{"id":4985,"date":"2019-06-25T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2019-06-25T02:09:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T02:09:28","slug":"finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2880\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo.jpg 2880w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo-1024x427.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2880px) 100vw, 2880px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a Wednesday in May, toward the end of lunch service at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wolfgat.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wolfgat Restaurant<\/a>, Rochelle Karolus bent over a wood countertop in the back kitchen, writing each table\u2019s bill out by hand. Karolus, who goes by Chelle (pronounced Sel or Sal in the local Afrikaans accent), has done this for Wolfgat\u2019s chef-patron Kobus van der Merwe for the past nine years. These handwritten bills are one of many singular touches at Wolfgat, the South African establishment named \u2018restaurant of the year\u2019 by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.restaurantawards.world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Restaurant Awards<\/a> in February. Karolus is, as van der Merwe describes her, \u201cthe head and heart of our kitchen, and mother of the family.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4989\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4989\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-5-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freshly washed Wolfgat cutlery waiting to be dried.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two hours drive from Cape Town in the town of Paternoster, Wolfgat is housed in a historic fisherman\u2019s cottage perched above the dunes of a long beach. Each morning, Karolus walks the ten minutes to work from her childhood home, which she currently shares with her mother and young son. She often arrives at Wolfgat early, to make bread and get ahead on prep. The vantage from the restaurant is idyllic. Small wooden boats move in and out of the crescent-shaped bay or are pulled up over the sand. One of the oldest fishing settlements on South Africa\u2019s West Coast, every building in Paternoster is whitewashed, with brightly-painted blue or red shutters reminiscent of postcards of Greece.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For a woman of color without a culinary school education, she has a rare level of responsibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Karolus heads a team of four, rarely misses a service, and typically works two double shifts a week. It is her responsibility to make sure the operation runs smoothly at Wolfgat, where there is no hierarchy of roles, nor distinction between front and back of house. Executing Wolfgat\u2019s uncontrived, naturalistic style alongside van der Merwe, she is, for all intents and purposes, an excellent Sous Chef as well as Front of House Manager. For a woman of color without a culinary school education, she has a rare level of responsibility \u2014\u00a0the fine-dining industry in South Africa is comprised, at the top, almost exclusively of white men.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4990\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4990\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4990\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-4-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A waiter tends to patrons at the seaside Wolfgat Restaurant.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Karolus began working with van der Merwe in 2010, first in the scullery and then as a waitress, he had just moved from Cape Town to Paternoster to run a small garden bistro a few blocks from where Wolfgat is now located. Karolus considered the job short-term, convenient in that it was close to home; her plan was to save for a computer course that would improve her job prospects. But when she had her son in 2012, she says she, \u201cForgot all about the CV and kept on working,&#8221; focusing on supporting her family. &#8220;And I don\u2019t have any regrets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To reach her senior position at what is now an international dining destination, Karolus had to master not only the necessary culinary and service skills, but also to relearn the landscape of her home in Paternoster. Wolfgat is what van der Merwe calls a \u2018Strandveld eatery,\u2019 a term he coined to reflect his exploration of the heritage and ecology of Paternoster\u2019s unique landscape. Strandveld, which translates to beach scrub, is the term for the area\u2019s endangered vegetation type. The restaurant\u2019s tasting menu is hyper-local and hyper-seasonal, focused on underutilized ingredients from the surrounding sea and veld: <em>samphire<\/em>, <em>klipkombers<\/em>, <em>veldkool<\/em>, limpet. Though Karolus\u2019s family roots in the area predate European colonization, much of what van der Merwe was foraging was new to her.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4991\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4991\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-6.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-6-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bowl of decorative abalone shells reflects the colors of the water outside.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some things Karolus recognised, like <em>soutslaai<\/em>, a luscious succulent indigenous to the Strandveld and now popular in fine-dining restaurants across Europe. As a child, she had played with the fleshy leaves, pretending they were lamb chops needing seasoning. But Karolus says she didn\u2019t know it was actually edible, and at first she was reluctant to try it. She remembers feeling incredulous: \u201cThis guy\u201d\u2014who wasn\u2019t even from the area\u2014\u201cshowing us in Paternoster that you don\u2019t just have to make a living to eat, or just have to eat out of the sea. You can actually live from the dunes.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4993\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4993\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staff prepare and plate Wolfgat&#8217;s dessert course.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now, nine years after an introduction to van der Merwe\u2019s methods, Karolus forages for the restaurant every week. She has come to love Strandveld food and the subtlety of how different elements combined \u201ctogether on a plate makes it so amazingly tasty.\u201d But her family and most of the fishing community in Paternoster have little interest in eating what grows in the veld. Instead, the community commutes ten miles to the nearest town, purchasing food from an array of multinational supermarkets and a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In post-apartheid South Africa, the work of white-supremacist legislation has been continued by market forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This dynamic belies the complexity of post-apartheid South Africa, where the work of white-supremacist legislation has been continued by market forces. In Paternoster, as fishing became less lucrative and legislation around small-scale fishing rights grew more complex in the early 2000s, the economic focus of the town shifted to tourism. The fisherman\u2019s village aesthetic, considered Paternoster\u2019s main attraction, is preserved by an official town building code, but the fishing community remains largely excluded from the benefits of development. Unemployment is high. In summer, scores of young men out of work stand at busy roadsides, hawking illegally-caught \u00a0crayfish to tourists. The holiday homes and guesthouses stacked up along the beachfront have pushed fishing families into low-value housing at the margins of town. In this context, the nutrition transition\u2014where traditional diets are supplanted by an aspirational Western diet high in fat, salt and sugar\u2014has burdened many in Paternoster\u2019s\u00a0fishing community with diet-related disease.