Keeping Culture Alive in a Cross-Cultural Home Originally published in SAWITU Essentials Magazine | July/August 2025 This piece was first written for SAWITU Essentials, a digital magazine created by and for South African women living in the U.S. and Canada. I’m honored to contribute regularly to the publication, and this latest article is one that felt especially close to home. It’s a quiet reflection on the ways we try to keep culture alive in a cross-cultural household — not through ...
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Feature in SAWITU Essentials Magazine
Southern Protea: South African Culture in the American South I’m honored to have been featured in the Nov/Dec 2023 issue of SAWITU Essentials. This interview gave me a chance to share the heart behind Southern Protea—how it started, where the name came from, and why cake has always been more than just dessert in my world. We talked about my South African childhood, Tennessee home life, and how baking has become a way of weaving the two together. I also shared my go-to flavors (spoiler: ...
