Magdaleen van Wyk
Auteur van The Complete South African Cookbook
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Kook Suid-Afrikaans 1 exemplaar
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1942-07-15
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- South Africa
- Geboorteplaats
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Opleiding
- University of Stellenbosch
- Beroepen
- Academic
Leden
Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 11
- Leden
- 76
- Populariteit
- #233,522
- Waardering
- 4.0
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 23
- Talen
- 1
Expect traditional South African cooking the way your grandmother’s housekeeper used to do it, when the old “Blue Book” was the kitchen Bible.
You won’t find exotic dishes like giraffe carpaccio or snoek sashimi; forget about fat-free this or carb-free that, about steaming and grilling — our national cuisine is rich, tasty and calorific, saturated in carbohydrates, fats, spices and sugar.
Ideal for both the amateur cook and the professional, the book takes nothing for granted: it includes all the basic recipes for sauces, stocks and pastry, then explains how to combine these into — for example — a cream of waterblommetjie soup. Bredies, biryanis and boboties are covered, together with brief notes about their history, and usual accompaniments.
For the most part, South African dishes are an enticing and unusual collaboration of Eastern fusion with German carnal innovations, married to Victorian excellence. In a word: Yum.… (meer)