Ten Things
So, we're now less than two months away from The Creamery's first birthday, and it's making me reflect on our first year in business. Now, there's generally very little time…
The fortnight in Photos
The best laid plans of bloggers... today we've got a fortnight in photos, not a week in photos, but all the more behind the scenes shenanigans to share with you.…
What We Did On Our Holidays
We've been back one month now from our first-ever two week annual shutdown. Did you miss us? We missed you, and The Creamery. All our staff (and several of our…
Saying Farewell
Two weeks ago, Oded Schwartz passed away after a long battle with cancer. He was the co-owner of Oded's Kitchen in Woodstock, one of our favourite fellow food businesses in…
The Week in Photos
OK, we're trying something new; an informal, behind-the-scenes glance at life at Creamery HQ, as frequently as we can manage it. Some of it has to do with ice cream,…
Happy Birthday, Abi!
On our first day back from our winter holiday, we eased into work mode with a birthday lunch for Abi. She turned 21 in early July, while we were all…
Winter Shut Down 2012
After dealing with several unexpected and deeply undesired shutdowns earlier this year, it feels funny winding down into our first-ever planned shutdown. We're taking two weeks off, so all our…
Development Week
One of the questions we get asked all the time is, how many flavours do you make? People are always amazed that we don't have a definitive flavour list or…
Around The Kitchen: Signs and Scribbles
I take a lot of photos of random things I see at Creamery HQ. While trying to sort through my 'random photos' file last week, I realized that a lot…
Graceless Under Fire
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.” -Jean Kerr Marianne and I deal with stress…
We’re Hiring (again!)
We are looking for new scoop staff for two positions: Our pop up shop in Kalkbay Our Cape Town market stalls For Kalkbay: Shifts are from 11.00-18.00, in Kalkbay You…
Harmony in the Kitchen
We're excited to welcome a new member to The Creamery team: Harmony. Harmony will be joining Progress in the kitchen, to help us increase our ice cream production. He brings…
Down But Not Out
There is very little as sad as an ice cream production kitchen with no churn. Except perhaps the ice cream makers. After last week's post on things not going our…
At Clarke’s
To celebrate Progress's birthday, we had our first staff lunch out last week. We chose to go to Clarke's on Bree Street, because we've been hearing how good their cheeseburgers…
Brownie Points
I showed Progress how to bake brownies today. Actually, it sort of started out as a lesson in brownie baking, segued into a lecture on the history of the ice…