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Tuck into these inspirational reads during your next holiday…
Chocolat by Stephan Lagorce (Hanmlyn, R250)
Packaged to delight and seduce, Chocolat is every bit as luscious as it looks. Remove the chocolate-coloured cover sleeve (designed as a chocolate wrapper) and you’re left with a silver-foiled “chocolate bar” in your hands.
Open it and you can virtually taste the 40 recipes inside through its lavish photography. This is, quite simply, the most visually striking and well-packaged book on chocolate ever published.
Share it with a chocoholic and you’ll be friends for life!
Recipe books
Looking for South African recipe books?
We have chosen three truly inspirational new titles that are guaranteed to spice up your holiday cooking menus:
Prickly pears & pomegranates by Bernadette le Roux (Quivertree R345),
Reuben Cooks: Food is time travel by Reuben Riffel and Sue de Groot (Quivertree, R345) and
Tortoises & Tumbleweeds by Lannice Snyman (Lannice Snyman Publishers , R325).
Each one unique and proudly South African, they make great gifts for guests – especially overseas visitors.
Treat yourself and buy all three for your own kitchen if you can – you’ll love their local flavour and will use them for years.
Interestingly, each of these books is based on a lifelong passion with tastes and flavours and the memories they evoke of childhood.
Bernadette le Roux and her mother, Marianne Palmer, both reflect on a way of life and cooking in the Karoo. Bernadette spent her childhood there and Marianne still lives on the Cranemere farm today. Together they have compiled recipes from six generations of women in the Palmer family.
In Reuben’s case, his family recipes have been passed down since they settled in Franschhoek in the early 1800s, while Lannice’s book takes us on a countrywide journey, celebrating the food she’s discovered along the way – as did her parents who set off on an 8550-mile car journey through Africa in the 1950s.
