silver Hisense or wildly overpriced retro Smeg? Here’s…