IN THE KITCHEN WITH Sauti SOL
”2014 has been a year full of ups and downs,”
announces Marek, the band’s manager,
as he gets up for a toast.
“It’s been a year of crazy hours and late nights,
of early mornings & missed flights.
But overall it’s been a good year.
May 2015 be even ten times better!”
So we contacted their publicist,
found a great photographer, located
a dream kitchen to use and were
set to go. Except somewhere down
the line there must have been some
miscommunication because, on the
night of the shoot, three out of four
of the band members, that would be
Bien Aime (the tall one), Chimano
(the baritone) and to a lesser extent
Polycarp (the guitarist), turned up
expecting to cook us dinner!
Who were we to point out their
error? If Sauti Sol wanted to cook for
the Yummy team we weren’t going
to try to stand in their way. That was
until they started turning the kitchen
upside down. Cooking up a storm
doesn’t come near to describing the
vigour and enthusiasm with which
they threw themselves into the
task ahead of them. Unfortunately
though, when it comes to Christmas
dinner, enthusiasm just isn’t enough.
When an hour into the dinner Delvin
(the one with the sixpack) turned up
laden with Champagne, we made an
executive decision to ease our own
chef into the proceedings and get
the boys back to doing one of the
things they do best: posing for the
camera.
And so it was. We got to do a
great cover shoot and material for
this feature; Sauti Sol got to distract
themselves from all the haute
cuisine restaurants they have been
forced to visit of late and let loose
in the kitchen and we all got to eat
a really tasty chicken, cooked by
someone who can tell a leg from a
breast (we’re talking about chickens
here, ok?)
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