Uncontested burst of indigenous flavors. To provide you and your loved ones with wholesome, authentic products that are not only good for you, the environment and mother earth, but products that will nourish you to the core from the inside out. My vision is to create organic super foods packed with scrumptious wholesomeness and that perfect homemade touch we all can't resist.
Through my expertise in medicine, I create and produces food that are linked to the recovery, replenishment and for revitalization of thousands of years old African indigenous knowledge.
Having previously struggled with obesity, I became more cognizant of the need for and the nutritional rewards linked to adopting a healthier eating lifestyle. Medicines are essential, but they generally deal with a symptom not a root cause. You cannot expect a drug to cure a problematic lifestyle on its own. When the long-term impact of the way we have lived has made us ill, lifestyle changes, including dietary changes, need to be part of the treatment approach. Ancient African ingredients have many health-giving properties with a role to play in such change.
I see traditional ways of processing food that are explained in terms of taste that I can also apply medically. For instance, from textbooks, I learnt the nutritional benefits of sprouting sorghum, the Niani people in Venda, South Africa, have taught me that they always sprouted to make the grain taste sweeter. Many ancient food techniques have the health elements built into the food culture. When I see such tings being undertaken in context, it makes my medical and nutritional knowledge come alive for me. Things that I thought were foreign now feel very familiar.
Dr. Tracy Nelwamondo is the owner of Modern Traditions and Malie’s Ice Cream.
There’s no denying that you are the expert when it comes to understanding indigenous foods and ingredients, but is there one ingredient or item that you’re particularly proud of? - Jess Spiro (Source)
Expert, I love that! I am constantly needing to learn more from people around me and the communities we engage with, so to enable me to completely immerse myself in the indigenous experience. My favourite ingredient would be the marula nut. It comes from such a humble giant of a tree and the harvesting process is so labour intense but always done as an expression of love, when we finally get the product I’m so proud. Then there’s the ice cream it makes – oh my! The creamiest, smoothest of all my creations, and of course the fact that its inspired by my forever muse, Malibongwe (aka Malie's). It's a combination of a mother's love for her first born, and at the same time, connecting a little man to his indigenous roots in the sweetest way possible.
Dr. Tracy Nelwamondo
