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For Chef Lentswe Bhengu, it’s been a journey to become a culinary master.
Born and raised in KwaZulu Natal, Lentswe has always expressed a keen interest in food and dining since his early teens. Lentswe spent five years in the investment finance industry.
In 2010, Lentswe exchanged his suit and tie for a chef jacket when he enrolled at the prestigious The Culinary Academy in the Cape Winelands. He graduated as a professional chef underwritten by City & Guilds. He worked his way up in the food industry by working at fine dining restaurants like the Savoy Cabbage, The Roundhouse Restaurant, Saucisse Deli and a number of catering companies around Cape Town & Durban.
His business experience and ability to engage well with a crowd encouraged him to start a local film and media production house called Green Zebra Productions. Together with his business partner, they produced South Africa’s first food web series, ‘Africa on a Plate’, Lentswe provided all online food content – weekly recipes, videos and blogs for the site. Since then, Lentswe has presented a local television cooking show for DSTV’s SowetoTV, called “Kasi Kitchen” sponsored by Spekko, which is currently airing since February 2014.
In 2014, Green Zebra Production was commissioned to produce a television version of “Africa on a Plate” for US Network, The Africa Channel, this is a fully commissioned 14-part Travel and Cooking Series, which is currently airing in the U.S since July 18th 2014.
Additionally, Lentswe has appeared regularly on SABC3’s Expresso as a guest chef. He is a regular MC and Chef at food festivals, events and expo’s, with his most recent being the host and chef of the “Extreme Nutrition Theatre” at the Good Food and Wine Show in Durban.
