1. Any meat can be used to make biltong, but I prefer to use Venison, Elk or Beef. If using Beef, use a leaner and less expensive cut like a top round. Trim all fat from the meat before you cut your ...

Reporting from Cape Town, South Africa — I was warned that meals during my March trip to South Africa would revolve around red meat. But I didn’t know it would appear in a shriveled state similar to ...

It's not chicken feet. It's not krimmel pap. It's biltong. With our nine provinces and 12 official languages, South Africa is home to a chakalaka of food options ranging from spicy to downright ...

It’s the prosciutto of South Africa, it’s smuggled across the world’s borders, there’s a precise science to its making, and it’s the focus of a R2.5bn ...

When Victoria Machakaire came to Canada with her husband and two kids from South Africa over a decade ago, she assumed she would have no problem finding biltong, a cured beef or wild game staple from ...

I have a biltong guy now. And man, do I feel relieved about it. It’s a strange sense of relief, though. Mainly because I never knew I needed a biltong guy until my recent trip to Cape Town. See, when ...

For centuries, people have been drying and curing meat to preserve it. One result of that practice is jerky, the tasty, chewy snack that's typically reserved for camping and road trips. But don't ...

In 2015 Maxime Eon created BiltongBoard.com to link local lovers of biltong with the plethora of small producers whose quality products were going unnoticed. Two years - and over 100 biltong recipes - ...