Annabel Hughes Aston is an award-winning chef, organic gardener, forager and writer, who lives with her husband on a farm in the Zambezi Valley, upstream from Victoria Falls in Livingstone, Zambia. She is the creator of "bush gourmet" cuisine, developed while experimenting with, and fusing, wild edibles and indigenous Zambian ingredients with fresh local produce, mostly grown in her organic vegeta
ble garden. Annabel is a professional writer and a qualified chef. She also became a Virginia Master Naturalist while living in the United States. These qualifications led her to create the "bush gourmet" cuisine for which she won two awards after introducing it at The Elephant Café in Livingstone, including the Luxury Travel Guide Awards’ Boutique Restaurant of the Year for 2017 (Africa & Middle East) and Zambia’s Best New Restaurant in 2016. All material copyrighted to © Annabel Hughes Aston and SavannaBel, 2014-2023.
