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When the<br />
food bug bites<br />
His first love was music … until he started cooking for his sister<br />
who had an eating disorder. We chat to Benoni’s Tyrone Kleynhans<br />
about his journey from DJ to head chef.<br />
t the age of 13, Tyrone moved<br />
to Canada with his family.<br />
After school he went into<br />
music production and<br />
became a DJ. He pursued<br />
his music career for six<br />
years. Although music<br />
was his first love, he<br />
felt unfulfilled.<br />
“By the time I was 25 years old, I felt lost<br />
and was desperate to find something<br />
meaningful and fulfilling to do with<br />
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my life,” he recalls. The penny dropped<br />
when he decided to help his sister<br />
to overcome her eating disorder. He<br />
started cooking for her and, to make it<br />
fun, he cooked a dish from a country of<br />
his sister’s choice every day … his sister<br />
made a full recovery and he knew which<br />
career he wanted to pursue.<br />
“Through this experience I created a<br />
deep comfort and a sense of calm with<br />
cooking, and I found that while I was<br />
helping her it was really helping me,<br />
too,” Tyrone explains.<br />
By that stage he was 25 years old and<br />
had an urge to return to South Africa.<br />
“I jumped on the computer and started<br />
looking at culinary schools in South<br />
Africa and decided to study at Capsicum<br />
Culinary Studio’s Boksburg campus.”<br />
Tyrone came home in 2013 and began<br />
his studies at Capsicum in 2014. He<br />
graduated in 2015. “I received a great<br />
education, learned a lot about food,<br />
worked at some incredible places<br />
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