Jane's Delicious
Urban Garden:
Sustainable City
Living
Jane Giffiths
Sunbird • 978 1 9202 8987 4
Most of us these days, anywhere
in the world including Africa, are
city dwellers (though we may call
'home' somewhere in the country).
So, many of us are living in urban
conditions not, apparently, suitable
for home gardening as once was
routine. Jane Griffiths, whose bestselling Jane's Delicious Garden
has inspired so many to try their
hand at growing edibles in their
own gardens again, has taken the
next logic step in providing this
lovely coffee-table book which
also double-times as a handbook
on exactly how to utilise whatever
space you have, no matter how
small, to produce delicious edible
things that are filled with nutrition
and goodness – and grown by
your own hands. It's nearly as
satisfying just paging through this
lovely book as it is to eat the food
it is encouraging us each to grow
ourselves.
World Atlas of
Food
Recipes by Jenny Morris;
text by Marielle Renssen
Map Studio • 978 1 7702 6699 5
Wow, this is truly a mammoth
undertaking – an atlas of the world's
food, no less. This coffee-table
book is nearly as big as the topic
it takes on. Listing foods by region
and then country, these two foodies
provide us with maps to which
country's cuisine is being looked
at, giving a leading dish's recipe
and picture thereof, plus other
traditional dishes (briefly described)
and traditional drinks (also briefly
described) as well as an overview
of the country itself from which
these traditional foods and drinks
have come. Beautifully laid out, the
amount of work involved must have
been huge. A great addition to any
foodie's collection.
Tasha
Natasha Sideris
Jonathan Ball Publishers
978 1 8684 2266 1
In this, her first cookbook, local
restaurateur Natash Sideris provides
a beautiful coffee-table style book
of her favourite recipes. Folllwing
the success of her first restaurant,
started in Atholl, Johannesburg in
2005, Sideris has partnered with
Famous Brands and gone on since
2008 to open themed restaurants
across the country and most lately
in Dubai, each with their own
inspirational cuisine style. This is
a lovely hardcover book with soft
pastel-style pictures showing her
food – and some other images that
hint at the 'flavour' of her eateries
– along with the recipes necessary
to produce each mouthwatering
offering. A must-have for every
foodie.
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