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4992\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4992\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/sub-photo-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rochelle Karolus poses for a portrait in Wolfgat&#8217;s back kitchen, where it&#8217;s her responsibility to ensure the operation runs smoothly.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Karolus tells me, without hesitation, that she prefers Paternoster to any other place. \u201cI am honored to live here,\u201d she says. \u201cWhere everybody knows and cares about each other\u2014where it\u2019s still safe to walk at night.\u201d Exceeding her expectations, she has found herself in a position that allows her to work close to home and support her family. Sitting on the beach after Wednesday\u2019s lunch service, she remarks, \u201cI love what I\u2019m doing now.\u201d On whether she will still be working with van der Merwe at Wolfgat in another nine years, she says she doesn\u2019t know. Smiling, she adds, \u201cMaybe [van der Merwe] decides to get another restaurant. And I&#8217;ll be owning this one. We don\u2019t know. A girl can dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Jenny Willis is currently studying foodways and food systems in South Africa&#8217;s Western Cape, where she has worked with chef-supported initiatives for food systems transformation. Instagram <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jnrwillis\/\"><em>@jnrwillis<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Shaun Swingler is a photojournalist and filmmaker based in South Africa. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, VICE, TIME and others.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/shaunswingler.com\/\"><em>shaunswingler.com,<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shaunswingler\/\"><em>@shaunswingler<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a Wednesday in May, toward the end of lunch service at Wolfgat Restaurant, Rochelle Karolus bent over a wood countertop in the back kitchen, writing each table\u2019s bill out by hand. Karolus, who goes by Chelle (pronounced Sel or Sal in the local Afrikaans accent), has done this for Wolfgat\u2019s chef-patron Kobus van der [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,7,11],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agriculture","tag-business","tag-culinary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant - Good Food Jobs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant - Good Food Jobs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On a Wednesday in May, toward the end of lunch service at Wolfgat Restaurant, Rochelle Karolus bent over a wood countertop in the back kitchen, writing each table\u2019s bill out by hand. Karolus, who goes by Chelle (pronounced Sel or Sal in the local Afrikaans accent), has done this for Wolfgat\u2019s chef-patron Kobus van der [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Good Food Jobs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-25T11:00:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@goodfoodjobs\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@goodfoodjobs\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b63bc78244cb6f6ce6eadd4a2b21bc2d\"},\"headline\":\"Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-25T11:00:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1231,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/feature-photo.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"agriculture\",\"business\",\"culinary\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/\",\"name\":\"Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant - Good Food Jobs\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/feature-photo.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-25T11:00:11+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/feature-photo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/feature-photo.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Good Food Jobs\",\"description\":\"Good Food Jobs weblog\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Good Food Jobs\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/logo-gfj-v0.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/12\\\/logo-gfj-v0.png\",\"width\":112,\"height\":112,\"caption\":\"Good Food Jobs\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/goodfoodjobs\",\"http:\\\/\\\/instagram.com\\\/goodfoodjobs\",\"http:\\\/\\\/pinterest.com\\\/goodfoodjobs\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b63bc78244cb6f6ce6eadd4a2b21bc2d\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/08f0c17907816d01ae903ffa8215ad5accc71c73af9c7fae72f5d64b307c6ebe?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/08f0c17907816d01ae903ffa8215ad5accc71c73af9c7fae72f5d64b307c6ebe?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/08f0c17907816d01ae903ffa8215ad5accc71c73af9c7fae72f5d64b307c6ebe?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant - Good Food Jobs","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant - Good Food Jobs","og_description":"On a Wednesday in May, toward the end of lunch service at Wolfgat Restaurant, Rochelle Karolus bent over a wood countertop in the back kitchen, writing each table\u2019s bill out by hand. Karolus, who goes by Chelle (pronounced Sel or Sal in the local Afrikaans accent), has done this for Wolfgat\u2019s chef-patron Kobus van der [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/","og_site_name":"Good Food Jobs","article_published_time":"2019-06-25T11:00:11+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@goodfoodjobs","twitter_site":"@goodfoodjobs","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b63bc78244cb6f6ce6eadd4a2b21bc2d"},"headline":"Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant","datePublished":"2019-06-25T11:00:11+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/"},"wordCount":1231,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo.jpg","keywords":["agriculture","business","culinary"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/","url":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/","name":"Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant - Good Food Jobs","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo.jpg","datePublished":"2019-06-25T11:00:11+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/feature-photo.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/finding-herself-at-home-rochelle-karolus-and-wolfgat-restaurant\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Finding Herself at Home: Rochelle Karolus and Wolfgat Restaurant"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/","name":"Good Food Jobs","description":"Good Food Jobs weblog","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Good Food Jobs","url":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/logo-gfj-v0.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/logo-gfj-v0.png","width":112,"height":112,"caption":"Good Food Jobs"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/goodfoodjobs","http:\/\/instagram.com\/goodfoodjobs","http:\/\/pinterest.com\/goodfoodjobs"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/b63bc78244cb6f6ce6eadd4a2b21bc2d","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/08f0c17907816d01ae903ffa8215ad5accc71c73af9c7fae72f5d64b307c6ebe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/08f0c17907816d01ae903ffa8215ad5accc71c73af9c7fae72f5d64b307c6ebe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/08f0c17907816d01ae903ffa8215ad5accc71c73af9c7fae72f5d64b307c6ebe?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4995,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions\/4995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.goodfoodjobs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}