{"id":576,"date":"2015-07-07T20:51:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=576"},"modified":"2015-07-07T20:51:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T18:51:47","slug":"get-your-village-greens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"Get your village greens"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-580\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/selina-white.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-580 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/selina-white-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"selina white\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Village Green director Selina White and Amy Carolus .<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grub is an art. \u00a0Sometimes it&#8217;s just grubby.<\/p>\n<p>But Village Green seems to be going somewhere new this year.<\/p>\n<p>Diversity has arrived and there&#8217;s definitely an emphasis on more fresh, green stuff. <!--more-->My spring roll (I lie, my daughter&#8217;s spring roll which I finished off) had a sprig of bright broccoli poking out of \u00a0a lot of veg, and was actually crunchy.<\/p>\n<p>I cheated on my old neighbour Kaiser&#8217;s Kartoffels latkas after many years of loyalty, and tried a new arrival which was OK (Kaiser you win), and on to a gluten-free sweet potato chick-pea cake, and a hangover fresh juice from the Rasta stall run by an American with warm smile.<\/p>\n<p>I forked out R50 for a slow-roasted pulled-pork shoulder burger with great sauce and fresh bun.<\/p>\n<p>Can we get some more chairs at the food stalls?<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t rate the dry wors &#8211; tasted like dry lizard, \u00a0but Naartjie Moss&#8217;s freshly squeezed juice was a wonderful palate cleanser.<\/p>\n<p>Then home to doss. Burp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grub is an art. \u00a0Sometimes it&#8217;s just grubby. But Village Green seems to be going somewhere new this year. Diversity has arrived and there&#8217;s definitely an emphasis on more fresh, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/?p=576\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[262,894],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecritter.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}