Food & Home Entertaining

IN THE oil BUSINESS

The first time I meet Ken Kinsey-Quick, we’re chatting in his home office in the Western Cape Winelands. Dominating the wide desk are four vast computer screens spitting out a constant stream of graphs and figures from financial markets around the world. We’re chatting oil and futures. But for a change, they’re of the foodie – not the financial – kind.

After decades working in the global financial industry both in South Africa and abroad, Ken’s making a change. By the time you read this, chances are he’ll have hung up his investment hat to focus full-time on his new passion: chilli oil.

“When I was living in Paris, I loved the sachets of

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