A Table in the Corner

About A Table in the Corner

A Table in the Corner is the space where Russel Wasserfall chats to people in the food industry about their passion and their take on the business of eating. Russel has worked in the media and food space for over 3 decades. He's run bars, restaurants and a confectionery factory, written for dozens of food and travel publications and made a bunch of cookbooks. His show is about the nitty-gritty of the food trade in all its forms. Top chefs, food artisans, proprietors, bakers, farmers, foragers, cheesemakers, writers, photographers, bloggers... you name it. If they’re involved in the food industry, you will meet them with Russel at A Table in the Corner.

Publisher

Russel Wasserfall Media

Category

arts · arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Sept 2023

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

209 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026

   S3-02. Flour Market - David Donde

   In this episode of A Table in the Corner, I chat to David Donde, the entrepreneur behind Flour Market, a Cape Town bakery built around good ingredients, traditional methods and a commitment to making bread properly. David is best known for his contribution to the local specialty coffee scene through Origin Coffee and Truth Coffee, but Flour Market takes his interest in product quality into a different part of the food business. We talk about why David decided to open a bakery after enco...

2. 

   20 Oct 2026

   S3-01. Thirteen Ice Cream - Beran Cristini

   In this episode of A Table in the Corner, I chat to Bérengère Cristini, (Beran to her friends) founder of Thirteen Ice Cream, a Cape Town ice cream maker supplying restaurants, chefs and specialist food retailers. Originally from Burgundy, Beran trained as a chef in France, working in professional kitchens in Paris and Monaco before moving into pastry and food production. He came to Cape Town in 2013 and established the business that would become 13 Ice Cream, formerly known as Sorbetier.&nbs...

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   S2-54. Fynkos - Pamela Shippel-Granoth

   In this episode of A Table in the Corner, I chat to Pamela Shippel-Granoth, the cook, teacher and restaurateur behind Fynkos at Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town. Pamela has spent almost 50 years working with food, beginning with home cooking and small-scale catering before moving into cookery teaching, recipe development, radio and food writing. We trace her career from those early days through 12 years at Pick n Pay, where she ran cooking demonstrations and built a cookery school, to ...

Who has been a guest on A Table in the Corner

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dion Vengatass
• Lance Littlefield
• Christophe Dehosse
• Melanie Stewart
• Bertus Basson

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

14,713

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

32 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

80

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

71

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